Indeed. I ask myself, "which character do I see after invoking this
option?" It isn't "R"--it is "C."
Furthermore, the imported transaction isn't "Reconciled," it is
"Cleared." You still have to reconcile it.
As for changing the Reconcile value to "R," well, that goes a little
further down the path, and leads me logically to the thought that the
field should then be renamed "Status." At this point, it feels like
we're beginning to stray from the broader (as in beyond GnuCash)
community terminological consensus. And we're making a lot of work for
programmers and documentationers.
David
On 8/6/2019 4:29 PM, Fross, Michael wrote:
I agree as well. This was confusing to me when I started.
I also think instead of putting a ???Y??? in the reconciled column in the
register, I would put a ???R???.
Michael
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:46 PM Robin Chattopadhyay <robinra...@gmail.com>
wrote:
+1
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:53 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com>
wrote:
I have raised bugs in the
code(https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797338) and documentation
(https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797337) proposing changing the
"U+R" and "R" tags in the import main matcher to "U+C" and "C" where the
curent use of R refers to the term reconciliation. The use of the term
reconciliation in this context may cause some confusion with the
reconciliation process of checking transactions for a period against an
external statement, particularly for new users. The import matcher does
not
assign a "reconciled" status to an imported transaction but does set it
as
"c" cleared. You would not normally be importing transactions in which
the
splits to the account being imported to are already reconciled, i.e.
marked
"y" in a register however this might occur if you are importing records
separately to a credit and a bank account where there are transfers
between
them (credit card payments). In this case the importer would flag the
record
not to be imported where there is an exact match to an existing
transaction.
AFAIK there is no checking of the reconciliation status of the existing
transaction in GnuCash in the matching process but I may not yet have dug
deeply enough.
In a discussion with John Ralls and Frank Ellenberger over other changes
to
the import matcher documentation, I initially proposed "U+M" and "M".
John
felt "U+C" and "C were more indicative and clearer.
I am raising this here to canvas a wider audience before making the
changes.
Please comment here preferrably (or in the bug comments) if you have any
objections/support to the proposed change .
As John has suggested this is copied from GnuCash Dev to GnuCash users to
further widen the input.
David Cousens
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