Is there any way to copy an account sub-hierarchy?

[Derek Atkins]

You could define a new Example Account hierarchy that contains
the sub-hierarchies and then you can use File -> New -> New Account
Hierarchy to add it to the tree (and then rename the base accounts,
obviously.

-derek

Quoting Douglas Mandell <Douglas at toast-enterprises.com>:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm setting up GnuCash to manage my rental properties, and each property
> has two account sub-hierarchies associated with it, an asset and a cash
> flow.  The asset part contains things like the purchase price, mortgage
> loans, and unrealized gain, and the cash flow part contains all income,
> expenses, and financing costs.  So far, I haven't found any way to build
> a template of these sub-hierarchies that I can duplicate and rename; I
> have had to create every sub-account manually.  Am I missing something?
> If I'm not missing something, the GnuCash certainly *is*.  It seems to
> me that adding this capability would make a good program even better.
>
> Maybe if my rentals do well enough, I'll be able to quit my day job
> (programming) and add this feature myself...
>
> --Douglas Mandell
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