[GNC] Change account type by editing XML?

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Wed Apr 29 16:33:11 EDT 2020


On 4/29/20 1:21 PM, david whiting wrote:
> 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.
Ouch!  Sounds like a bug or that the A/R account type is locked down too
tight.
>
> David
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