Elmar, As David suggested, you can assign values to either increase or decrease then they will either import correctly or opposite. Then choose whatever works correctly.
Most months you will have one transaction that transfers from a bank account and most of the rest will be identified by whatever your credit card calls them. On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 6:33 PM Elmar <etsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry - the csv is comma separated. To post this I dumped it into > libreoffice, the copy/pasted into a text file, which of course removes > the commas. The original is like so: > > Tran Date,Post Date,Description,Ref Number,Amount > 3/20/2021,3/21/2021,[redacted],019918,74.99 > ... > 3/3/2021,3/3/2021,PAYMENT - THANK YOU,,-792.66 > > Sorry for the confusion. This is then in theimporter specification > (obviously skip first line) date, none, description, number, and here I > stumble. The liability account has headers that say Increase, and > Decrease. Now is that a deposit in the importer or a withdrawal? It's > the switches in terminology that confuse me: "amount" in the csv vs. > deposit/withdrawal in the importer vs. increase/decrease in the > liability account. What is which? Is my "amount" a "deposit" that will > translate into an "increase" if a positive value? > > And finally, the matching question is also unresolved. Thanks for the > reply, and apologies for my denseness. - Elmar > > On 4/1/21 6:07 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > Elmar, > > The example you listed is not comma separated... > > .... > One will > assign Debit to +ve amounts and Credit to negative > amounts and the > other will reverse these. Idon't know which way round > it is though. It > will likely be opposite to the assignment you used > to import asset > account data > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
