gnucash csv export full account names

[Geert Janssens]

On maandag 13 maart 2017 03:29:50 CET Casey Brown wrote:
> Hi - I am new to GnuCash (using version 2.6.15), and I am mostly pleased.
> 
> I can export a CSV file of an account easily enough (File > Export >
> Export Transactions to CSV).  Is it possible to export the full name of
> accounts?  Is that a simple option somewhere that I am overlooking?
> 
> The CSV that is exported has a column called "Account Name" and a column
> called "Category" - both of these columns contain the short name of
> accounts.  Suppose I have an assets:cash account and an expenses:clothes
> account.  A transaction where I purchased some clothes appears in the
> CSV using just "cash" and "clothes" in the respective columns instead of
> "assets:cash" and "expenses:clothes" This is obviously a problem as soon
> as two accounts have the same name (e.g. expenses:auto:gas and
> expenses:utilities:gas).
> 
> Thanks.

This is unfortunately not implemented in the 2.6 gnucash series. I'm happy to 
report though Robert Fewell did add this for the next major release (2.8) 
which - if all goes as planned - will go into beta in a few weeks time.

Regards,

Geert