[GNC] Importing causes 'y' in reconciliation?

[Stephen M. Butler]

Sounds like a bug.

Stephen M Butler
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On 8/1/24 12:58, Mark at Lorimark wrote:
> Hi Steve, yes but this seems like it's setting the R to 'y' which is 
> really odd to me.  I can see setting it to 'c', but not 'y'.
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> ~mark petryk
> ~w:http://www.lorimarksolutions.com
>
> On 8/1/24 14:01, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> On 8/1/24 11:01, Mark at Lorimark wrote:
>>> Helping someone out with their new GnuCash experience, regarding 
>>> importing and reconciliation. He reports that after an import, the 
>>> reconciliation balances are off, and the account balances are off.
>>>
>>> I looked at his register, and he had reconciled 5 months or so, and 
>>> then following those reconciled transaction, were 'c' and 'n' type 
>>> transaction, and then intermixed with those were some also 'y' 
>>> transactions.
>>>
>>> We're not sure how that happened.  Does importing set the 
>>> reconciliation status to 'y' at any time for any reason?
>>
>> Yes, depending on which boxes you checked during the import. Since 
>> most times you are importing from the "authenticating source", you 
>> want the import to go ahead and set the flag that this has been 
>> "cleared" at the source.
>>
>> It may also find that you already had that transaction (such as a 
>> payment to the CC) and it will then simply Match&Clear rather than 
>> loading a whole new transaction.  By changing the check boxes you can 
>> change that behavior.
>>
>> --Steve
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