What, exactly, does 'cleared' mean (in the context of reconciling)?

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:51:32 -0700


Terry writes:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> > On 14 Sep 2000 17:29:37 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
> > Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>  said:
> > > I'm rewriting a tiny piece or two of the documentation, and now I'm
> > > looking at the stuff about reconciling your accounts
> > > (xacc-recnwin.sgml).  I'd like to write an explanation of what the
> > > letter 'c', in the reconcile window, means ... but I don't know.  I
> > > *think* it means that I've somehow ascertained that my bank is aware
> > > of the transaction, but I have not yet seen it on my monthly
> > > statement.  I cannot find any documentation that explains this.
> > 
> > The four statuses are:
> > a) FREC - 'f'
> >    - Indicating that the transaction has been reconciled, and absolutely
> >      "frozen" into place.  Can't be changed no more.
> Hmmm .. I don't recall ever having seen this flag - what action triggers this
> flag - 'n' is shown upon creation of a transaction, I can click on the field
> and change 'n' to 'c' (haven't yet figured out the usefulness of this), 'n' o
> r
> 'c' gets changed to 'y' after reconciliation as you state. But I have never
> seen 'f'. How do you 'freeze" a transaction?

Right now, there's no way to do that using the GUI.

dave