Hi David, Agreed that the process of importing of transactions to an account is a separate and distinct process from that of reconciliation with an external statement.
Given that however, the import process, if it matches an existing transaction in your accounts will classify a transaction as "Reconcile (auto) match" and the R column is checked. What I am unsure of is whether this will set the "reconciled" flag on the transaction. I just tried reimporting an OFX file which I imported earlier today and it correctly matched all transactions as currently existing ( these had not been reconciled against a statement and the reconcile flag was not set in the account register). I was reluctant to hit OK to see whether it sets the reconcile flag on the transaction records, but I took the risk of having to unset a month's records, and it *does not *set the reconcile flag on re-importing and justs skips importing the records which is the desirable behaviour (from my point of view). It is the use of reconcile in the context of importing that is confusing. I would prefer to see a more explanatory message like "Auto match to existing record - skipping import" in that comment field, i.e. not use reconcile in this context because of the confusing the process with reconciliation. The original question I answered was referring, I think, specifically to the import process matching imported transactions to already reconciled transactions, i.e. those with the reconcile flag already set in the account register and not just the R column set in the import process (and the "Reconcile (auto) match" in the comment field of the transaction). I have not specifically tested whether Gnucash actually does that yet but I will give it a go with a test set of books later today and see what actually does happen. I remember finding documentation of the Bayesian matching and what the flags (A, U+R, R ) mean being veryhard to come by a year or two ago and John Ralls spelled it out for me in a reply to a question at that time, however I can't find that in the archives but this one does have it http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/How-does-AqBanking-work-A-U-R-and-R-td4661099.html or http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/When-importing-QFX-what-does-U-R-actually-do-td4689755.html. ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.