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 > > > > > > > > ----- > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
