[GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

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On May 1, 2019, at 11:55 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

>Justin,
>> On May 1, 2019, at 11:46 AM, Justin Vallon <justinvallon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 

<snip>

>It is trivial to re-reconcile a period if the edit was minor and you do this quickly after the edit. (which is why the warning is there, and probably should not be turned off, so there is no ‘hidden’ clearing of flags)

Adrien, re-reconciling a simple transaction may be trivial (and it may not)--but it becomes deeply challenging if you change the description on a complex transaction that has 7 or 8 reconciled splits in different accounts. Pay check transactions for me are like this. If, by chance, you are changing how you recorded these regular transactions, you will quick have hundreds of splits across the chart of accounts to rework. That has happened to me, and it's no fun tracking it all down.


David

>If *you* know the change was immaterial, simply click the Reconcile button in the toolbar while *still* viewing the account, change the date to the end of the affected period, check off the one transaction and click the button to complete the reconciliation.
>We had a thread a few months back about what really needs to trigger the clearing of the flag. I’m of the opinion that only date and amount matter, I can see that perhaps NUM *might* be wise to keep, but personally don’t use it as a transaction number often. Certainly, correcting a typo in Description, notes, memo splits, or any splits that don’t affect the current register, should not clear the flag.
>> 
>> It would seem the opinion here is whether "transaction description" (and
>> the others) is a material change.  It seems like that would be a good
>> choice for an option, maybe per-attribute (tran date, tran num, tran
>> desc, split num, split desc).
>File an RFE on Bugzilla and/or contribute code to make it happen...
>> 
>> -Justin
>> 
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