Reconcile Window

[David T.]

David,

I imagine that such features would be helpful in the circumstances to which you refer. Thankfully, I am not in the circumstance of having that many transactions to mess with! However, on the occasions where I have had to do similar procedures, a "Select All" or "Change All After” function would be nice. 

For the first, it is common now to have a check box in the menu bar above the boxes for individual transactions, which, when checked, toggles the boxes of all transactions below. Many webmail programs (e.g., Yahoo! and Google webmail) use this model, and it would be nice to have here as well.

As for the second, I suspect this would be a more involved feature to implement. It would also be less generically used, and thus might not tickle a developer’s fancy

David T.

> On Jan 15, 2017, at 12:26 PM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi When i am reconciling my accounts, when the reconcile window opens usually
> a large number of transactions have been automatically matched and ticked in
> the R column. This is a nice feature if no transactions are missing or have
> been incorrectly entered, but if this is the case, it can make it difficult
> to find the transaction that is missing.  I usually do this by unselecting
> all the transactions and then reselecting them as I match them with
> transactions in the statement. 
> 
> This is OK if there are only a few transactions but I have a number of
> accounts where there are several hundred to a thousand transactions in the
> statement period and just unselecting by clicking on each transaction them
> becomes onerous.  I have not been able to find any reference to deselecting
> all transactions in the help file.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to deselect all transactions which have been
> automatically selected using a button or menu item in the reconcile window
> to speed up this process. Am I alone in desiring such a feature or do others
> experience this same difficulty.
> 
> I have also on occasion had to undo a previous reconciliation back to a
> previous statement date and redo the reconciliation (usually if I have made
> errors in the reconciliation or the automatic process referred to above has
> mismatched transactions and I have not detected them). Again not a huge
> problem where there are only a few transactions in the statement period but
> when there are four clicks required to unreconcile a transaction and several
> hundred transactions this becomes very onerous and time consuming. 
> 
> The ability to unreconcile all transactions after a given statement date in
> a single operation would certainly assist in doing this. 
> 
> Am I missing an obvious way to perform the above operations. If not is it a
> generally desirable feature?
> 
> cheers
> David Cousens
> 
> 
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