[GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data?

Sun Apr 12 13:32:42 EDT 2020

David,

Am 12.04.20 um 16:17 schrieb D.:
> Frank, 
> 
> On the first point, I'd note that the books in question are mine; changing the transaction date from MY date to the bank's date would seem to contradict that. 
> 
> I was unaware that the matcher would match transactions that have different amounts. That seems worrying. 
>
> Generally speaking, if I've entered my own description (whether by manually entering it, by a scheduled transaction, or use autofill), I prefer to use MY description. Why else would I have done that work in the first place? 
> 
> I don't know about common practice in the EU (which I believe is your location), but my experience in the US is that the bank's descriptions are meaningless machine mumbo jumbo that begin with a transaction code that precludes any meaningful grouping of transactions by description. Accepting the bank's descriptions over my own never made any sense to me. 
> 
> David T.

See
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/set-prefs.html#prefs-online
for parameters to adjust the behaviour.

https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-import.html, in
particular
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-import.html#match_status
has more info about the process.

Frank