Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-08 Thread Cricket Onebit
I vote strongly that reconciliation status should never change without a warning that's hard to ignore. That's safest for the users, especially those of us with fat fingers, and easier to program. Finding which transaction to re-reconcile can be difficult unless I catch it right away. The only clu

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
David, At first, I was going to suggest always editing a reconciled transaction from the account you do the reconciliation on. Of course, that isn’t always part of the workflow, and isn’t always optimal. And then, based on what it appear you are describing though in a different case, I conside

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread D via gnucash-user
On May 1, 2019, at 11:55 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >Justin, >> On May 1, 2019, at 11:46 AM, Justin Vallon wrote: >> >It is trivial to re-reconcile a period if the edit was minor and you do this >quickly after the edit. (which is why the warning is there, and probably >should not be t

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 1 mei 2019 21:01:19 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > > On May 1, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Geert Janssens > > wrote: > > > > > > > > For what it's worth all business accounting packages I have used in > > Belgium > > protect the full transaction once reconciled. There's not a single field

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On May 1, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > > > For what it's worth all business accounting packages I have used in Belgium > protect the full transaction once reconciled. There's not a single field I > can > still change. Even on paper, I was taught to do all accounting in in

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 1 mei 2019 20:24:23 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > > Certainly, changing the account or amount will require a re-reconcile. > > However, I would rather not have to re-reconcile for immaterial changes > > to transaction date, transaction number, transaction description, or > > split d

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Justin, > On May 1, 2019, at 11:46 AM, Justin Vallon wrote: > > Just chiming in here. > > The "Reset Warnings" is about whether GnuCash should ask again (and > again) and annoy you ("Save changes to transaction?"), or be silent > about its action (automatically save changes). It only makes th

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-05-01 Thread Justin Vallon
Just chiming in here. The "Reset Warnings" is about whether GnuCash should ask again (and again) and annoy you ("Save changes to transaction?"), or be silent about its action (automatically save changes).  It only makes the warning dialog choice automatic; it does not enable any additional feature

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-04-29 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
John, I accept your points regarding the dialog. It would be nice still to see what those options might be. As for editing transaction-level data and having splits de-reconciled, it may be that changing the date makes sense, but I disagree when the description is edited. To be sure, it is unfo

Re: [GNC] De-Reconciliation Settings

2019-04-29 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 29, 2019, at 12:54 AM, David T. via gnucash-user > wrote: > > It was pointed out to me in another thread that one can reset specific > warnings flags using Action->Reset Warnings. > > I’d like to raise a couple of points with this dialog, now that I have been > introduced to it… >