[GNC] Reconciliation flag revision

[Adrien Monteleone]

There is a warning. You get to continue to edit the transaction and thus clear the flag, or cancel and don’t edit the transaction. There is not an option to both edit and not clear the flag.

Note, the flag only clears for amounts, accounts, NUM, and I suspect dates, but I didn’t test that last one yet.

As John Ralls noted in an earlier reply, NUM was added as a trigger for this in response to a bug report. NUM might be a check number, which should not be changed once reconciled. (at least not without confirming this by re-reconciling)

The casual user simply should re-reconcile the account if you really need to change one of these fields. If you don’t want to do it on the spot, simply mark that split as cleared ‘c’ and it will be checked off for you on the next reconciliation. Since you aren’t changing the amounts, this will not throw off the reconciliation calculations. It will just be ‘cleaning up’ and confirming that transaction is now correct.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 13, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Dale Alspach <alspachde at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have not switched to the 3.x version so I have no experience with the
> implementation. However I find the notion of unreconciling
> a transaction to be strange. Reconciliation is normally about matching a
> group of transaction to an external document such as a bank or credit card
> statement. Changing the flag from y to n of one or more transactions breaks
> the reconciliation. What is the casual user supposed to do at this point?
> 
> At minimum the user should be given the option of preserving the
> reconciliation flag. Popping up a warning puts the user on notice that
> there may be a material change but the user is responsible for deciding
> this and what to do about it.
> 
> Dale
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