[GNC] Reconciling subaccounts

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks for the details.

I'd say this is a bug, as the expected result would be to have the 
reconcile status of sub-accounts updated.

You should file that on bugs.gnucash.org

It *might* be designed that way however. I could be wrong, but I think 
the idea for this feature is to be used for 'virtual' sub-accounts that 
are used for segregating funds in your own books, but not actual 
multiple real-world accounts with an institution.

The parent is the real account in such a case, so that might be why it 
is the only one marked reconciled with a date. (it is the only one with 
a statement to reconcile against)

In your case, you seem to be trying to reconcile multiple real accounts 
through a placeholder parent. But GnuCash doesn't know that. (or 
'reconciling' non-institution accounts, such as Expenses.)

Until it is 'fixed' or changed, I guess your option is to continue to 
reconcile-finish the sub-accounts to update them, or else just reconcile 
them all individually rather than together as sub-accounts.

Regards,
Adrien

On 10/3/22 4:56 PM, Uttam Chakravorty wrote:
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> My apologies Adrien, I will be more specific.  Line 2 - >Sales -> A/c No 01: all the subsequent lines starting '01-' are the subaccounts.  Reconciling 01 with subaccounts ticked will reconcile all of them, but only update 01's date field.  I then step through the subaccounts and as they are all already reconciled I just press 'Finish' to update their date.
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> Line 11 is a single entry with no subaccounts.
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> Line 12 is similar to Line 2, a Placeholder with three subaccounts.
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> I have tried to indicate the above in Column E, however I have made a mistake with Lines 64, 71 and 77.  They have no subaccounts, I annotated them in error as all the top level accounts are reconciled.  In terms of consistency I failed to annotate Lines 12, 17 and 59.  Looking back this is a scrappy piece of work put together in haste.  I hope you will be able to extract something useful, or I will happily do it again.  Please advise.
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> Line 18 (A/c code 5 (should be 05)) is particularly interesting.  This has subaccounts and they have Placeholders which have subaccounts i.e. three levels deep.  Reconciling the top level reconciles all the other levels, however once more it only updates the date at the top level.
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> I do not find it too onerous to live with this little extra keyboard activity.  I just wondered if I was doing something wrong again.