Thank you in advance! I think these new features may be very useful to some so they should be well documented.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 5:18 PM <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > That was likely my bad. I rewrote the Importer documentation a couple of > years > ago after Geert had completed a major rewrite of the CSV importer and > importer > code in general. I was working primarily from experimentation with the > program > and only a passing acquaintance with some areas of the code. Unfortunately > I > don't make a lot of use of the CSV importer these days as most of my > imports are > now OFX. I have been sidetracked on some physics work over the past few > years > and haven't revisited it recently. The working of the append feature at > that > time wasn't very clear to me but there has been a bit of discussion in the > mailing list I can possibly draw on. I will try to make some time to > search out > any recent changes in the append behaviour and update the docs and relook > at the > use of category in that context. It may be useful to reference it > explicitly to > the use of categories in other programs users may be importing data from, > and > again point out explicitly that categories in other programs map onto > accounts > in Gnucash. Most people importing from Quicken are unlikely to use CSV > though. > > David Cousens > > On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 12:23 -0500, David Carlson wrote: > > reference:https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=4&lang=C&doc=help > > > > I wanted to report that one of the help pages for CSV file imports > > contained the word category, at least in the release 4.8 release, but I > > found that the release 4.11 online Help manual does not have the correct > > information specifically for importing in the GnuCash Export format. > > Specifically, it does not have an image of the third step instructions > > prior to the matching step which has the word category in it and it does > > not cover the new features optionally showing the matched fields or > > explaining what the append feature does. > > > > I am not sure what is actually bundled with release 4.11 > > > > Unfortunately I do not have the time to try to fix this myself. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
