[GNC] Proposed change of "U+R" and "R" in the Import main matcher.

[Robin Chattopadhyay]

+1

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:53 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> I have raised bugs in the
> code(https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797338) and documentation
> (https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797337) proposing changing the
> "U+R" and "R" tags in the import main matcher to "U+C" and "C" where the
> curent use of R refers to the term reconciliation. The use of the term
> reconciliation in this context may cause some confusion with the
> reconciliation process of checking transactions for a period against an
> external statement, particularly for new users. The import matcher does
> not
> assign a "reconciled" status to an imported transaction but does set it as
> "c" cleared. You would not normally be importing transactions in which the
> splits to the account being imported to are already reconciled, i.e.
> marked
> "y" in a register however this might occur if you are importing records
> separately to a credit and a bank account where there are transfers
> between
> them (credit card payments). In this case the importer would flag the
> record
> not to be imported where there is an exact match to an existing
> transaction.
> AFAIK there is no checking of the reconciliation status of the existing
> transaction in GnuCash in the matching process but I may not yet have dug
> deeply enough.
>
> In a discussion with John Ralls and Frank Ellenberger over other changes
> to
> the import matcher documentation, I initially proposed "U+M" and "M". John
> felt "U+C" and "C were more indicative and clearer.
>
> I am raising this here to canvas a wider audience before making the
> changes.
> Please comment here preferrably (or in the bug comments)  if you have any
> objections/support  to the proposed change .
>
> As John has suggested this is copied from GnuCash Dev to GnuCash users to
> further widen the input.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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