OFX Importer and Transaction Matcher

[Benoit Grégoire]

On Monday 14 February 2005 00:35, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Benoit Grégoire <bock at step.polymtl.ca>:
> > > I disagree that ANY uncleared transactions should be a candidate to
> > > match..
> >
> > WHAT? How else is gnucash to know that the transaction cleared?
>
> My point is that given a particular import-transaction, EVERY uncleared
> existing transaction should not be a match-candidate.  The potential
> matches should be limited to "reasonable" transactions, not ANY
> transaction.

I must completely misunderstand what you are saying.  It's the TYPICAL case 
that the "real" matching transaction was previously uncleared, unless you 
enter all your transaction manually, clear them using your ATM statements and 
use the OFX import purely for reconciling purposes.  

-- 
Benoit Grégoire, http://benoitg.coeus.ca/
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