[GNC] OFX import for Multiple Visa

[Kevin Hale Boyes]

This sounded like excellent advice so I gave it a try but unfortunately I
ran into trouble.
The delete-account dialog must filter the list of accounts to move
transactions to because the one I wanted wouldn't show up.
I couldn't type it manually either because when I tabbed off the field it
just reset it.

I know I'm not supposed to do it but I edited the gnucash file directly to
move the transactions.
Then I deleted the old VISA account.

I then imported the OFX for the new VISA and it prompted me as desired -
yay!
But then I imported the OFX for the old VISA and it now goes to the new
VISA without prompting.

Very frustrating.
I may create a bug to see if I can get some feedback from devs.

Anyway, the old VISA is going to be retired soon so now that the
transactions are going to the new VISA account it'll be tolerable to enter
transactions manually for a while.

Thanks everyone for the help you've given me.
I really appreciate it.

Kevin.


On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 14:46, <incoming-gnucash at sabot.com> wrote:

>
> On this topic:
>
>    The import was successful but the transactions were put into the old
> VISA
>    account instead of GnuCash asking me what account they should go to.
>    Maybe this is a developer question but how does GC know what account to
> put
>    the transactions into?
>    Which brings me back to a question I asked previously about resetting
> the
>    OFX import to GC account mapping.
>    ...
>
> I have one possible workaround that I have used (albeit with version
> 2.6) to change the OFX-to-gnucash-account mapping in situation like
> that: First, create a backup of your gnucash file, just in case.  Then
> create a temporary account, call it "placeholder".  Give it properties
> just like the old VISA account that is unfortunately getting all your
> new transactions.  Then on the VISA account, click to Delete Account.
> Gnucash will then ask you if you want to move the transactions into
> some other account instead of losing them.  Go ahead and move them to
> the "placeholder" account and allow it to delete the (empty) visa
> account.  Now rename "placeholder" to be "VISA".
>
> After all those gymnastics, you are pretty much back where you
> started, i.e. should still have your old VISA data just as it was
> before.  But next time you import OFX transactions, they won't go to
> VISA: instead gnucash will ask the (one time) questions about where
> they should go, and it sets up a new mapping accordingly.
>
> --gary
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