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Bug 785958 - Warnings when changing descriptions or other accounts of reconciled transactions
Warnings when changing descriptions or other accounts of reconciled transactions
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface General
2.6.15
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnucash-ui-maint
gnucash-ui-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-08-07 18:02 UTC by Joseph
Modified: 2018-06-29 23:58 UTC
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Description Joseph 2017-08-07 18:02:30 UTC 
When I try to change the description or other account of a reconciled transaction, GnuCash warns me that "You are about to change a reconciled split.  Doing so might make future reconciliation difficult!  Continue with this change?"

Since the change won't affect the reconciled balance, I'm not sure if this warning makes sense.  It might make more sense to allow these sorts of changes without warning.

Note: By "other account" above, I mean an account that has not been reconciled, but is referenced in a reconciled transaction.

See also Bug 710902 - Moving transactions to different accounts retains "y" reconciled status
Comment 1 Frank H. Ellenberger 2017-08-07 18:36:34 UTC 
Our discussion started here: 
https://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2017/08/07.html#T01:45:52

1. The text of the warning was confusing. It should contain something like:
"If you change an amount in an already reconciled transaction you will need to rerun the reconciliation for the affected and all following periods to fix the reconcile balances."

2. A similar section probably with a longer explanation (suggestions?) should be added to 
guide/C/ch_txns.xml:<sect1 id="txns-reconcile1">.

About changing the description or the other account I think there could be a simpler warning because the description might correlate with your bank statement.
Comment 2 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:58:25 UTC 
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