Hi,
Hans Deragon <[email protected]> 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
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-derek
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