How can I bulk duplicate tranactions

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Note that you don't need to shutdown GnuCash to do this -- you can just
run the Actions -> Scheduled Transactions -> Since Last Run... to bring up
the dialog.

As for adding the functionality, patches are always welcome :)

-derek

On Thu, March 13, 2014 10:53 am, Benjamin Bergman wrote:
> Thanks Michael. It sounds like gnucash doesn't really have an easy way
> to do exactly what I want. In the 12 hours I've been on this list,
> I've already seen someone else request the same kind of thing I was
> looking for, so perhaps I will try the developer list and see if there
> is a way I can add the required functionality.
>
> In the mean time, I just discovered that I can add a scheduled
> transaction starting in the past, close gnucash, and reopen it to have
> the scheduled transactions applied. Since all my transactions are the
> same amount, I think that this will be sufficient for me for now. I'll
> still need to manually make some 40 scheduled transactions, but that
> should be slightly less painful than making 600 individual
> transactions. The flexibility of being able to import a gnucash
> exported transaction csv would still be very handy.
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Mike or Penny Novack
> <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
>> Benjamin Bergman wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that I would rather be doing other things, but the membership
>>> is
>>> looking for a report with a breakdown of dues and donations each month.
>>> I
>>> will also be using gnucash for this year's books and tracking each
>>> member
>>> is necessary for making sure all dues are paid.
>>> On Mar 13, 2014 12:09 AM, "elvis" <elvis at dogonfire.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't know what to tell you. Writing ad hoc programs to "fake" people
>> sitting at their terminals entering tens of thousands of correction
>> transactions is the sort of thing I did back in my working days. So if
>> gnucash can import transactions form a file in .cvs format I am sure I
>> (or
>> some other pro) would be able to code the "transaction generating
>> program"
>> that would do this correctly. But there is no way you could afford the
>> "consultant" fee for the work. You could always try the prof of a nearby
>> the
>> school to see of he'd like to give this to a class as a case problem.
>>
>> But --- if, as you seem to think gnucash, cannot* import a split
>> transaction
>> here is a hint that might be enough for you to code it. Any split
>> transaction can be thought of as two consecutive (un)split transactions
>> and
>> you can continue that breakdown till all are unsplit transactions. Be
>> creative, even adding an account to the chart of that helps << example
>> ---
>> one side of the large splits will be the incoming check. So you create
>> am
>> account "payments for multiple things" and in the final sequence of
>> unsplit
>> transactions (equivalent to the split you can't import) is the check
>> against
>> this account and the each subsequent one taking some of the amount there
>> against the particular thing being paid for by the check>>.
>>
>> Michael D Novack
>>
>> * I'd have to take a hard look at that.  Suggestion ---- can you get
>> gnucash
>> to export transactions? Including some that are splits? What do they
>> look
>> like. You could try creating a test set of books containing a single
>> split
>> transaction and the export to .cvs and then try importing that to
>> another
>> set of test books .
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