[GNC] Reconciling subaccounts

[R Losey]

I kind of like it the way it is currently, for what it's worth.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:20 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Line 11 is a single entry with no subaccounts.
> >
> >
> > Line 12 is similar to Line 2, a Placeholder with three subaccounts.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>
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