Duplicating Accounts?

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 12:20:16 EST 2018


If you delete a higher level account, you'll get a dialog asking if you
want to delete the subs also or transfer them under another account.

Regards,
Adrien

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:55 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 February 2018 at 20:38, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy
>> template,
>> but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then
>> I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while
>> export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree.
>>
>
> You could export the account tree, open that in gnucash, delete all the
> accounts you don't want (they will all be empty of course) and re-export.
> I don't know whether you can delete a top level account and all sub
> accounts in one go or not, if you can then that might be noticeably quicker
> than re-entering them.
>
> Colin
>
>
>>
>> Best of luck.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I figured out how to do this once before and now for thelife of I cannot
>> > remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and allof its
>> > sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances.
>> >
>> > This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicatingtransactions. It
>> is
>> > basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expenseaccount
>> hierarchy.
>> >
>> > Anyone remember how to do this without creating a newaccount and eight
>> new
>> > sub-accounts?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
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