[GNC] TRANSFER transactions

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 12/13/18 2:06 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 December 2018 09:33:13 GMT davidbrown.rdps at photos.bozeat.biz
> wrote:
>> Thursday 13th Dec
>> I have set up 5 accounts to allocate particular categories of transactions.
>> They are each top of the tree.
>> I want to have a single parent and 5 child accounts.  How can I transfer all
>> individual accounts to the single parent account without changing each
>> transaction manually.
>> In the "Accounts" tab I can right click on an expense account and the option
>> to "Transfer Funds" dialog box appears.  It is not clear to me and find
>> difficulty in finding the same in the help documentation.
>> Kind regards
>>
>> David
>>
> Hi David,
>
> You can edit the accounts to re-parent them.  From the chart of accounts view,
> select one of the "child" accounts, then Edit -> Edit Account.  In the
> dialogue box that appeared, in the bottom right corner, there is a box to
> specify the parent account - the rest should be obvious.
>
> You'll have to do that for each account you wish to re-parent.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>   

I've done this several times and it works well.

--Steve

PS  Perhaps more cunning than deleting the account and watching the 
transactions get re-homed.


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