reconcile reset? and related issues

[Maris]

Meanwhile I suggested myself the following: The left side of the  
reconciliation window could also be partially empty/invisible because of a  
whole lot of payments that gnucash reminds of executing them upon program  
invocation. Indeed, when I test it (simply assign a payment to a sample  
invoice) this payment entry appears in the reconciliation window of the  
A/P-account. So, in a nutshell: I cannot ignore these payment assignments  
(as I did until now). But this contradicts with my workflow, which is as  
follows:
I do my bookkeeping in certain time intervals, entering vendor invoices  
and IMPORTING bank transactions. With this "mass" import (e.g. once a  
month) many actual invoice payments are among them. I'd expect that  
reconciliation of the associated A/P-account should automatically set  
payment flags where I tick matches. Instead, I have to assign payments  
using the appropriate dialog, and then delete the equivalent bank account  
entry from the import.

Note that the behaviour is not similar on the A/R resp. customer invoice  
side. Here all entries appear in the reconciliation dialog, also when not  
explicitly marked as payed using the intended method. Here I can  
successfully do reconciliation. However, when I afterwards do "official"  
payment assignment, in order to have "payed" flags appear in an invoice  
list, then I also get a double payment record in the bank account. Here a  
deletion of the imported equivalent entry would cause an imbalance in  
reconciliation, so this is practically prohibited.

All in all, I feel that some discussion about workflow is due. Perhaps I  
should modify my workflow, but it makes importing data batches more  
painful.


On Fri, 13 May 2011 23:52:39 +0200, Maris <maris.rob at vdi.de> wrote:

> I've got probably a bit in a mess while doing some reconciliation  
> actions. Anyway, after some pause in doing a gnucash job and updating  
> from 2.2.9 to 2.4.5, I've learned more about this fine feature. However  
> upon an A/P-account (just not on the complementary A/R-account there  
> appears to be a whole bunch of 2010 entries apparently marked as  
> reconciled (no visible entries), while the right side shows unticked  
> entries that I cannot match with left side entries.
>
> Question: I'd like to reset the reconciliation for any particular  
> account, so that I can start reconcile that account from scratch again.  
> Anyway, it is not possible to alter the flags in the account register.  
> Other account registers have an R column, but A/P & A/R don't. Instead,  
> they have a "type" flag (with ?, I and P) modi, where I do not find  
> infos about it (I found that I makes entries readonly, and that it  
> cannot return to ? again).
>
> Any help is highly appreciated, since I'm quite in a :( mood after  
> investigating it extensively...
>
> -Rob
>
>
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