Hi Alen, >I see that, with Multi-split checked, I can no longer select the Transfer >Account destination field. This is a dead end for my current approach, using >Transfer Account.
With a multisplit multiline record there should be no need. GnuCash should interpret the following lines as transfer accounts I suspect the mismatches you get are a problem with GnuCash not interpreting the multiline splits correctly. It is why I am doing a structured testing of the import capability. >At the last screen, I now get all mismatches as the destination account is >missing and I'm prompted to select one. This makes no sense as I could have >simply selected that at the first screen and save my matcher schema. >Should I raise this as a bug or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed >to work? The account selection in the first window is AFAIK intended to select an account for all transactions to be imported into. It is intended I think for the case where the records to be imported do not specify the account they are being imported to. Where the transaction has only 2 splits and both accounts which are the targets of the splits are specified then the single line format with both the account and transfer account are specified is appropriate as you have done. You could equally treat "Cash" as the transfer account and "Food:Dining out" as the account being impoorted to if you swapped the deposit and withdrawal columns as well. The mismatches seem to indicate that GnuCash is not recognizing the account in the second line as the transfer account which it should. You can raise it as a bug if you wish. I will be testing all the import settings fairly methodically in in the next few days so if you don't I will in any case. If you have already I can just add the results of my testing as a comment. The notation transfer account is not one as an accountant that I really like. It only makes sense when transferring funds between two asset (or liability accounts) but many software developers and users have adopted it so it is now part of the language. My view of a transaction is that it consist of two or more splits each of which has a target account which is debited or credited by that split. Where the multiline capability comes into its own is in dealing with transactions with 3 or more splits and it really only needs to be used in this case. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel