Editing the "other side" of reconciled transactions

[Phil Longstaff]

Tim Jackson wrote:
> I've been using GnuCash for many years, and one thing puzzles me. I'm 
> not sure whether this is something I've ever been able to do, or 
> something that's changed in GC2:
>
> If I have a transaction reconciled on one side but not the other, why 
> can't I change the account which the non-reconciled side is pointing to? 
> This is very frequent when I, for example have a transaction like this:
>
>                              Debit   Credit
> Some Transaction:
>    Assets:My Bank Account    1.00
>    Expenses:Something                 1.00
>
> Now, I reconcile my bank accounts monthly (in accordance with the 
> statements I receive), which is fine. However, I often want (e.g. at the 
> end of a year) to "juggle around" the expenses to which payments are 
> allocated, perhaps to gain a greater sense of granularity or just to 
> make things more consistent. Logically (to me) I should be able to do 
> this without affecting the reconciliation status, because I'm not 
> changing the reconciled side of the transaction. However, GC doesn't 
> appear to be allow me to do this without:
>
> - remembering the reconciled amount on the bank account
> - forcibly unreconciling the bank account side (which makes the account
>    reconciliation wrong)
> - Making the change
> - Re-reconciling the bank account with the previously-memorised figure
>
> This seems like a slow, "dangerous" (from the point of view of 
> unreconciling stuff which is correctly reconciled) and wholly 
> unnecessary procedure.
>
> I can't find anything in the docs, or an option to disable this behaviour.
>
> Can anyone convince me of why it works like this and/or give me a 
> workaround? Or should I file a feature request? (or is there already one?)
>   
What version are you using?  I can edit the other side of a reconciled 
transaction in 2.2.3, and I am sure I've done it in previous versions.

Phil