Almost duplicate transactions
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Feb 22 19:53:31 CST 2004
Chris Roat <croat at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting out with 1.8.8
>
> I import two different accounts (using either QIF or OFX) that
> have a transfer between them. Thus, there are two transactions
> imported that have an identical date and amount... one being a
> credit, the other debit. Gnucash doesn't seem to recognize them
> as the same, and each gets it's 2nd entry in the "unspecified"
> account. Quadruple-entry booking is new to me. :)
"unspecified" implies that you did not supply a correct "destination
account" for the transactions. Fix that.
> As far as I can tell, this must be because the entry's
> descriptions are different: "TRANSFER IN" vs. "TRANSFER OUT".
> Is there a way to loosen the criteria for duplicate
> transactions? Or is there an after-import mechanism to sort
> this out?
Nope. You just need to map them properly so they point back to each
other.
> Thanks for any help,
> Chris
-derek
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