I get it. I have to create a training session of sorts. January ought to do it. I will try that tomorrow. Thanks to both of you, David Carlson and Greg Feneis.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:43 PM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps, before importing, add a "Groceries" sub account to your expenses > account. Then, instead of importing the entire checking account from your > bank, just import a month's worth of records or so. In the matcher step, > assign transfer accounts accordingly. Then import the remaining records for > that checking account from your bank. This lets you teach GnuCash how to > assign, at first, then on the second import, GnuCash does most of the work > on the majority of the records. > > Kind regards, Greg Feneis > (Pixel 3) > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 18:20 David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Welcome to GnuCash and to the GnuCash-User Maillist. > > > > GnuCash is set by default to "remember" the transfer account assignment > and > > to attempt to make the same assignment to similar looking transactions in > > future imports. It uses a process called Bayesian Matching, which is not > > perfect, but it usually makes pretty good guesses after a training > process. > > > > When you import transactions there is a step where you assign a > "transfer" > > account to each transaction or, after the first time, you approve > GnuCash's > > guess or override it with your correct information. If you do not make > > corrections in that step, GnuCash cannot "learn" the correct assignments, > > and it may even make more "misteaks" later. > > > > David Carlson > > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 5:24 PM Bitmancer <isaac.a.stodd...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Just starting out to use GnuCash. Imports fine from my bank to my > > Checking > > > account. > > > Now I have to make sense of it all! > > > > > > In the Checking ledger, there are many different creditors. For > example, > > > "Kroger" in the Description field. How can I label all "Kroger" entries > > > with > > > "Expenses:Groceries" in the Transfer column? If I can make this > happen, I > > > can do all my repetitive transactions and catch up on 8 months of data > > > faster. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Carlson > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.