Account matching on transaction import does poorly after account restructuring

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Hello, GnuCash users:

As mentioned in a couple of recent posts, I recently began a spurt of 
transaction importing, after a long pause. I got re-acquainted with the 
importer for OFX transactions, and its Bayesian matching capabilities.

It wasn't working well for me. Even after importing six months of OFX 
files from my credit card company, the matcher still wasn't able to 
figure out the correct account to use.

I did some digging. I made major changes to my GnuCash account names and 
hierarchy last year. I believe I'm paying a penalty now for that.

This is captured in bug 745896 "Bayes Import Map does not use GUID but 
account name, leading to outdated entries." 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745896>.

Has there been discussion of this issue beyond the bugzilla entry?  If 
so, I'd like to read up on it. I don't see anything from searching the 
list archives or wiki.

I have some ideas for how to implement the fix suggested in the bug 
report (use account's GUID instead of account's name as the identifier). 
I'll start a thread in gnucash-devel about this, and record any 
conclusions in bug 745896.

Inspired by a Perl script in the GnuCash wiki article "Bayes" 
<http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bayes>, I wrote some XSLT stylesheets 
which read an uncompressed GnuCash XML file and:
1. list the matched accounts in the Bayesian import maps
2. prune a specified set of accounts from the Bayesian import maps
3. completely remove the Bayesian import maps

I plan to post them in Wiki pages referenced from "Bayes", in the spirit 
of the Perl script there, unless someone has an idea for a better place. 
  I'll also put references to them in bug 745896.

There, now there is an entry in the -user list archives pointing to this 
bug report, for other users to find when they have the same problem.

-- 
   --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh at jdlh.com   http://blog.jdlh.com/ (and jdlh.com)
     multilingual websites consultant. GnuCash 2.6.11 on MacOS X 10.10.