David Brown, Your post is a bit contradictory.
Do you want to "transfer all individual accounts to the single parent account?” or Do you want "to have a single parent and 5 child accounts?” Those are two different things. To accomplish the first, that is, move all transactions from five separate accounts to any other account (combining all 5 into 1) then do as Liz mentioned and delete them. As you do so, you’ll be asked either to assign the transactions to an existing account or delete them entirely. To accomplish the second, which is what it appears you are trying to do, (re-organize the account tree) then simply edit the 5 accounts, make sure their type is consistent with their new parent, and assign the new parent to them. (so they are now child accounts instead of top-level) Regards, Adrien > On Dec 13, 2018, at 9:44 AM, D via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > Which is covered in the wiki at > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#Moving_Multiple_Transactions > > David > > On December 13, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:33:13 -0000 > <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> wrote: > >> Thursday 13th Dec >> I have set up 5 accounts to allocate particular categories of >> transactions. They are each top of the tree. >> I want to have a single parent and 5 child accounts. How can I >> transfer all individual accounts to the single parent account without >> changing each transaction manually. >> In the "Accounts" tab I can right click on an expense account and the >> option to "Transfer Funds" dialog box appears. It is not clear to me >> and find difficulty in finding the same in the help documentation. >> Kind regards >> >> David >> >> > By being cunning, and using the feature which reallocates all the > transactions to another account when you delete an account with > transactions. > > Liz > _______________________________________________ > 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.
