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

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 4/26/20 6:18 PM, flywire wrote:
>> Do you know other (including closed source) apps don’t use something
> similar?
>
> I've used many other financial apps that just import Transfer Account
> directly in as listed in the csv.
>
>> Why would a user normally need to know this implementation detail?
> Because it's counter-intuitive to load a Transfer Account field that is
> exactly the same as the CoA in the GnuCash file and then have to match the
> Transfer Account.


But that is the sweet idea -- use a short mnemonic and have it mapped
once.  I do this to encode a bunch of transactions for a non-profit I
manage.  Keeps from having to type in the entire account path.


> Agree that import works in small chunks (as posted previously). Does that
> response cover any way of getting GUIDs on the data?
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