John, It’s not entirely clear what you’re asking for. It sounds as if you want to create year-based account trees within your main GnuCash data file. IOW:
Assets:Checking:2017 Assets:Checking:2018 Assets:Investment:2017 Assets:Investment:2018 or perhaps: Assets:2017:Checking Assets:2017:Investment Assets:2018:Checking Assets:2018:Investment There is nothing to prevent you from implementing such a structure, but it will likely result in a great deal of work for you, as there is no automation to support this. If, however, you are looking to set up separate annual data files for gnucash (i.e., mybooks-2017.gnucash and mybooks-2018.gnucash) you should look at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Closing_Books> for discussions relating to this. The short answer to your specific question about availability of automating tools is, “no, there are no such tools.” I will also tell you that a perennial topic on these lists is whether or not such steps are useful or needed, with opinions on many sides. You could google “closing books site:lists.gnucash.org <http://lists.gnucash.org/>” to see some of these discussions. HTH, David T. > On Apr 22, 2018, at 10:14 AM, johnblue <john.b...@rrcic.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to use individual folders to sort each year with the .gnucash > database file named with the corresponding year. > > eg: 2018.gnucash > > Is there way to create a new "account" that is prepopulated with my bank, > credit card, mortgage and expense categories information using automation as > opposed to manual entry? > > Thanks! > > > > -- > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
