[GNC] How to stop a Transfer Funds dialogue autmatically appearing after reconciliation?

[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2020-09-21 00:30, Christopher Lam wrote:
> Try the preference setting Register / Reconciling / Automatic credit card
> payment
>
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, 3:12 pm Jim DeLaHunt, <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, folks:
>>
>> I have been catching up on reconciliation of a few credit card accounts
>> this weekend. For one credit card account, when I click the "Finish"
>> button to complete the reconciliation, a Transfer Funds dialogue appears
>> automatically. It has the ending balance of the credit card account
>> filled in, and is set to transfer from a convenient chequing account to
>> the credit card account.

Christopher:

Right you are! Unchecking the checkbox setting in Preferences… Register… 
Reconciling… Automatic credit card payment does in fact stop this 
Transfer Funds dialogue from appearing.

I think the documentation on Reconciliation should describe this better 
than it does. I opened enhancement requires Bug 797950 - "Reconcilation 
docs don't mention automatic credit card payment feature" 
<https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797950> to track this.

>> Only this one credit card account behaves this way. For other credit
>> card accounts, finishing the reconciliation does not cause a Transfer
>> Funds dialogue to appear.

I looked at the other two accounts, describing credit cards, for which 
the Transfer Funds dialogue did not appear. It turns out that I had set 
up these two Accounts as type Liability, rather than as type Credit 
Card. It had not made a difference for me until now.  I have other 
Accounts of type Credit Card, but I had not tried to reconcile them yet.

Thank you for your help.