[GNC] link bank statement to all reconciled transactions?

[David Carlson]

I happen to enter a transaction to some of my bank or credit card accounts
each month to report the balance shown on the statement.  I could assign a
URL or filename to this transaction if desired.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 5:54 PM <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mattia
>
> A reconciliation deals with all the splits to a specifc account for a
> specified
> date range from any transactions to any other account. There is not a
> single
> entity transaction or split to associate a document with. At present AFAIK
> there
> is no way of associating the external statement document to a
> reconciliation
> such that you could open the statement from that association from within
> GnuCash.
>
> If this were to be done it would have to be a link in the account data
> structure
> and either a list of URIs to the documents, not just a single URI, or
> perhaps a
> URI to a directory in which the individual account statements are stored
> which
> would open a OS file open dialog. I store all my statements  (and OFX
> downloads
>  in their own directory) coded with their date range for a given account
> in a
> single directory. I rarely find myself having to go back to past
> reconciliations
> or OFX downloads, so personally this would not be a high priority for me. I
> would use it if available of course.
>
> The GnuCash data structures have a key-value pair feature that could allow
> attachemnt of a URI for reconciliation data to the account data structure
> fairly
> easily, however it is the coding to make this useful which takes the time.
>
> If you think that this is a useful  addition you can raise a bug in the
> form of
> an enhancement request. It would then require one of the develpment team
> to take
> it up and implement it. Unless there is a high demand for the feature and
> availability of a developer with the requisite skills and understanding of
> the
> GnuCash code in that area, then it may take some time to reach the top of
> one of
> the developer's priorities.
>
> David cousens
>
>  On Sat, 2021-10-23 at 19:51 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > somehow my googling doesn't even suggest anybody ever asked this…
> >
> > Is there a way so that all reconciled transactions link to a document
> > (say, the actual bank statement) while also linking to their own
> > attached documents?
> >
> > It feels like this would be solved if a document was property of a
> > split, but being a property of the whole transaction it means only one
> > document per transaction right?
> > Or perhaps a property of the "split:reconciled-state" element, but then
> > it would be even more something attached to the split and not to the
> > transaction I guess.
> >
> >
> > This is even ignoring the fact that there doesn't seem a UI to link the
> > same document to multiple transactions.
> >
> >
> > How do people normally link their "official" bank statement to their
> > books in gnucash?
> >
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David Carlson