Reconciliation

[Andy Pastuszak]

I would prefer to use the old behaviour.  Is there a way to do this without
doing a full export and import of all my data?

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Cc:
> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:30 +0100
> > Subject: Re: Reconciliation
> > On Monday 23 February 2015 10:58:52 Andy Pastuszak wrote:
> > > New file has Num and Action.  Sounds like it's time to do an export
> > > and import.
> > >
> > This behavior is controlled by an option under the General tab in the
> > Preferences:
> > "Set book option on new files to use split "action" field for "Num" field
> > in registers/reports"
> >
> > I don't know how that got enabled when you created your current file.
> > But from the help on this option it will only be evaluated when creating
> > a new book. So yes you'll have to restart if you want to change the
> > behaviour. And make sure the option is disabled when you create your
> > new book.
> >
> > Geert
> >
>
> I don't believe this is exactly correct. When you create a new book you are
> given the choice to set this option. It defaults to 'not selected', so Andy
> could have set it, either intentionally or not, when he created the book.
> It is also possible to go and change the setting any time afterwards, So
> Andy may have set it later, also, either intentionally or not. (If you do
> change it later, you will end up with transactions that have the 'number'
> in one field before the change and in another field after the change. There
> is a warning about this in the help description.) Depending on how this
> option is set, the register shows a 'T-num' field on the second line or
> not. That is why some of you are seeing it and some of you are not (you
> don't have that option set).
>
> For users who come from a Quicken background, and transfer their data from
> there, setting that option will make gnucash behave like Quicken in terms
> of how the 'num' field is displayed in different registers (that is, the
> same transaction can have different 'numbers' displayed in different
> registers; the T-num, if used will be the same in all registers for a given
> transaction).
>
> For Andy, if he wants to keep this behaviour, there is no need to start his
> book all over again. If there is a bug in the reconciliation window, I just
> need to fix that. Meanwhile, Andy can do his reconciliations without seeing
> his numbers and just focusing on the amount and dates.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
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