Chris, the importer _DOES_ do string matching... THERE WAS A BUG. It was fixed on Jan 6. Have you tried 1.7.8. If you still have this importing "problem" with 1.7.8 then let's talk. Until you show me a problem with 1.7.8, I don't want to hear about it.
-derek Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does it seem that everyone agrees on the necessity to do string matching on > imports? At the most basic level it would be nice to have a text box at the > bottom of the import window that lets you enter a string to search for. You > could use this string to highlight entries in the import list then the mass > assign them to another account. That would mostly solve the issues I had > when I so poorly decided to start importing 3 years of credit card > transactions. One extra step would to be to have gnucash "learn" where > transactions are assigned but this is more complex and probably not as > necessary. > > Chris > > > On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:01 pm, Phillip Shelton wrote: > > Yea, that was my understanding, but I do have trouble with writing answers > > to this list that make sense. > > > > If letting the user make the distinction was implementable I would vote > > that it be at least put on the to-do list > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 9:54 AM > > To: Phillip Shelton > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Transaction balancing > > > > > > That wasn't what I meant. I meant should it partial-match on the > > beginning or end of the string? For example, if I have an imported > > memo of "--ONLINE PAYMENT -- VANGAURD 012384564", I probably want to > > match on the first three 'words', but how does the system know this? > > > > There is currently no interface for the user to tell the system what > > substring to match on. Perhaps I know I want to match the WHOLE > > string. Perhaps I want to match only part of it. Right now there is > > no way to let the user make the distinction. > > > > That was my question. > > > > -derek > > > > "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At the end for my data > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 January 2003 8:15 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: Benoit Gr�goire; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Transaction balancing > > > > > > Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind. Also, matching on > > > > the exact same text seems a bit error prone, the memos might > > > > vary by a slight amount for each transaction. > > > > > > At the beginning or the end? I do believe that the matching code > > > will partial-match, but I don't know how partial the match is. > > > I suppose we could try to add some regex matching, but that would > > > require some user input to say what part should be matched. > > > > > > -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 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
