[GNC] import map editor

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sat May 12 09:21:36 EDT 2018


Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 23:10:34 CEST schreef Eric Theise:
> I appreciate Stefan raising this issue. I have the opposite issue; not an
> empty editor, but an editor full of "Map Account NOT found" and
> "Unspecified" lines. Geert Janssens suggested that my import maps have been
> corrupted as the most recent comment in my bug filed at
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794690 and, having just
> installed 3.1.3, I'd like to make a go of fixing them.
> 
> A few questions.
> 
> * is there documentation somewhere that explains the format of the "Match
> String" and what it's matched against?

I don't know this part.

> * is there any reason not to delete the dozens of lines whose "Mapped to
> Account Name" is "Map Account NOT found"?

No, you can safely delete them. These won't we helpful in matching anyway.

> * is there any reason not to delete the dozens of lines whose "Mapped to
> Account Name" is "Unspecified"?

Same here;

> * is there any way to edit, as opposed to delete, a line or am I expecting
> too much of the "Import Map Editor"?

That's too much :(
The import map editor was designed to remove bad import map entries, so they 
wouldn't interfere with future imports any more.

Do let us know if the import behaves better after you have removed the bad map 
entries.

Geert




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