Reconcilliation warning dialog bug

[David J. Bakeman]

On 10/28/2013 02:09 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 28 October 2013 20:28, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 10/28/2013 09:24 AM, Ian Konen wrote:
>>> I think this is better in it's own thread, but David Pickett's ongoing
>>> reconciliation thread did bring up what I think should be considered
>>> an actual bug in GnuCash and may be the source of his original error:
>>>
>>> If I reconcile my checking account and then try to change a reconciled
>>> transaction from that register, I get a warning dialog.  Good!...I
>>> probably didn't mean to do that.
>>>
>>> If I switch to an expense account register (presumably not reconciled)
>>> and change the value of a "simple" two split transaction from that
>>> register while in the basic ledger view, GnuCash automatically updates
>>> both splits to the new value, and will not give me warning dialog if
>>> the other account's split had been reconciled.  Now I've changed up a
>>> reconciled split and may not even realize I've done it (cat on the
>>> keyboard as it were).
>> But if you change the amount an Imbalance is created
> No it isn't in the simple case of a transaction which is only a
> transfer from one account to another.  So for example if there is a
> transaction of £10 from bank account to expense account which has been
> reconciled in bank account.  Switch to the expense account (don't
> expand the split) and change the amount.  Then switch back to the bank
> account.  The amount has changed without warning even though it was
> already reconciled.  I think this is a bug.
Right you are I was expanding the split.  I agree this is a bug!
>
> Colin
>