Bugs?

[Phillip Shelton]

Question. Why are we trying to change transactions? Shouldn't a new
transaction that undoes the wrong transaction be entered?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-devel-admin@lists.gnumatic.com
> [mailto:gnucash-devel-admin@lists.gnumatic.com]On Behalf Of Gordon
> Oliver
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:02 AM
> To: Conrad Canterford
> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Bugs?
>
>
> > Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > > Conrad Canterford writes:
> > > > This is potentially a bug. When I modify an entry that has been
> > > > reconciled (reconciled flag = 'y'), it does not change the flag.
> > > > Logically, I would have thought this was incorrect.
> > > > I'm guessing the probably correct way of "fixing" this
> problem is to not
> > > > allow people to edit reconciled entries, but that may
> be a bit heavy
> > > > handed for some peoples liking.
> > > Maybe just a warning dialog to the effect that you are changing a
> > > reconciled transaction. Prevents accidents, but is less
> heavy-handed.
> >
> > Good idea, but my pedantic mind says it should probably
> still change the
> > reconciled flag (I haven't checked the code, would that confuse the
> > reconciliation stuff?).
> >
>
> Depending on how you define the "reconciled transaction" this
> could be heinous.
> It's probably ok for the one branch of the split that has
> been reconciled, but
> when there is a split transaction, the other splits should be
> changeable (e.g.
> a paycheck that gets reconciled in the bank acount, but has
> an error in an
> automatic deposit amount to a different acount...)
> 	-gordo
>
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