[GNC] Transaction Import

David Cousens davidcousens at bigpond.com
Sun Mar 1 18:17:40 EST 2020


Stu,

You can disable the Bayesian matching  with Edit->Preferences->Online
Banking and uncheck the use bayesian matching chceckbox. I doubt if this
removes existing Bayesian data from your data file but it shouldn't then  be
used in processing further imports.  You can manually delete it with th
Tools->Import Match Editor if you wish. I don't know whether the token  data
from imports is still accumulated with that option unchecked. I suspect not,
but haven't actually checked the code out

The Import Match window does allow you to review each transaction before
importing. While it is displayed, the transactions marked for importing are
also provisionally displayed in the appropriate account register which can
be accessed normally to examine the data in the format usually encountered
(wouldn't edit them in the register though as any changes will be
overwritten when you complete the import the data). It would be nicer if
these were flagged in some way as provisional to distinguish them clearly
from transactions already fully imported to GnuCash but it usually obvious
from the dates.

In the Import Matcher editor if you look at the non-Bayesian data that
should give you account name mappings used in from source transaction data
and the GnuCash internal account they are mapped on to. There is no edit
capability there though. I think these are set initially when a new 
external account is encountered in import data with no existing mapping onto
the GnuCash internal accounts and a dialog to assign an account is brought
up.

The only way AFAIK to force a particular account to be assigned as the
transfer account is to specify the Account name in the import data
explicitly and then the above mentioned mapping will take place. My bank
attaches expense categories to my downloaded OFX files which I can setup in
their web interface and they assign particular transactions to them on the
basis of  my initial assignments. GnuCash's Bayesian matcher recognizes
those categories and match them onto specific intenal accounts fairly well.
unfortunately not all banks either do this or do it well.

David Cousens

David Cousens



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