[GNC] linking pre-existing assets with liabilities

[AP]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:19:01AM +1100, AP wrote:
> I am importing my bank statements into my bank Assets account in gnucash. I
> would like to link those withdrawals with bills I have created in my A/Payable
> Liabilities account.
> 
> The hassle is when I hit pay it creates a manual entry for me. I don't want
> that. I would like to link that to the entry generated from my bank import
> that corresponds to the payment that was made.
> 
> Is there a way to do this so that I can remove the "unpaid" tag from the bill
> and keep the accounts appropriately balanced?

As it turns out, once again, I find my answer right after asking. For anyone else
here it is:

Go to the withdrawal, right click and select "Assign as payment..."

One downside is that it changes the description of the field to the company name
and puts the old description into the memo field. If you want to keep the description
the bank gave remember to copy the memo field and then paste into the desc.

AP