[GNC] Account ID when importing CSV Transactions

[Geert Janssens]

Op maandag 19 november 2018 01:59:18 CET schreef David Carlson:
> I have been using GnuCash for many years and I am still using release
> 2.6.17 or similar depending on which computer I am using.  I just noticed
> that when I am importing a CSV transactions file and I get to the step to
> determine which account to import the transactions into, the list of
> accounts shows a column named Account ID.  I had previously assumed that
> this was the description column from the Chart of Accounts page, but today
> the accont that I was importing into did not have an account ID in the
> import page but many other accounts do have ID's and most of them match the
> description because that is where I have customarily put the accont number.
> 
> There is no column in the Chart of Accounts page called Account ID or
> containing the same information.  How can I put the missing account number
> into the Account ID column if I cannot see it?

Account ID is not something you can set on an account directly. IIRC it 
originally comes from the csv import data's account column. GnuCash uses this 
to map the value of that column with a real account within GnuCash.

In GnuCash 3.3 you can view/delete this information via a separate dialog.

Regards,

Geert