[GNC] Online Help manual CSV import section is out of date

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

David,

I had a look at both Chapter 3 in the Tutorial and GUide on Importing and Ch6 in
the Help Manual. What has happened was the decision was made to move the
importing section into the help manual a couple of years ago when I rewrote the
Ch6 in the Help manual so I created the rewritten section in the Help manual and
the original remains in the  Tutorial and Concepts Guide. It should have been
removed but I neglected to do it at the time. There is no reference to category
in the Ch6 of the Help manual. 

I will submit a patch to remove Ch3 in the Guide and will simply add a note that
information on importing data is now in the Help manual.

Cheers

David Cousens


On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 01:36 -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> I had not looked at the Tutorial version on importing transactions
> recently.  I see it is now calling itself obsolete and it really is.  I do
> not want to get into a discussion about which document should contain what
> information, but neither should be obsolete.  One of them should be very
> detailed and could be referenced by the other.
> 
> The help windows included with the import wizards are currently the best
> source of information but they are only available while using the wizards.
> Unfortunately it is a very slow process to complete an import if there are
> more than a dozen or so transactions in the file, and I think even that
> fact should be mentioned in the  help.  There is no help at all for
> importing multi-split line transactions which did work correctly for me
> with a bank account file created by the GnuCash export process.
> 
> The help manual bundled with the Windows version of release 4.11 at least
> contains a couple current illustrations if not good information about the
> various details that are needed to get good results.  It is the third
> import screen which is not illustrated in the help manual that contains the
> word category which has a different meaning to former Quicken users than to
> GnuCash users.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:45 PM flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide is an excellent
> > introduction for Getting Started and Managing Personal Finances. The small
> > dataset demonstrates a lot. The only thing that really looks dated is the
> > checkbook-style transaction descriptions which are very different to modern
> > bank transaction descriptions. I understand from general comments in the
> > mailing list that others have a different view but I don't think those
> > concerns have been clearly described, something that is needed to fix the
> > problems.
> > 
> > How about aligning the Help manual Importing transactions from files with
> > the Concepts guide transactions? IIRC that's how it was when this section
> > was in the guide. I'm happy to contribute.
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