[GNC] Change account type by editing XML?

D. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Sat May 2 02:48:12 EDT 2020


Just fishing, but wouldn't the signs change if you moved an asset account, say, to expenses? How would/should GnuCash handle existing transactions in such a moved account? 

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
Sent: Sat May 02 11:53:19 GMT+05:30 2020
To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Change account type by editing XML?

Indeed, I clicked Edit on an Asset account and I can only change it to:

Bank
Cash
Asset
Credit Card
Liability

I get the first three if there is going to be a limitation, but allowing the last 2 and not allowing even another debit balanced account like Expenses?

Strange.

I’m starting to wonder if this is a bug. If not, can someone shed light on the reasoning for not being able to refactor accounts except within their current parent type?

Regards,
Adrien

> On May 2, 2020 w18d123, at 12:43 AM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The intent of my post was to report you can't reassign transactions between
> Asset and Expenses accounts either using the process previously described.
> Yes, the account in Asset was created by the import wizard.
> 
> It's nothing serious, went back to the previous file and imported again.


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