David, I had a look at both Chapter 3 in the Tutorial and GUide on Importing and Ch6 in the Help Manual. What has happened was the decision was made to move the importing section into the help manual a couple of years ago when I rewrote the Ch6 in the Help manual so I created the rewritten section in the Help manual and the original remains in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide. It should have been removed but I neglected to do it at the time. There is no reference to category in the Ch6 of the Help manual.
I will submit a patch to remove Ch3 in the Guide and will simply add a note that information on importing data is now in the Help manual. Cheers David Cousens On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 01:36 -0500, David Carlson wrote: > I had not looked at the Tutorial version on importing transactions > recently. I see it is now calling itself obsolete and it really is. I do > not want to get into a discussion about which document should contain what > information, but neither should be obsolete. One of them should be very > detailed and could be referenced by the other. > > The help windows included with the import wizards are currently the best > source of information but they are only available while using the wizards. > Unfortunately it is a very slow process to complete an import if there are > more than a dozen or so transactions in the file, and I think even that > fact should be mentioned in the help. There is no help at all for > importing multi-split line transactions which did work correctly for me > with a bank account file created by the GnuCash export process. > > The help manual bundled with the Windows version of release 4.11 at least > contains a couple current illustrations if not good information about the > various details that are needed to get good results. It is the third > import screen which is not illustrated in the help manual that contains the > word category which has a different meaning to former Quicken users than to > GnuCash users. > > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 11:45 PM flywire <flywi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think the GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide is an excellent > > introduction for Getting Started and Managing Personal Finances. The small > > dataset demonstrates a lot. The only thing that really looks dated is the > > checkbook-style transaction descriptions which are very different to modern > > bank transaction descriptions. I understand from general comments in the > > mailing list that others have a different view but I don't think those > > concerns have been clearly described, something that is needed to fix the > > problems. > > > > How about aligning the Help manual Importing transactions from files with > > the Concepts guide transactions? IIRC that's how it was when this section > > was in the guide. I'm happy to contribute. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
