Newbie starting out - need help in automatically assigning transactions to accounts

[mfrancetic]

Does this functionality work with OFX DirectConnect?  The account mapping
seems to work for me when importing a file.  But via OFX DirectConnect every
transaction is always "New, Unbalanced".  I do have Bayesian Matching
enabled ... enabling/disabling this doesn't seem to change anything for me
where OFX DirectConnect is concerned. 


Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dani Flexer <gnucash at daniflexer.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I have just begun using GnuCash. Apologies if my terminology is not up
>> to scratch.
>>
>> - I am looking to automate the process of getting a lot of historic
>> information from my bank and credit card accounts into the system so
>> that I will be able to do some backward-analysis for planning
>> purposes.
>>
>> - I would like all of the transactions that I download from my bank
>> (in OFX or CVS) to be processed semi-automatically and be assigned to
>> the appropriate credit and debit accounts  based on their comment
>> field.
>>
>> - About 80% of my transaction are with a set of maybe 20 or suppliers
>> who can all be pre-assigned to specific expense accounts, based on the
>> COMMENT field. (E.g., "Joe's Grocery" is always a food expense).
>>
>> - Have not been able to find a way to do this from within GnuCash,
>> nor, for that matter, by pre-processing my information.
>>
>> - I would have thought this is a common requirement, so I suspect I
>> have not been looking in the right place.
>>
>> I would appreciate advice on the way to do this.
> 
> * Turn on Bayesian Matching in the OFX Importer.
> * Import a small subset of your data, but make sure you include at least
>   one transaction of each type you want auto-assigned.
> * Make sure you assign the accounts properly in the importer.
> * Complete the import process for the subset
> * Verify the results
> * Save
> * Now import the rest of the data.  The importer should auto-assign
>   accounts based on your previous selections.
> * Verify the matches and complete the import.
> 
>> Thanks
>> Dani
> 
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> 
> -derek
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