[GNC] Thank you to developers

[William Prescott]

That makes sense. Thanks.

Will

On 21 Oct 2024, at 15:42, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:

But not after you've imported them. You assign them during import, and that's when it learns. 

David T.
On Oct 22, 2024, at 12:18 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>> wrote:
> 
> Theoretically you can "train" it...
> -derek
> 
> On Mon, October 21, 2024 4:54 pm, William Prescott wrote:
>>  I used a .qfx file. It didn't occur to me to right-click on them and I
>>  didn't see that in my short perusal of the documentation. I always try
>>  things first, then read the documentation later or not at all. Sometimes
>>  that bites me.
>> 
>>  Will it remember assignments next time?
>> 
>>  Best wishes,
>>  Will
>> 
>>  On 21 Oct 2024, at 14:45, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  Which import mechanism did you use?
>>  For QIF, there is a mapper from QIF Account and Payee/Memo to target
>>  Income/Expense account.
>>  For OFX and CSV, the importer has a way to assign them, but you need to
>>  right-click on each line to assign the account.
>>  -derek
>> 
>>  On Mon, October 21, 2024 4:25 pm, William Prescott wrote:
>>>  I have used Gnucash since 2011-01-01. I had never used the import
>>>  function
>>>  until this past weekend. I always made all the entries manually. But I
>>>  recently realized that my bank allows downloading transactions in qfx
>>>  format and I decided to try it.
>>> 
>>>  It was a good time to do so. I recently returned from a trip where I
>>>  used
>>>  Apple Pay on my phone to pay for everything. So every minor thing I did
>>>  was a separate transaction. I had 72 lines on my credit card statement.
>>> 
>>>  I imported it into Gnucash with no problem.  The only thing  that could
>>>  have been better was setting the account for all of the transactions.
>>>  One
>>>  side was the credit card account and that worked fine. But it set the
>>>  other side to "Imbalance-USD". I didn't see a way to change that on all
>>>  of
>>>  them before the import. So I went through and changed them all manually
>>>  after the import. It was still a lot easier than entering them manually.
>>> 
>>>  In hindsight, I think I probably could have imported just one of them,
>>>  set
>>>  the account correctly on it. Then imported the rest and it might have
>>>  known better what to do with them.
>>> 
>>>  I any event, learning to use the import function was a big time saver
>>>  that
>>>  I will make more use of in the future. And I wanted to thank the
>>>  developers for providing it.
>>> 
>>>  Thank you.
>>> 
>>>  Best wishes,
>>>  Will
>>> 
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