Mass deletion of transactions

[Ricardo Biloti]

I consider two possibilities to overcome such difficulty.

1) apply a simple operation to all entries of a search.
After search for all transactions, the user would be allowed to delete,
export, switch one of the accounts, etc. This feature however may imply in
moderate to high efforts in interface design and implementation.

2) native format for exporting/importing of transactions.
The user searchs for transactions he/she wants to keep, then export them
and reimport them into a new file. This export/import format however must
be gnucash native, instead of CSV, to avoid any information loss or
necessity of recheck all transactions for consistency and correctness. As a
developer, I consider this easier to implement, and more valuable as it
address other issues, like the possibility to backup just of part of the
transactions, not specifically related in time, like it is done in the log
files.

Besides, I would suggest that all accounts have a simple ID that could be
used to inform both accounts of each transaction in the CSV import. This
would greatly improve the CSV mass import of transactions. I believe that
the implementation effort related to such feature is worthy.

Are those potencial features valuable to others?

R.Biloti

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> Ricardo Biloti wrote:
> > Dear
> >
> > I'm needing to delete a bunch of transactions within a specified period
> of
> > time. Is there a way to accomplished that without have to delete each
> > transaction one by one through mouse clicks? I would probably end up
> > with tendinitis!
> >
> > I have tried to export the transactions I want to keep to a CSV file, and
> > them reimport them into a new file. However, all account information was
> > lost in the process and I would have to assign each transaction to the
> > right account, which would definitely be to painful.
> >
> > Any suggestion is welcome.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ricardo
>
>
> If the time is recent, then using a previous backup and re-entering the
> good transactions would be less painful. I don't recall any smart way of
> mass deletion or mass editing. Has someone already put this need on
> Bugzilla?
>
> Liz
>
>