Reset import assignment

[cgw993 at aol.com]

"Why?  The importer is learning from previous behavior to make it easier for
you going forward.  It's supposed to learn that whenever it sees a
transaction for Publix then it should go to Expenses:Groceries.  This should
be encouraged, not discouraged."

Is there a way to permanently disable the importer to prevent it from
learning or doing anything at all against your wishes?  In other words is
there a way to make it such that the user can control the software and it is
not the software that controls the user? GNUcash has cloned proprietary
software right down to the user subjugating part.



-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+cgw993=aol.com at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+cgw993=aol.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of Derek
Atkins
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 10:20 AM
To: Jeff
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Reset import assignment

Hi,

Jeff <jeff at iwebss.com> writes:

> Whenever I import a CSV file, it gets to the Generic Import 
> Transaction Matcher and shows the List Of Downloaded Transactions, and 
> in the INFO column I made the mistake of previously trying to assign 
> some transactions to specic accounts, but now it will automatically 
> try to assign accounts to some transactions, and the account 
> assignment is almost always wrong.
>
> Is there a way to reset this automatic account assignment so it just 
> goes back to leaving them all assigned to UNBALANCED?

No, there is no easy way to do this..  There definitely is no way to do it
in the UI.  An unsupported method would be to remove the mapping entries
from the Account KVP Slots in the XML Data file, but this is neither
recommended nor supported (and you should definitely make a backup of your
datafile before you attempt it).

> I would rather just import them all into the account first as 
> UNBALANCED then go back and manually assign them.

Why?  The importer is learning from previous behavior to make it easier for
you going forward.  It's supposed to learn that whenever it sees a
transaction for Publix then it should go to Expenses:Groceries.  This should
be encouraged, not discouraged.

> Thanks

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-derek

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