[GNC] Reconciliation Changes

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Lisa 

It may help if you can tell us what the previous version was and which version
you have now upgraded to.

On the reconciliation setup dialog under the Ending Balance entry there is a
checkbox "Include subaccounts" which AFAIK by default is not checked. Try
selecting that when starting the reconciliation and see if that restores some of
the functionality you are used to. As far as I can tell once you have selected
that option in the dialog for a given account it remains in force for subsequent
reconciliations until you unselect it again but I am not completely sure how
sticky that option is and whether it does set a flag in the account structure. 

Any reconciliation process only acts on a single account and as such only marks
the splits of a transaction into that that account. You do not reconcile a whole
transaction unless you have individually reconciled  all accounts that the
transaction has splits to. Splits to an account which has not been reconciled
will generally be marked with a "n" ( and maybe a "c" in some cases) and splits
to a reconciled account with a "y". If a previous version of GNuCash did do this
then that behaviour was incorrect. I have been using GnuCash for a similar
period of time and I can't recall any version in which a whole transaction not
just the split was reconciled.

David Cousens

On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 12:29 -0700, Lisa Reynoso wrote:
> I've used GNU cash for years. Like, over 15 years. I used it before I was
> married, so it's definitely been more than 15 years.
> 
> Anyway, I never upgrade except when I get a new computer, and then I
> install whatever is the latest, and transfer the files from the old version
> (or in my most recent case, I just started over, because the computer
> reformatted without my permission--yeah, that was a nightmare!). When this
> latest install happened, something had changed about how the reconciliation
> works. Always before when I had a transfer from one subaccount within an
> account to another, or if it was a split transaction, when I would check
> one box in the reconciliation window, all boxes pertaining to that
> transaction would check. For example, suppose I had extra gas money at the
> end of the month, but had overspent my grocery fund. I could transfer from
> the gas to the grocery subaccounts, and when I reconciled, I could check
> one box and it would mark them on both the credit and debit sides, without
> me having to hunt for the opposite transaction. Likewise, when I deposit a
> check, I usually divide it among various accounts, and all I had to do was
> click one of the subaccount deposits, and all the other deposits from the
> same check would be marked as well. Now, that's not the case. And I can't
> find an old enough version for Windows 10 that does that anymore. Anyone
> have any ideas? It now takes almost twice as long for me to reconcile,
> since I have a lot of subaccounts and do a lot of internal transferring
> within my checking account that doesn't show up on my bank statement.
> Having to look for the parallel transactions or figuring out which split
> transactions go together takes more time. I'm almost ready to try to find
> some other software, but I've used this for so long I really don't want to
> switch.
> 
> Lisa
>