[GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

[Adrien Monteleone]

If I read Liz’s latest reply correctly, the issue is with an asset account. (bank)

The status changed when she changed the description.

The status did not change when she changed the debit split to a different expense account.

So GnuCash seems to care if you change who the money was paid to, but not why.

As the reconciliation is of the asset account (based on how much you paid to whom and when, the why being immaterial to the balance) this is probably acceptable behavior.

I would suppose the payee is also immaterial to the balance. I recall long ago reconciling check#s, dates and amounts. The bank rarely had the payee listed on my statement for all checks.

I should think then the only things that should unset the flag are changing:

Date
Amount (for the split(s) for *this* account)
NUM (maybe)

Everything else can be changed without altering the balance as of the reconciliation date.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 7, 2019, at 6:14 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if GnuCash follows exactly the same rules for income and expense
> accounts that it does for asset and liability accounts.  I know that I
> never bother with reconciling income or expense accounts.
> 
> David C
> 
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:22 PM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 07:34:35 -0800
>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you edit reconciled transactions GnuCash marks them unreconciled.
>>> The warning dialog told you that it would.
>>> 
>>> I don’t see any crashes in the open bugs for the QIF importer, so if
>>> the crash was with GnuCash 3.4 please do file a bug report.
>> 
>> This morning I have Gnucash 3.4+ (2018-12-30) from Debian Sid.
>> 
>> I edited the Description of a Reconciled transaction and it became
>> unreconciled.
>> I did this from the relevant (bank) account.
>> 
>> From the same account I edited the transfer account (from one expense
>> to another) and the reconcilation status did not change.
>> 
>> I checked that re-reconciling the account would have the correct effect
>> - it was simply the transaction status which was changed.
>> 
>> Liz
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