[GNC] changing accounts?

[paul at kroitor.ca]

Yes, or a simple keyboard macro.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+paul=kroitor.ca at gnucash.org> On
Behalf Of David H
Sent: November 10, 2021 6:38 PM
To: paul at kinzelman.com
Cc: Gnucash Elist <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] changing accounts?

I'm putting words into David's mouth here, but I think he meant to do a
search, possibly more than 1, so that all the txns you want to change end up
in a separate search result tab. If you've already done a COPY (CTRL / CMD
C) of the new destination account you can then just tab into each txn,
CTRL-V in the correct place and hit enter - as you update each one it will
disappear from the search result tab all going well.

Cheers David H.


On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 08:44, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:

> You're a little bit fast for me on that one. :-)
>
> I did it by hand for what I needed right now, but I was asking for 
> next time.
>
> In the 3rd paragraph, by "separate register" do you mean create a temp 
> account, and by "putting them in a separate register" do you mean 
> cut/paste each transaction?
> Then delete the temp and move the transactions to the new account?
>
> The replace is one of the features I really miss from Quicken.
>
> On 11/10/2021 3:37 PM, D. wrote:
> > If you're changing every ABC to DEF, you can delete ABC and tell 
> > gnucash to move the transactions into DEF. That's documented in the
wiki.
> >
> > If you're only deleting a bunch (but not all) there isn't one find 
> > and replace command. When push comes to shove, though, even fixing 
> > 100 transactions will only take a few minutes' time.
> >
> > If it were me in this second scenario (and it has been, believe 
> > me!), I'd search for the offending transactions, putting them all in 
> > a separate register, copy the new account designation, and paste it 
> > into each transaction at the appropriate point before pressing enter 
> > to commit them away.
> >
> > David
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> > *From:* Paul Kinzelman
> > *Sent:* Wed Nov 10 17:25:51 EST 2021
> > *To:* Gnucash Elist
> > *Subject:* [GNC] changing accounts?
> >
> > Is there some way to change all the entries for a set of items in an 
> > account to be charged to one account to charge them all to another 
> > account?
> >
> > For instance, if I have a monthly charge from XYZ that I charge to 
> > account ABC, and I have a bunch of them in my Checking account, is 
> > there a way to change all of them to DEF without going in and poking 
> > each one? And that's where a simple account name change ABC->DEF 
> > won't work because there's other stuff in there.
> >
> > In other words, like a global replace?
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> >
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