[GNC] bulk operations?

[Weiwu Zhang]

This issue comes up regularly with new users. The short answer to the 
question is,  "no, there is not a bulk edit."

Instead of discouraging people to ask this because it's already discussed 
and some suggestions are already archived, I feel starting the 
conversation again is the only way to call out the importance of this 
feature so we might have a formal solution that we can put into the 
document section. Gnucash cuts into the prosumer market where users do 
need such "advanced" features.

In fact I'm a bit disheartened that this question stopped reappearing 
sincer 2017. Previously it showed up roughly yearly. It might be a 
sign that there are less new users discovering gnucash, instead of 
people being more mature and stopped asking without searching into the 
archives.

The following is just an exmaple in 2017, the last year people still asked 
for this.

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:07, Eric Theise<erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Suppose I'm in the "Search Results" window resulting from an "Edit >
> Find..." operation. Is there any way to apply a change to every
> transaction that appears?

> Say that, due to history and multiple credit card accounts, a
> grocer's Description appears as "HI HO", "hi ho grocery", "hi-ho
> market", and permutations thereof. Is there any way to standardize
> the name for everything in the result set besides manually changing
> each line?

> I'd also like to be able to perform bulk operations against
> "Imbalance-USD" transactions.

> If it's not possible through the GUI, how about via issuing SQL
> statements to a database backend?