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

[Fross, Michael]

I agree as well. This was confusing to me when I started.

 I also think instead of putting a “Y” in the reconciled column in the
register, I would put a “R”.

Michael

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:46 PM Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +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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