[GNC] Online Help manual CSV import section is out of date

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

David,

That was likely my bad. I rewrote the Importer documentation a couple of years
ago after Geert had completed a major rewrite of the CSV importer and importer
code in general. I was working primarily from experimentation with the program
and only a passing acquaintance with some areas of the code. Unfortunately I
don't make a lot of use of the CSV importer these days as most of my imports are
now OFX. I have been sidetracked on some physics work over the past few years
and haven't revisited it recently. The working of the append feature at that
time wasn't very clear to me but there has been a bit of discussion in the
mailing list I can possibly draw on. I will try to make some time to search out
any recent changes in the append behaviour and update the docs and relook at the
use of category in that context. It may be useful to reference it explicitly to
the use of categories in other programs users may be importing data from, and
again point out explicitly that categories in other programs map onto accounts
in Gnucash. Most people importing from Quicken are unlikely to use CSV though.

David Cousens

On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 12:23 -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> reference:https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help
> 
> I wanted to report that one of the help pages for CSV file imports
> contained the word category, at least in the release 4.8 release, but I
> found that the release 4.11 online Help manual does not have the correct
> information specifically for importing in the GnuCash Export format.
> Specifically, it does not have an image of the third step instructions
> prior to the matching step which has the word category in it and it does
> not cover the new features optionally showing the matched fields or
> explaining what the append feature does.
> 
> I am not sure what is actually bundled with release 4.11
> 
> Unfortunately I do not have the time to try to fix this myself.
>