If you downloaded the transactions in QIF format, you may find this tool interesting:
https://github.com/Kraymer/qifqif I have used for about a year now and it's really effective at categorizing transactions to the correct account before importing. On Tue, Feb 20, 2018, at 10:09 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 2018, at 4:39 AM, Hans Deragon <h...@deragon.biz> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > 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? > > > > 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? > > > > Using GnuCash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. > > No, GnuCash does not train itself: You have to train it. You do that by > assigning the transactions to accounts during import. That’s what that > dialog with all of the yellow was about. Your best course of action is > to go to the backup from before the import and start over. > > Otherwise, yes, the only way to change transactions is one-at-a-time. > You can speed it up a bit using the Edit>Find to select a group of > transactions that you want to change to a particular. You’ll get a > editable register and you can just go down the list changing each > transfer account. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
