I happen to enter a transaction to some of my bank or credit card accounts each month to report the balance shown on the statement. I could assign a URL or filename to this transaction if desired.
On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 5:54 PM <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mattia > > A reconciliation deals with all the splits to a specifc account for a > specified > date range from any transactions to any other account. There is not a > single > entity transaction or split to associate a document with. At present AFAIK > there > is no way of associating the external statement document to a > reconciliation > such that you could open the statement from that association from within > GnuCash. > > If this were to be done it would have to be a link in the account data > structure > and either a list of URIs to the documents, not just a single URI, or > perhaps a > URI to a directory in which the individual account statements are stored > which > would open a OS file open dialog. I store all my statements (and OFX > downloads > in their own directory) coded with their date range for a given account > in a > single directory. I rarely find myself having to go back to past > reconciliations > or OFX downloads, so personally this would not be a high priority for me. I > would use it if available of course. > > The GnuCash data structures have a key-value pair feature that could allow > attachemnt of a URI for reconciliation data to the account data structure > fairly > easily, however it is the coding to make this useful which takes the time. > > If you think that this is a useful addition you can raise a bug in the > form of > an enhancement request. It would then require one of the develpment team > to take > it up and implement it. Unless there is a high demand for the feature and > availability of a developer with the requisite skills and understanding of > the > GnuCash code in that area, then it may take some time to reach the top of > one of > the developer's priorities. > > David cousens > > On Sat, 2021-10-23 at 19:51 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > somehow my googling doesn't even suggest anybody ever asked this… > > > > Is there a way so that all reconciled transactions link to a document > > (say, the actual bank statement) while also linking to their own > > attached documents? > > > > It feels like this would be solved if a document was property of a > > split, but being a property of the whole transaction it means only one > > document per transaction right? > > Or perhaps a property of the "split:reconciled-state" element, but then > > it would be even more something attached to the split and not to the > > transaction I guess. > > > > > > This is even ignoring the fact that there doesn't seem a UI to link the > > same document to multiple transactions. > > > > > > How do people normally link their "official" bank statement to their > > books in gnucash? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
