Let's get this cleared up:
You're telling us that *all* of your expense accounts are *not* under
the top-level 'Expenses' account but exist as each their own top-level
account? (but maybe of 'type' Expense)
If so, that sounds like an error (I'll hazard, user) in the import.
The easiest thing would be to ditch that book and do it again, being
certain this time to indicate that the categories are expense accounts
and belong under the top-level Expense account as a parent. I'm not
certain of the UI mechanics there as I've never done this transition
myself. Others can likely help. (or maybe you missed something in the Wiki?)
If they are already under Expenses, such as:
Expenses:Telephone
Then if you simply want to create intermediate hierarchy levels like:
Expenses:Utilities:Telephone
Create the intermediary accounts, mark them as Placeholders, then
re-parent the relevant accounts under them.
Regards,
Adrien
On 12/4/22 12:15 PM, Scott Traurig wrote:
Nope, sorry, you gents did not understand my question.
I don't have any unwanted accounts. Indeed, all of my categories in Quicken
were well thought out and organized, and well replicated as separate
expense accounts in GnuCash via the import process.
But with some 100 different, well organized and well thought out expense
accounts, I don't want them all at the top level, which is where GnuCash
puts them upon import.
In the GnuCash paradigm, I now have top level placeholder accounts for
assets, liabilities, income and expenses. For income, assets and
liabilities it was not much of a chore to move those few accounts that were
imported to be under their proper, respective placeholders in
the hierarchy. But now I need to move all 100 or so expense accounts,
intact, from the top level to underneath the top level, placeholder expense
account. That's a huge PITA if I have to edit the properties of each one
individually. Drag and drop would be a modern UI method for this, alas it
does not exist in GnuCash.
Is there an easy way to do this, or just grunt it out?
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