Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

Some users like me did a lot of mis-managed reconciling while importing old data into currently used accounts and just reconciling years of transactions as of the current month instead of trying to obsessively go back years and assign the transactions to years-old statements, especially when reconc

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

David T. Yes I did correct and eliminate the problem by editing the data file directly and I also agree this is not really viable for the average user. I only had one incorrectly entered date in one account and for users who have many years of data the situation could be considerably more complex.

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

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Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

Sorry, I misunderstood your post. I agree, even if it was human error, the change breaks backward compatibility in a minor release. It should have at least waited till 4.0. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 9, 2020 w15d100, at 7:28 AM, D wrote: > > Adrien, > > I disagree. In earlier versions, a trans

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

Adrien, I disagree. In earlier versions, a transaction was only considered reconciled or not; its date of reconciliation was not considered. That a spurious date was entered for the reconciliation didn't affect the functionality of the software. Now, it does. That is a change in compatibility

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

If I understood David correctly, the error was not caused by the change in the reconciliation code, but by David inadvertently entering a short year date. (“20” instead of “2018”, which became “2020”) In that case, since there is no facility to the user to edit reconcile dates, the only option

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

So, David, you're saying you edited the data file directly in order to fix the new reconciliation problem? If so, that's a pretty strong indication to me that this change should get rolled back. There is no situation in which I think an end user should have to edit the data directly in order to

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

Problem resolved. Caused by entering 31/12/20 instead of 31/12/2018 when entering the end date fro a previous reconcilation. Edited datafile and corrected all reconciliation dates set as 2020-12-31 to 2018-12-31 and the file now reconciles correctly to 31/12/2019 with the correct starting balance

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

Thanks Maf, Yes it does shed a bit of light. Funny when I searched the bug list on reconciliation it didn't throw up Christopher Lam's feature 797640 or the earlier 797040 as well as Dave Reiser's thread. I am in discussion With Christopher Lam about the situation in Bugzilla (bug 797668). David

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

David Reiser started a thread about this on Wednesday Apr 1st - does that thread shed any light? HTH, Maf. On Monday, 6 April 2020 09:06:44 BST David Cousens wrote: > Uninstalled 3.9 and reinstalled 3.8 .Reconciliation works as expected. > Paypal_-_Reconcile_003_V3.8.png >

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong-Correction to links

Uninstalled 3.9 and reinstalled 3.8 .Reconciliation works as expected. Paypal_-_Reconcile_003_V3_8.png Reconciliation Starting balance crazy in V3.9 Paypal_-_Reconcile_002_v3_9.png David - David Cousens ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-use

Re: [GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

Uninstalled 3.9 and reinstalled 3.8 .Reconciliation works as expected. Paypal_-_Reconcile_003_V3.8.png Reconciliation Starting balance crazy in V3.9 Paypal_-_Reconcile_002_v3.9.png

[GNC] Starting Balance in Reconciliation Window wrong

First reconcile in GC3.9. Account previously reconciled until 31/12/2018 with a $0 closing balance. This is a Paypal account which is linked to a bank account and money is transferred from the bank account to the Paypal account automatically whenever a payment is made via Paypal so the balance is u