On Aug 5, 2019, at 4:57 PM, David Cousens <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have raised bugs in the > code(https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797338) and documentation > (https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797337) proposing changing the > "U+R" and "R" tags in the import main matcher to "U+C" and "C" where the > curent use of R refers to the term reconciliation. The use of the term > reconciliation in this context may cause some confusion with the > reconciliation process of checking transactions for a period against an > external statement, particularly for new users. The import matcher does not > assign a "reconciled" status to an imported transaction but does set it as > "c" cleared. You would not normally be importing transactions in which the > splits to the account being imported to are already reconciled, i.e. marked > "y" in a register however this might occur if you are importing records > separately to a credit and a bank account where there are transfers between > them (credit card payments). In this case the importer would flag the record > not to be imported where there is an exact match to an existing transaction. > AFAIK there is no checking of the reconciliation status of the existing > transaction in GnuCash in the matching process but I may not yet have dug > deeply enough. > > In a discussion with John Ralls and Frank Ellenberger over other changes to > the import matcher documentation, I initially proposed "U+M" and "M". John > felt "U+C" and "C were more indicative and clearer. > > I am raising this here to canvas a wider audience before making the changes. > Please comment here preferrably (or in the bug comments) if you have any > objections/support to the proposed change . > > David Cousens >
I think we need an even wider audience, so pass this on to gnucash-user. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
