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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