Re: [GNC] Feature request: Stock currency setting

2018-11-01 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
@Wm Thanks for your patient explanation! >> Don't use the orphans for long, *always* move the tx to an appropriate account unless you are the sort of person that throws all their financial documents in a drawer and sorts them out only when they have to. << I was unable to use (e.g. move) the

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Stock currency setting

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 27/10/2018 13:30, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote: You can just move the account, but the transaction currency is immutable so you will have to delete and re-create the transaction. As for adding a trading currency to the security editor, it’s possible but the code for creating transaction

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Stock currency setting

2018-10-27 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 27, 2018, at 5:30 AM, rsbrux wrote: > >>> > You can just move the account, but the transaction currency is immutable so > you will have to delete and re-create the transaction. > > As for adding a trading currency to the security editor, it’s possible but > the code for creating

Re: [GNC] Feature request: Stock currency setting

2018-10-21 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 21, 2018, at 2:51 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I have been repeatedly frustrated by my failure to remember this advice from > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock#Stocks_noted_in_foreign_currency > > >> > > If you start your first (buy) transaction from your

[GNC] Feature request: Stock currency setting

2018-10-21 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
I have been repeatedly frustrated by my failure to remember this advice from https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/add_stock#Stocks_noted_in_foreign_currency >> If you start your first (buy) transaction from your stock account, the currency of the parent account will be used. Assuming your