Hi, Hans Deragon <h...@deragon.biz> writes:
> Greetings, > > New user here. I downloaded 500 transactions from my credit card bank > site, all assigned to 'Imbalanced-CAD'. Now, how can I set rules to > automatically assign transactions to a specific account? For instance, > any transaction with "^ESSO.*" or "^SHELL.*" must be reassigned to > Car:Gasoline. I fail to find that information on the web, except that > when importing, GnuCash trains itself and does that automatically at the > next import. There are no rule-based modifications. It's all about training. > But what about my 500 transactions that are already imported? What > about if one wants to reassign transactions to another account, after a > month of careful thinking? Does a user have to go through all > transactions manually? Yes, you will. Or you can "restart" -- revert back to before the import, and then assign the imports correctly the "first" time. > As a workaround, is it possible to convert the GnuCash file into Unicode > and use scripting languages to manipulate the transactions, then convert > it back to its binary format? No. But you could use the Python bindings to write a script against the GnuCash API and manipulate them that way. > Using GnuCash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. > > Best regards, > Hans Deragon > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.