Flipping account types by hacking the XML

[Derek Atkins]

Maf,

On Thu, May 18, 2017 10:01 am, Maf. King wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:57:03 BST farleykj wrote:
>> Another method, perhaps a tedious one, is to create the "proper" credit
>> card
>> account, then go into the imported transactions and redesignate the
>> accounts of each transaction. I've done this for situations where I
>> needed
>> to add a "Cash" account to an investment account. It takes a while, but
>> has
>> the advantage that you are editing things from within the program,
>> rather
>> than editing the XLM code.
>>
>
> I might be misunderstanding the problem, but isn't the (supported) way to
> deal
> with this just to edit each account from the CoA and change the type to
> Credit
> Card?
>
> If there are many affected accounts, it will be a bit tedious, but I
> should
> have thought as a one-time only job, quicker & easier than hacking &
> testing
> on the datafile?

unfortunately 2.6.16 stops you from doing that.  I would recommend you
downgrade to 2.6.15, make the changes there, and then you can come back to
2.6.16.  I'm hoping that 2.6.17 "fixes" this problem.

>
> 0.02
> Maf.

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-derek

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