On Dienstag, 4. März 2025 22:56:21 CET Jack via KMyMoney-devel wrote: > I'm currently working on my monthly reconciliation of most of my > investment accounts, and have found a potential for inconsistent (and > very confusing) data. > > Reconciliation data is stored in three separate places within an > <ACCOUNT ......> entity. > > First, within the <ACCOUNT .....> tag itself, there is a > "lastreconciled='yyyy-mm-dd'" attribute. > Second, the <RECONCILIATIONS ...> entity within the account contains a > <RECONCILIATION ...> tag with date and value for each reconcilation. > Finally, in the <KEYVAULUEPAIRS ....> for the account, there is a <PAIR > key="reconciliationHistory" ...> tag where the value is a semicolon > separated list of all the reconciliation date:value pairs for the > account. > > It seems to me the second and third types are completely redundant, and > wonder if one of them should be removed. > > The third one can easily be found by using the last entry in either of > the other two lists, so I wonder if it should also be removed as > redundant.
There's an easy answer: They will be consolidated once we have 5.2 out the door. For now they are kept for backward compatibility reasons. > --- > > Irrelevant FYI as to why I went digging into this: when I reconcile an > Investment Account (after reconciling its associated Brokerage account, > I start by confirming the number of shares held of all securites in > that account. For some reason, when I do this, that account closes in > the ledger, and I am left in the Brokerage account ledger. On rare > occasion, I don't notice, and rush through the reconciiation wizard - > which then runs on the Brokerage account for today. Normally, I do > notice this, so can either cancel that reconciliation, or undo the last > action, if I complete the reconciliation. Today, I did not notice, and > was halfway through reconciling the next account before I noticed. I > therefore went to remove the extraneous reconciliation by manually > editing the xml file. That led me to all the above. > > At some future time (probably not until we get to the revision of the > whole investment handling by KMM) I will include a way to remove old > reconciliation entries from the list. I know it's not really > necessary, as the amount of "extra" data is small, but I would prefer > to be able to clean up those lists, for example removing all except the > end of year reconciliation for more than two or three years ago. > > Jack > > -- Regards Thomas Baumgart ------------------------------------------------------------- Real backups of your NAS can be found with the NSA -------------------------------------------------------------
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