exporting selected account subtree

[Derek Atkins]

At this point in time there's no way to do that.  Nor is there a way to
import into an existing CoA.

Neil Williams is working on this kind of problem.

-derek

TMaynard <rustym at main.nc.us> writes:

> Hello list,
>    I new to the enjoyment of gnucash and have a question about exporting
>  transactions specific accounts (from a portion of one chart of accounts)
> into another chart of accounts.   The export command seems intended to
> export an entire file or COA  ...not for exporting a partial selection of
> accounts from a COA.
>
>    In cases where gnucash is used separately for a business and for
> personal accounts it is simple to setup a placeholder account and
> subaccounts that capture business related  expenses which occur/flow
> through the accounts of the personal COA. In this case , the personal COA
> can contain a subtree of accounts identical to the business COA categories
> (at least for those  categories that actually occur). It would be
> preferrable to export only that placeholder subtree of account transactions
> to be then imported into the business COA. I do not find a tool for
> exporting just a subtree of accounts  into a file that can be imported into
> another COA. Is there an undocumented method?
>
> Gnu cash has been good, and this would be another plus
> Rusty
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