[GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

[John Ralls]

David,

No, Gunter meant what he said. If the bank's response to a FinTS or OFX DirectConnect
query includes a balance, GnuCash will pop a dialog telling you that and allow you 
to reconcile. If you reconcile it will skip the reconcile info dialog and open
the reconcile window with the statement date set to now and the statement balance
set to what the bank sent. This dance is separate from the matcher window dance, and
the bank-sent-balance dialog pops up at the end of communication rather than waiting
for the matcher window to complete.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 16, 2020, at 8:45 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> hi Geert
> 
> The first was really about directConnect OFX imports, not something I am all
> that familiar with since banks here won't allow us access. Another user in
> the discussion around Bug 797668 which I initially raised had mentioned
> direct reconciliation in the import of OFX directly from the bank. I may
> have misunderstood Gunter's comment that that procedure was starting the
> reconcile procedure and automaticallly reconciling.  I was trying to say
> tthat if the bank provided enough information that matched the GnuCash
> information, it may be possible to reconcile automatically but I think
> Gunter was actually referring to the marking of the transactions as cleared
> so it appeared checked when the reconcilaition was initiated.
> 
> Agreed that the statement date is totally independent of the transaction
> date. The dates in a statement will all fall between the end date of the
> last statement +1 (the start date of the current statement) and the end date
> of the current statement as the statement dates are inclusive.
> 
> The importers as far as I can tell  so far (OFX and CSV) don't set the
> reconcile flag to 'y' only to 'c' and the reconcile date is set to TODAY in
> the importing process. This shouldn't affect the manual reconcilaition
> process though which should set the reconciliation date to the statement end
> date when the flag is set to 'y'.
> 
> I am currently trawling through the code to satisfy myself that I understand
> fullywhat is happening and will update the documentation accordingly if the
> update i did last year is misleading.
> 
> Davdi
> 
> 
> 
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