[GNC] Online Help manual CSV import section is out of date

[David Carlson]

Thank you in advance!  I think these new features may be very useful to
some so they should be well documented.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 5:18 PM <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
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David Carlson