Re: Duplicating Accounts?

[Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user]

Adrien, that was it.I exported the accounts to a CSV. Edited the file, removed 
all accounts but the one I wanted to duplicate. Edited those account lines with 
the new name and imported back into GNUCash. BAM! Just what I was after. :)

Thanks much!Steve
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 14:38:33 -0600
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@gmail.com>
To: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: Duplicating Accounts?
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I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy template,
but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then
I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while
export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree.

Best of luck.

Regards,
Adrien

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> I figured out how to do this once before and now for the life of me I cannot
> remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and all of its
> sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances.
>
> This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicating transactions. It is
> basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expense account hierarchy.
>
> Anyone remember how to do this without creating a new account and eight new
> sub-accounts?
>
> Thanks
> 

 
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Re: Duplicating Accounts?

[Adrien Monteleone]

If you delete a higher level account, you'll get a dialog asking if you
want to delete the subs also or transfer them under another account.

Regards,
Adrien

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:55 AM, Colin Law  wrote:

> On 9 February 2018 at 20:38, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy
>> template,
>> but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then
>> I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while
>> export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree.
>>
>
> You could export the account tree, open that in gnucash, delete all the
> accounts you don't want (they will all be empty of course) and re-export.
> I don't know whether you can delete a top level account and all sub
> accounts in one go or not, if you can then that might be noticeably quicker
> than re-entering them.
>
> Colin
>
>
>>
>> Best of luck.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I figured out how to do this once before and now for thelife of I cannot
>> > remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and allof its
>> > sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances.
>> >
>> > This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicatingtransactions. It
>> is
>> > basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expenseaccount
>> hierarchy.
>> >
>> > Anyone remember how to do this without creating a newaccount and eight
>> new
>> > sub-accounts?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
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Re: Duplicating Accounts?

[Colin Law]

On 9 February 2018 at 20:38, Adrien Monteleone 
wrote:

> I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy template,
> but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then
> I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while
> export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree.
>

You could export the account tree, open that in gnucash, delete all the
accounts you don't want (they will all be empty of course) and re-export.
I don't know whether you can delete a top level account and all sub
accounts in one go or not, if you can then that might be noticeably quicker
than re-entering them.

Colin


>
> Best of luck.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I figured out how to do this once before and now for thelife of I cannot
> > remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and allof its
> > sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances.
> >
> > This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicatingtransactions. It
> is
> > basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expenseaccount
> hierarchy.
> >
> > Anyone remember how to do this without creating a newaccount and eight
> new
> > sub-accounts?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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Re: Duplicating Accounts?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I thought perhaps the route to go would be create a new hierarchy template,
but it seems that is not possible, at least from within the software. Then
I looked at exporting and importing an account tree, but again, while
export is possible, I don't see how to import a partial tree.

Best of luck.

Regards,
Adrien

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> I figured out how to do this once before and now for thelife of I cannot
> remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and allof its
> sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances.
>
> This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicatingtransactions. It is
> basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expenseaccount hierarchy.
>
> Anyone remember how to do this without creating a newaccount and eight new
> sub-accounts?
>
> Thanks
>
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Duplicating Accounts?

[Steve Isenberg via gnucash-user]

I figured out how to do this once before and now for thelife of I cannot 
remember. I am trying to duplicate an expense account and allof its 
sub-accounts, with a new name of course, and zero balances. 

This is not a transfer of funds and I'm not duplicatingtransactions. It is 
basically a copy of one account hierarchy to a new expenseaccount hierarchy.

Anyone remember how to do this without creating a newaccount and eight new 
sub-accounts?

Thanks

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