Mainly because your particular use case is not the only one that the importing process has been designed to meet and the import process has to survive at least some common problems in the implementation by various sources of files and a considerable variety in the amount of information supplied by different sources of files.
AFAIK you can't skip the initial step of assigning account names in the transfer field to accounts in the GnuCash account heirarchy which is a one off mapping step which occurs the first time an account name appears in a transfer account field. Once that mapping is created it is applied to all future import with that name in the transfer field. There is little value in assigning full account paths here as they still have to be mapped once (although there is no problem in doing so). If all your data contains a transfer account then you can effectively skip the matching process. If all the backgrounds to all the rows are green and have the A column checked, just hit OK. A possible new feature here would be an option which could be set in the importer user preferences to automatically trigger the OK if the above criteria were met on all rows. That doesn't exist at the moment. If any have a gold background a transfer account has not been assigned (could be a typo in the field for example) but this should not happen if you are specifying transfer accounts as the account mapping process should be initiated and you will assign an account. If either the U+R or R ( recently changed to U+C and C) checkboxes are checked and the backgound is green then an imported transaction has been matched against an existing transaction. The matching takes place within a date range window and some tolerances on the amount. If you are confident that these have not been imported previously just change the checkbox to A. A red background to a row indicates that the transaction did not meet the criteria for automatic assignment and that manual intervention is required to complete import of that row. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
