How to assign transaction to accounts automatically.

[Roger Miskowicz]

Excellent question!

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:39 AM, Hans Deragon <hans at deragon.biz> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> New user here.  I downloaded 500 transactions from my credit card bank
> site, all assigned to 'Imbalanced-CAD'.  Now, how can I set rules to
> automatically assign transactions to a specific account?  For instance,
> any transaction with "^ESSO.*" or "^SHELL.*" must be reassigned to
> Car:Gasoline.  I fail to find that information on the web, except that
> when importing, GnuCash trains itself and does that automatically at the
> next import.
>
> But what about my 500 transactions that are already imported?  What
> about if one wants to reassign transactions to another account, after a
> month of careful thinking?  Does a user have to go through all
> transactions manually?
>
> As a workaround, is it possible to convert the GnuCash file into Unicode
> and use scripting languages to manipulate the transactions, then convert
> it back to its binary format?
>
> Using GnuCash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
>
> Best regards,
> Hans Deragon
>
>
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