[GNC] Change account type by editing XML?

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 4/29/20 1:14 PM, david whiting wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 20:29, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>> Just a thought - if you change the account parent away from A/R can you then
>> change the type?
>>
>> HTH,
>> Maf.
>>
> No, unfortunately moving the parent account doesn't allow me to change it.
>
> David


I think you misunderstood, or I'm not understanding what you did.  It
sounds like you attempted to edit the parent account and change it's
type.  What we are suggesting is that you edit the leaf account and
change who it's parent is so that it shows up underneath a different
(non-A/R) account.

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>
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>> On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:25:25 BST david whiting wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> When I first set up my accounts (for a local club) I knew very little
>>> about accounting and misinterpreted some information I was given by an
>>> accountant and ended up creating some sub-accounts in Accounts Receivable.
>>> I now know that was not the correct thing to do, and I should have created
>>> these accounts as straight-forward asset accounts.
>>>
>>> Using gnucash I cannot change the account type for these accounts. When I
>>> use ctrl+e on these accounts I only see account type A/Receivable so I
>>> cannot change them through the GUI.
>>>
>>> I've compared the XML structure of one of these accounts with another
>>> simple asset account and they are the same except for the <act:type>, i.e.:
>>>
>>> <act:type>RECEIVABLE</act:type>
>>>
>>> versus
>>>
>>> <act:type>ASSET</act:type>
>>>
>>> I've tried editing this (on a copy) and simply changing RECEIVABLE to ASSET
>>> seems to work when I re-open the file. Once this is done I used gnucash to
>>> move the account to the correct place in the accounts hierarchy and all
>>> seemed well.
>>>
>>> Before I do this to all instances in my working file are there any
>>> potential adverse consequences that doing this could cause that I am
>>> not aware of?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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