importing multiple accounts at once

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

dutch_tulips <pbdoody at gmail.com> writes:

> I am very new to gnucash, and I'm hoping that somebody can give me some help
> on importing transaction data from qif files.
>
> I am writing my own scripts to take csv data and put it into qif files.  It
> is pretty straightforward for me to create a qif file for a single account
> and use the import wizard to tell gnucash which account it's for.  However,
> I have many financial accounts at many different institutions.  Performing
> this process for each and every account is very time consuming.  I would
> like to pile all the transactions into one massive qif file, but I can't
> figure out how to format the qif file to specify which account the
> transactions belong to.  Note that I have no problem specifying the
> 'Transfer' account for each transaction.  I just can't figure out how to
> specify the originating account.
>
> The gnucash import wizard suggests this should be possible.  Every time I
> import a qif file, it says "The QIF file that you just loaded appears to
> contain transactions for just one account, but the file does not specify a
> name for that account."
>
> This tells me it is possible to 1) include transactions from more than one
> account in a single qif file, and 2) specify the gnucash account I am
> importing without specifically typing it in during the next step of the
> import wizard.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The QIF importer allows you to load multople QIF files simultaneously.
The druid will return back to the page to allow you to load a new file,
and you just need to keep doing that until you've loaded them all.

Or you can generate a multi-account QIF file, which QIF does support.

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-derek

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