Thank you David. Further work for tighter safeguards is planned in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/685 -- no scrubbing is currently on the table but a warning during reconciliation if future splits are detected.
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, 9:59 am David Cousens, <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > I am now happy that there is no problem with the starting balance > calculation > in 3.9 and the problem was caused by a previously undetected finger > problem > on my part and withdraw my previous qualms about retaining it for the > future. > > I still think it is excessive to restrict the reconciliation date entry in > any way but agree that a warning should be displayed if either a statment > date in advance of "today" is entered, perhaps with the option for the user > to confirm that they either want to retain the advance date or reenter it > in > a popup dialog. > > Also agree with a warning if any reconciled transactions with reconcile > dates in advance of today are detected in the file. I am less sure about > assigning them to an arbitrary past date however. > > If a procedure for correcting them is developed it might be helpful if it > could display data for transactiions with reconciled splits which have the > advance date. The information that I found most useful to determine when I > made the error were the transaction date posted and the transaction date > entered into GnuCash and the reconciliation date and the account name or at > least the account guid to confirm that all the affected splits are to a > single account. This was particularlyuseful to me because i append an "_R" > to statement pdf files I have reconciled and the file modified time allows > me to determine the date I did a recociliation. In future I will append > "_Ryyyymmdd" so i don't have to look up the modified times for the files as > well. > > Bug797668 is now marked as resolved > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
