[GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

[Christopher Lam]

https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771667

On Tue., 8 Jan. 2019, 13:01 Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net wrote:

> 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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