QFX Import and Reconciled Transactions

[David Carlson]

DaveC49,

If it appeared that I was talking to you I apologize.  I was using a
cellphone and couldn't see what I was doing.

I was trying to emphasize to Ramble that importing should not be confused
with reconciling.

The documentation has been very sparse and vague so it does not help to
clear up confusion.

I believe that some work is being done to improve the process in the 3.0
release, but I have not had time to research what is going on.

David C

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:57 PM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Agreed that the process of importing of transactions to an account is a
> separate and distinct process from that of reconciliation with an external
> statement.
>
> Given that however, the import process, if it matches an existing
> transaction in your accounts will classify a transaction as "Reconcile
> (auto) match" and the R column is checked. What I am unsure of is whether
> this will set the "reconciled" flag on the transaction.
>
> I just tried reimporting an OFX file which I imported earlier today and it
> correctly matched all transactions as currently existing ( these had not
> been reconciled against a statement and the reconcile flag was not set in
> the account register). I was reluctant to hit OK to see whether it sets the
> reconcile flag on the transaction records, but I took the risk of having to
> unset a month's records, and it *does not *set the reconcile flag on
> re-importing and justs skips importing the records which is the desirable
> behaviour (from my point of view). It is the use of reconcile in the
> context
> of importing that is confusing. I would prefer to see a more explanatory
> message like "Auto match to existing record - skipping import" in that
> comment field, i.e. not use reconcile in this context because of the
> confusing the process with reconciliation.
>
> The original question I answered was referring, I think, specifically to
> the
> import process matching imported transactions to already reconciled
> transactions, i.e. those with the reconcile flag already set in the account
> register and  not just the R column set in the import process (and the
> "Reconcile (auto) match" in the comment field of the transaction).
>
> I have not specifically tested whether Gnucash actually does that yet but I
> will give it a go with a test set of books later today and see what
> actually
> does happen.  I remember finding documentation of the Bayesian matching and
> what the flags (A, U+R, R ) mean being veryhard to come by a year or two
> ago
> and John Ralls spelled it out for me in a reply to a question at that time,
> however I can't find that in the archives but this one  does have it
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/How-does-AqBanking-
> work-A-U-R-and-R-td4661099.html
> or
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/When-importing-QFX-
> what-does-U-R-actually-do-td4689755.html.
>
>
>
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