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

[David T.]

Indeed. I ask myself, "which character do I see after invoking this 
option?" It isn't "R"--it is "C."

Furthermore, the imported transaction isn't "Reconciled," it is 
"Cleared." You still have to reconcile it.

As for changing the Reconcile value to "R," well, that goes a little 
further down the path, and leads me logically to the thought that the 
field should then be renamed "Status." At this point, it feels like 
we're beginning to stray from the broader (as in beyond GnuCash) 
community terminological consensus. And we're making a lot of work for 
programmers and documentationers.

David

On 8/6/2019 4:29 PM, Fross, Michael wrote:
> 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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