Matching two halves of a transfer between accounts.

[Daniel Holt]

I've searched the lists to see if there is a way to do what I'd like, and
nothing seems to quite match - except for hints that maybe it' not
possible.  Apologies if I've missed something relevant previously posted, I
may be ignoring an existing topic due to ignorance. I'm trying to set up
Gnucash for the first time.

I pay my credit card by electronic transfer from my current account. Both my
credit card and current account transactions are available from my bank as
OFX files, so I have downloaded these and loaded them to Gnucash.  My
problem is that my payment appears as two unbalanced transactions, one in
the current account and one in the credit card account. I cannot find a way
to specify that these two transactions match and reconcile to each other.
Everything I try appears to produce an extra entry in one account or the
other.

The best practical work-around I can find so far is to exclude the payment
transaction from the credit card import, then assign the payment from my
current account to my credit card account so the payment only appears once
in the credit card account as a balanced transaction.  As this is only one
transaction to exclude once a month it's not too onerous, but it seems a
shame to discard one half of the transaction when I do in fact have both
parts electronically already.

>From what I have seen on the lists, it looks as if if there is no way to
force Gnucash to marry these two halves of the same transaction up if it
hasn't already done so based on information in the OFX file.  Or have I
missed something?
Thanks,

Daniel