[GNC] bulk operations?

[Samantha Payn]

I’d find a “batch post invoice” function enormously helpful. I have a foreign currency client who insists on a separate invoice for each (sometimes inconsequential) amount and the multiple clicks to post the invoice and confirm the exchange rate for each one are time consuming.
Currently the quickest I’ve got it is to create each invoice but not post it, then use “find invoice” criteria to call all the invoices up, highlight them all and then click “post” which prompts the exchange rate dialogue (for every invoice). I use “fetch rate” for the first invoice, and just “accept rate” for all the others, but that’s still three clicks per invoice (I think).
Please could Santa bring me a “batch post invoice” function for Christmas?
Samantha PAYN
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> On 7 Dec 2020, at 22:01, Weiwu Zhang <a at colourful.land> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
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