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Bug 680764 - Find by Description/Bulk Select and Move Transactions to Other Acct
Find by Description/Bulk Select and Move Transactions to Other Acct
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Christian Stimming
Geert Janssens
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-07-28 22:27 UTC by Greg Jones
Modified: 2018-06-29 23:09 UTC
See Also:
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Description Greg Jones 2012-07-28 22:27:14 UTC 
Simply a feature request, but it would be nice to be able to either select multiple transactions at a time or select multiple transactions by a description, and change them from one account to another.

Ex.
Select all expenses with string "QT" in description and move from Expenses:Misc to Expenses:QT.

I know there are some workarounds to move all transactions from one account to another via reparenting and deleting, but to move a smaller but yet still significant (30-40%) portion of the transactions is a huge pain. I feel like this is something that could be fairly easily implemented (search and replace being implemented so many times in so many programs), and could really add value to the program.

Thank you for the wonderful program, and for your continued work and improvements!

Greg
Comment 1 Michiel Wittkampf 2013-12-01 09:58:08 UTC 
Agree!
Comment 2 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:09:47 UTC 
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