David, Thanks for taking this on. I'd noticed as well that the Guide was rather limited in its explanation for these settings. Explaining what each option does as will as offering some ideas why a user might want one setting over another would be advisable.
Frank, As I mentioned, I no longer use these mechanisms, but I'm glad to see that options exist. Do you happen to know when they were added-- or were they always there, and I never knew it? Either it's off course possible. Now, back to lurking. David T. -------- Original Message -------- From: David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> Sent: Mon Apr 13 03:17:52 GMT+05:30 2020 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Keeping Imported Transactions from Overwriting Data? Frank The help manual really doesn't include any information on what happens with the description information with the A, U+C or C options during import. When I updated that last year I was primarily thinking about the effects on the Date and Amount but I don't remember seeing what happened with the description in each case. I'll go back and look at the code again and see if I can work out exactly what happens with all fields in each case and update the docs accordingly. My preference would be to merge both description fields appending one to the other, prferrably with the banks following mine that way at least there is no loss of information and if irrelevant info from the bank is included then you can always delete it later. There are cases in my imports where if the bank info contains something identifying the origin of the transaction the information it can be useful. David ----- David Cousens -- 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.
