handling of "class" (tag) code in quicken QIF file.

[Tom Dunn]

I'm talking about classes and you just answered my question.  In quicken I tracked expenses for multiple buildings using one set of categories and then used the class code to pull the expenses for an individual building.  I will just set up individual accounts in gnucash.  The way it is designed I think it will be fairly easy to rearrange the transactions.

I have moved over about 15 years of records with great success and less work than I had expected.  The program has performed flawlessly and the documentation is excellent.  The people that wrote this program did a great job.  So far it is one of the best programs that I have found -- for me it's a big improvement over quicken.
Tom Dunn

On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:29, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Tom Dunn <tomdunn at knology.net> writes:
> 
>> I am converting from Quicken to gnucash and am importing my data in
>> individual account QIF files.   It is working fine but I have a
>> question regarding the class (tag) code that is used in quicken.   It
>> appears to be ignored during import.   I am assuming that I must
>> manually separate the classes within my Quicken account into separate
>> gnucash accounts - 
>> one for each class code.   Is there is some automated way of
>> separating the transactions in one quicken account into multiple
>> gnucash accounts according to the class code associated with each
>> transaction?
> 
> Are you talking about Classes or Categories?
> 
> GnuCash maps Categories into Income and Expense Accounts.
> GnuCash does NOT support Classes.
> 
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> -derek
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