It is true in that particular case of yours that the internal account and the name it is mapped to are the same. The difficulty is that the importer has to be able to cope with situations where "Assets:Cheque" in the external record may not necessarily be mapped onto the Assets:Cheque internal GnuCash account. I have been in the situation where I have had multiple checqueing accounts with the same bank for different purposes with in some cases nothing much to distinguish them. There is no guarantee that the name an external provider gives to an account will be the same name you may use in your GnuCash accounts and that it will necessarily match although it usually does in most cases. The importer has to cope as far as possible with all possible use cases not just your particular case.
That the account mapping procedure exists is testimony to the fact the use case where an external account name which is the same as the internal GnuCash name but is not the actual account the transaction should go to occurs sufficiently often that the developers have taken the time and trouble to develop a procedure to make this possible. It is a one off process if you complete the importing process and then that external name is permanently mapped onto the appropriate internal account. Guncash is not written for one individual's use case but to meet the range of use cases that a wide range of users do encounter are likely and do encounter. David On Mon, 2021-05-17 at 05:31 -0500, flywire wrote: > Sample account that shouldn't need manual matching: > > < > http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t374675/GnuCashCsvImportMatchingExample.png > > > > > > -- > 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. -- Dr David R Cousens B.Sc, M.Prof. Acc., Ph.D., G.C.Ed _______________________________________________ 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.
