[GNC] Change account type by editing XML?

david whiting dw at davidwhiting.me.uk
Wed Apr 29 16:21:47 EDT 2020


On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 20:48, Adrien Monteleone
<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> 1. Create new accounts as the proper type in the proper place in the tree.
>
> 2. Delete each of the current accounts, one at a time, you wish to change.
>
> 3. GnuCash will ask you, for each deletion, what you want to do with the transactions the account currently contains.
>
> 4. Choose the option to re-assign them to the corresponding new account.
>
> Since they are both assets (A/R is an asset) this should go smoothly.
>
> Do a test with one account on a copy of the data file just to be sure there are no unforseen issues.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>

Unfortunately the only accounts that show up in the "Move to" dialogue
are other A/R accounts, no other asset accounts are visible. I've
verified this by creating a new account outside of the A/R hierarchy
with type A/R. It was then visible in the list of accounts. I selected
it and deleted the transactions so they moved to this new A/R account
outside of the A/R hierarchy. But once that had been done, I could no
longer change the type of that account.

David


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