I kind of like it the way it is currently, for what it's worth. On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:20 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
