[GNC-dev] [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

[Christopher Lam]

Thank you all; having considered all feedback, there will be an upcoming
3.10 with the old reconcile behaviour reverted.

I agree that this "fix", although correct in principle, was premature
because it could not handle invalid data.

The reason I feel/felt that rollback this "fix" and to tolerate invalid
data (without a book property or a book feature) is highlighted exactly by
David Carlson's opinion: if old data was not consistently precise in
requiring accurate reconciliation statement dates, it could mean that
fixing reconciliation dates safely is practically impossible; I do not
think there is a safe one-time scrubbing mechanism (either silently as are
other scrubs in existence, or UI-driven) which is guaranteed to work well.
With a book property/feature approach, a natural progression of this "fix"
is that reconciled dates & balances *will* be stored and can a
data-integrity check be re-run anytime, thereby providing reconciled
balance assertions. But this will be reserved for a future time.

So, 3.10 is planned for this weekend.

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 01:02, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Some users like me did a lot of mis-managed reconciling while importing old
> data into currently used accounts and just reconciling years of
> transactions as of the current month instead of trying to obsessively go
> back years and assign the transactions to years-old statements, especially
> when reconcile dates cannot be viewed in the UI.  While I doubt that we
> would want to correct those old transactions, if reconcile dates would
> somehow become visible sometime in the future, we might need to
> occasionally find and fix some transactions here and there, especially if
> they had been re-reconciled to the wrong month after an edit erroneously
> un-reconciled them.
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> wrote:
>
> > David T.
> >
> > Yes I did correct and eliminate the problem by editing the data file
> > directly and I also agree this is not really viable for the average
> user. I
> > only had one incorrectly entered date in one account and for users who
> have
> > many years of data the situation could be considerably more complex. I
> also
> > had external information about when I had performed past reconcilaitions
> so
> > my fix was a simple search and replace once I had verified that it was a
> > single reconciliation date and the splits which were incorrect agreed
> with
> > the date I suspected should have been entered.
> >
> > I made some suggestions in the DEV forum in response to Chris's options
> for
> > a way forward by making the feature optional which may allow the feature
> to
> > be retained but switched off by default in preexisting datafiles and only
> > switched on by default in new data files that may allow retention of the
> > feature with no disruption for user's with files which may have wrong
> past
> > reconciliation dates. It obviously depends on how easy the changes needed
> > to
> > implement that are.
> >
> > Another user has raised a separate issue which seems to be associated
> with
> > a
> > different startup of the reconciliation process automatically when using
> > AQbanking to import balances which may or may not be related. He has
> raised
> > a separate bug report and I have closed the one I raised as resolved.
> >
> > David Cousens
> >
> >
> >
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