Importing accounts/data as CSV

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, John Ralls wrote:

> Table 4.1 doesn't say that. It says that to import Accounts from CSV they
> must be in the same format as that exported by GnuCash, meaning GnuCash's
> Export>Accounts Tree to CSV function.

John,

   True. I thought it also applied to transaction data.

> Importing transactions is a lot more flexible and includes a wizard lifted
> from GOffice wherein you can assign the transaction and split fields to
> the appropriate column in your CSV file. It is limited in that it cannot
> handle transactions with more than two splits. Because the GnuCash CSV
> exporter *does* support more than two splits per transaction it has
> multiple lines per transaction and so can't round-trip back into GnuCash.

   This is good to know and I have only two splits on some transactions.

Thanks very much,

Rich