How does “Locked periods and the journal date” work on the Find & Recode page?

Xero checks each edit: a document in a locked period is kept as it is, and the run then offers Reclassify by journal for exactly those lines, with a link to Xero's lock dates. A journal can take each line's own date, which keeps the move in the same period as the original, or one date for all, which is what to use when the original period is locked. A journal dated inside a locked period asks for a typed confirmation once per run; declining stops the run and nothing is posted into the locked period. The amounts of a reclassification are read from the live Xero document, never from Saral's copy, so the debit and credit sides are always the right way round. Where: Find & Recode (/accounts/find-recode).