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

[Douglas Mandell]

Hello Derek,

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Once I figured out how to make an Example Account hierarchy (by hacking the XML
of an exported account to make it match the other examples) I got it to work!

Is there another way of making these example accounts besides editing the XML?
If not, this may be something to add for the future.

Thanks!

--Douglas Mandell

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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