Transaction Imports

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Sep 25 23:22:10 EDT 2015


> On Sep 25, 2015, at 7:30 PM, Barry <bdp3 at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings All‹
> 
> As a Gnew Gnu user Iąm looking for relevant archives about importing
> transactions. Or perhaps someone can clue me to the Śhow toąs":
> 
> Using GnuCash 2.6.6 I can:
>   I can successfully:
> A) Import QIF
> B) Import Accounts From CSV
> C) Import Transactions From CSV
> 
> I Need help:
> I cannot import transactions to an account without laboriously
> double-clicking each and every transaction to identify each oneąs correct
> Expense/Income category.  There could be hundreds!
> 
> How is it possible to import a file into GnuCash which will tell GnuCash
> which Expense account to put the charge into?!?
> 
> I hope Iąve been sufficiently clear.

It’s not at present. Bob Fewell has submitted some patches to extend the CSV importer to understand the “other” account in a CSV file, but we’re still doing code review. They’re not likely to go on the release branch in any case, so they won’t be available to users until 2.8.

Regards,
John Ralls




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