[GNC] GC reconcile window problems

[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2025-12-25 20:00, John H. via gnucash-user wrote:

> Two cases, two different accounts:
> Case 1. They are the first four transactions by ordered date - two debits followed by two credits. ... The four transaction are the first four calendar reconciliation period transactions, i.e., two credits and two debits.
OK, the behaviour you observe is that the Reconcile Window shows four 
transactions. What behaviour do you expect?  What transactions are in 
that account's register, which do not appear in the Reconcile Window, 
which you expect to appear?
> Case 2. The transactions are also ordered by date. They include the first two debits in the reconciliation period and also the first two credits.

Again, this explains the behaviour you observe. What behaviour do you 
expect? What transactions are in the accounts register, which don't 
appear but you expect to?


> [Case 2.] Also, the Initial Reconciliation Window had defaulted to 31 March 2025 and I changed it to 30 November 2025 (but did not save). All transactions  between March and October are reconciled and are marked with a "y" so there is no reason that the default statement date should not be 30 November 2025.

If I understand, what you call the Initial Reconciliation Window is 
shown in Figure 2.28 of the GnuCash Guide. The one date there is 
labelled, Statement Date. I believe that GnuCash sets this date to be a 
certain number of days after the Statement Date you set the last time 
you completed reconciliation for that account. My understanding is that 
the dates of reconciled transactions in that account are not a factor.  
That is a "reason that the default [i.e. closing] statement date] should 
not be 30 November 2025". Sometimes GnuCash guesses wrong. That is no 
big deal. Just enter a corrected statement date.

> The Initial Reconciliation Window now shows the current reconciliation period, 11 Nov 2025 to 15 Dec 2025. (It did not originally show the correct date, but now it does after I changed it and saved.)

I do not know what "reconciliation period" you are referring to. The 
window in Figure 2.28 does not have a starting date, just a [closing] 
statement date.

> It appears that the system wants the first two debits and the first two credits. If it had wanted the first four transactions, per se, it would have chosen no debits but rather all four would be credits.

I can tell you from my experience that GnuCash is happy to show me tens 
of transactions in a Reconcile Window for one statement reconciliation. 
Your copy of GnuCash may impose a limit, but I don't think that is 
inherent to GnuCash.

Best regards,
      —Jim DeLaHunt


> Dec 25, 2025, 20:12 byjralls at ceridwen.us:
>
>> Is there anything that distinguishes the 4 transactions that show up from the 5 that don’t? Are they the first 4, the last 4, or a seemingly random selection of the 9? Does the account you’re trying to balance have sub accounts and some of the transactions are actually in the sub accounts?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 25, 2025, at 5:03 PM, John H. via gnucash-user<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, Liz. Yes, all nine are marked "n" in the Register.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dec 25, 2025, 14:04 byedodd at billiau.net:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:02:35 +0100 (CET)
>>>> "John H. via gnucash-user"<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you, Jim - I appreciate your willingness to help. I'll
>>>>> certainly review section 2.9.4; even with nine years of GC accounts
>>>>> and thousands of reconciliations over those years it's always a good
>>>>> idea to review the basics. Also, I can see that including my
>>>>> troubleshooting steps, and especially using the wrong terms, I
>>>>> introduced ambivalence into a rather simply-described problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Or do you mean, of the many more than four
>>>>>> un-reconciled transactions in the account, all of which you expected
>>>>>> to appear in the Reconcile window, only four of them actually
>>>>>> appeared?  If so, that requires more exploration.
>>>>>>
>>>>> This latter is indeed the case. If the Register has nine transactions
>>>>> that need to be reconciled, the Reconcile window shows only four. If
>>>>> there are three transactions that need to be reconciled, the
>>>>> Reconcile window shows three. This issue is not just limited to one
>>>>> account but affects all my accounts.
>>>>>
>>>> This could be because some transactions are marked 'cleared'. A
>>>> transaction can be marked with a 'c' for cleared either from an import
>>>> step or from fat fingers.
>>>>
>>>> I presume that John H has counted transactions which have a 'n' in the
>>>> reconcile column.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Liz
>>>>
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