[GNC] linking pre-existing assets with liabilities

[Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)]

Thanks very much for posting your solution. That will be helpful for
future people who have a similar question. And even for folks like me
who may not need it right now, still it's interesting!

Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com

On 2023-11-16 16:39, AP wrote:
> 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.