[GNC] Why do Imported Transactions NEED to be Matched?

[Adrien Monteleone]

> On Apr 26, 2020 w18d117, at 7:28 PM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> @Tom Seesink - Will you log that as an enhancement bug at
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash (Import - other)?
> Please link back here.
> 
> @David Cousens, that excellent explanation about how the Import Matcher
> works helps answer my question. The documentation needs to explain
> the match is GUIDs rather than Transfer Accounts like other
> financial software.

Do you know other (including closed source) apps don’t use something similar? Why would a user normally need to know this implementation detail? If the import is done in small chunks, as advised (rather than one giant import with thousands of transactions) then the method behind the scenes isn’t an issue. Of course, GnuCash is open source, so anyone can go see for themselves that GUIDs are used without that fact being put in the docs.


> 
> An enhancement bug fix will take too long. Is there any way of getting
> GUIDs on the data? Perhaps reformatting it to QIF or OFX? Ultimately it is
> stored in a table somewhere. Is the code the only place to find the details
> on the import process?

There are many threads on this list discussing the process. Also, bugs which were addressed by the changes will have some discussion in them.

Until the docs are updated, this would be the only source of info other than the code itself.

Regards,
Adrien