[GNC] Changing multiple transactions

[Jean L]

Note: as a dev I have (and probably many before me) tried to look at 
what it would take allow selecting multiple transactions at the same 
time and then do an operation. Sadly, there's no quick fix to GC that 
could make this happen, it's a large re-write apparently. One dev looked 
(is looking?) into changing the main register code to allow 
multi-transaction edits (among other things) but I haven't heard of any 
recent progress...

J.


On 1/31/2021 4:17 PM, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> On 1/31/21 2:30 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>
>> On 1/31/21 12:26 PM, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
>>> On 1/31/21 12:05 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> PPS  Backups are mandatory.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, they will be, once I get enough useful data in there that I 
>>> don't keep starting over from scratch.  Since I sent out the 
>>> original email, I've realized that it's any kind of bulk editing 
>>> that will require this, and turns out, apparently I really like to 
>>> change multiple things at once.  I'll give it a try and see if it's 
>>> worth it.
>>>
>>
>> Oh.  Starting over from scratch?  Just train the importer (you will 
>> have to do that anyway over time).  Don't let them go to the 
>> imbalance account in the first place.
>> If importing a CSV file, create an extra column that you call the 
>> transfer account (or something like that) and put your own strings in 
>> there for the different accounts.  During the import GnC will ask you 
>> for the real account name for each of those strings.  It will ask 
>> only once per string rather than each time it encounters that same 
>> string (as would be done if matching on something else).
>>
>
> Yeah, I'm still in the "evaluate whether this is going to work for me 
> long-term" phase, so reimporting isn't TOO painful.  I will try to put 
> what you've suggested here into action, though I'm currently puzzling 
> a little about how to with an OFX source instead of CSV - it did ask 
> me the real account name, but apparently only for one side of each 
> transaction?  I'll dig.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> +j
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