Help with importer needed

[Liz]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Scumbuster" <scumbuster at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The reason I do it that way is because once it is in the checking
>> account,
>> say,  it is "buried" within all the other transactions....
>>
>> If I move everything onto "imbalance" first, I can then go through and
>> split
>> he accounts as needed one at a time.....it works like the "uncleared
>> transactions page in Quicken used to....
>>
>> My question is why in heaven's name it is assigning "estimate" and "bank
>> charge" to everything.
>
> Probably because it learned that from some previous assignments.  The
> importer learns from previous assignments based on the description and
> then applies that to future imports.
>
>> In the beginning, everything was "imbalance"...fine by me.
>
> I'm not sure why -- I would want the importer to do more of the work for
> me, because then it's less work I have to do ;)
>

If you want an 'uncleared transactions' account, just make one, start
telling the importer to transfer to there, and work from there.