Editing the "other side" of reconciled transactions

[Donald Allen]

On Jan 13, 2008 2:01 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I'm able to do it in 2.0.5.

/Don

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> Phil
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