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Bug 335911 - define rules for generic import transaction matcher
define rules for generic import transaction matcher
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Import - Other
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Christian Stimming
Christian Stimming
: 344303 378545 603289 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-24 23:21 UTC by Flavio
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:00 UTC
See Also:
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Description Flavio 2006-03-24 23:21:15 UTC 
Hi
While importing transactions from an external file (e.g. mt940) you have to
select which accounts each transaction belongs too in a window called "generic
import transaction matcher"

If you have a lot of those, this can be a very tidious task to do.

I suggest that a gui that can let the user define certain values match certain
accounts would be a very helpful feature.

example:

all transactions that are "+$1200" should go into Income:Salary
all transactions that contain the string "car" in the description field go to
Expense:Car or whatever

The rules would be applied directly in the gen. imp. tr. matcher window
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2006-03-27 09:51:39 UTC 
The enhancement is understandable and fine. However, it is not quite trivial how such a GUI should look like in order to be usable by the average (non-programmer) user. Maybe we could re-use part of the "seach a transaction" GUI, where you can build rules for a search... I don't know. In any case I won't work on this anytime soon. 

Just for reference: This enhancement would belong to all importers except QIF, so it would belong to OFX importing, HBCI importing, and aqbanking's file importing of e. g. MT940. Related bugs: bug#98963 bug#
Comment 2 Christian Stimming 2006-10-16 11:13:43 UTC 
*** Bug 344303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Christian Stimming 2006-11-23 17:48:52 UTC 
*** Bug 378545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Christian Stimming 2009-11-29 20:53:30 UTC 
*** Bug 603289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:00:23 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. The new URL for this bug is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335911. Please continue processing the bug there and please update any external references or bookmarks.