[GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread Christopher Lam
Release 3.9 comes with a new method for calculating reconciliation starting balances. Previously, the account reconciled balance was considered the starting balance. This includes any splits previously reconciled with an invalid (e.g. future) reconciliation statement date. >From 3.9 onwards, the

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread D. via gnucash-devel
Christopher, I have to admit to some trepidation at having something as significant to my books as reconciliation suddenly changed based on data elements that aren't visible in the GUI. Are you sure the solution is better than the problem? I'm also concerned at the fact that (as with some oth

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread Dale Phurrough via gnucash-devel
Hi. I do have feedback on the 3.10 change suggestions. Meanwhile, I'll not comment on the feature change "3.9 comes with a new method for calculating reconciliation starting balances". I defer to others on this list for that. 1. This time period of one month is arbitrary and my experience suggests

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Tue, April 7, 2020 10:21 am, Dale Phurrough via gnucash-devel wrote: > 1. > This time period of one month is arbitrary and my experience suggests this > is a symptom of a hack, incomplete solution, or partial workaround. Both > (a) allowing future/advance reconciliation -and- (b) disallowi

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread Dale Phurrough via gnucash-devel
Cool use of cleared/reconciled for expenses. I can follow that general approach. I do have an inquiry regarding the need for the future when reconciling. (What am I missing...or is there a gnucash feature I'm assuming exists that doesn't?) 🤔 In my mind, I see two accounts 1) bank account, e.g. Ban

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Tue, April 7, 2020 11:47 am, Dale Phurrough wrote: > Cool use of cleared/reconciled for expenses. I can follow that general > approach. > I do have an inquiry regarding the need for the future when reconciling. > (What am I missing...or is there a gnucash feature I'm assuming exists > that

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread David Cousens
Chris, 1. I am concerned that the "new method of calculating starting balances" introduced in GnuCash 3.9 may have a problem. I am still tracking down exactly what happened in my case. I do have a future reconciliation date on some transactions that had previously been imported in V 3.8. A prelim

Re: [GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

2020-04-07 Thread David Cousens
Typical very old transaction that has had its reconciliation date altered but not by reconciling the period it is from (The date the transacion originally occurred and the weird date 202-12-31 and the reconciliation date for the other split of the transaction are highlighted. Only transaction split

[GNC-dev] About bug 797670 (crash related to sch. xaction dialog remaining opened after file is closed)

2020-04-07 Thread jeanl
For info: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797670 The solution to this, it seems to me, is to ensure all opened dialogs are closed when another file is opened. I would imagine this already happens for other dialogs, but was omitted for this one? If so, can you guys point me in the right di

Re: [GNC-dev] About bug 797670 (crash related to sch. xaction dialog remaining opened after file is closed)

2020-04-07 Thread jean
Looks like I need to register the editor dialog using gnc_register_gui_component() Let me know if you see I'm on the wrong track J. On 4/7/20 11:19 PM, jeanl wrote: For info: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797670 The solution to this, it seems to me, is to ensure all opened dialogs ar