Account associations with Description are not "remembered"

Brooks Bridges bridges.brooks at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 19:12:26 EDT 2016


Thanks very much to all. I'm good now.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Lincoln A Baxter <lab at lincolnbaxter.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 12:08 -0400, Brooks Bridges wrote:
> > Derek, you nailed my problem - for some reason I didn't even notice
> > the
> > intermediate window - so anxious to see results - damn cracks in
> > sidewalk.
> > I tried a test case just now changing in that window and all works.
> > Thanks .
>
> Derek,
>
> I think I know the answer to this because I could not find any
> references to the Imbalance accounts in my Bayes slot data, But, if one
> leaves the transactions unmatched in the import window and finishes, as
> Brooks did, does the importer store Bayesian slot data weighting the
> next imported transactions toward matching the Imbalance accounts? If
> so, I could update my gc_prune_bayes_data.pl script to explicitly
> remove any slot data referencing the Imbalance accounts.
>
> Brooks: FYI, the script I referenced can help GC forget the sins of the
> past,  It can even remove all slot data, so you can start over if you
> want.  If you are interested, message me, and I'll post the most recent
> version.
>
> In the mean time, it seems there may be little more interest than I
> first thought.  Chris Good reached out to me about providing a more
> easily found, reference copy of these scripts. (referenced on the
> Wiki). I'm thinking about creating a github repository for them, and
> maybe uploading to CPAN. (www.cpan.org).  There is already a GnuCash
> top level namespace there, and GnuCash::Utilties is not taken. If you
> the most recent versions these scripts, send me a message.
>
> Lincoln
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Brooks,
> > >
> > > Brooks Bridges <bridges.brooks at gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hello David,
> > > >
> > > > Appreciate reply but I'm still missing something.
> > > >
> > > > I checked preferences and do have Bayesian matching checked. My
> > > > understanding is this is for unknown transactions - it attempts
> > to
> > > > recognize a grocery store for instance.
> > > > In my case I deliberately imported a one-month earlier set of
> > data, went
> > > > in, matched a bunch of things to accounts, saved. Then I attached
> > a set
> > > of
> > > > later data. All were assigned "Imbalance-USD", even when there
> > was an
> > > exact
> > > > match to an earlier transaction.
> > > > I just tried hand entering one previously matched - it recognized
> > the
> > > > description and completed it but nothing appeared in Transfer
> > column.
> > >
> > > Just to confirm... You're making these assignments *IN the Import
> > > Window* and not after-the-fact, right?  Once you finish the import,
> > > that's it.  If you've assigned accounts *during the import* then
> > gnucash
> > > should remember it.  HOWEVER once you finish it, if you've left
> > > something in Imbalance and then change it from the register,
> > GnuCash
> > > WILL NOT learn that change.
> > >
> > > > I sometimes leap small buildings with a running start but other
> > times
> > > > stumble over cracks in sidewalk.
> > >
> > > Don't we all?  Especially if it's a wide, crooked crack :)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > > Brooks
> > >
> > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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> > >
> > > -derek
> > >
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