David, I think I spoke too quickly. I thought I had fixed the account with that simple change, but I cannot repeat the "solution". So as of now I am still puzzling with it. I don't have source so I may get the 2.5 source and see what is going on.
But I will have to finish my taxes first. Keith On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:52 PM, David Carlson <carlson...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > On 4/8/2013 5:32 PM, Keith Bellairs wrote: > > I was obviously concerned about "lots" too. So I just hacked my xml file > to delete the following slot from the account in question: > > <slot:key>lot-mgmt</slot:key> > > Getting rid of that flag seems to be all that is needed to resolve my > problem. Don't remember how I got it set in the first place, but it is evil. > > KB > > > > There may be an issue with your account structure. If you go to your >> buy transaction(s) for that security, did you get the funds from the >> brokerage account that is the 'parent' of the security account? If not, >> you probably need to structure your account hierarchy (and your >> transactions) similar to the description in the help manual. >> >> If that is not the problem, you may have found an instance of a bug that >> I have seen a few times but have not been able to reliably reproduce. >> Sometimes a transaction of this type seems to be out of balance and >> um-editable. When I have seen this, I needed to change the transaction >> number to something like the word 'Bad' then construct a new transaction >> from scratch, being careful to avoid allowing gnucash to auto-enter any >> part of the new transaction. Then I delete the 'Bad' transaction. I >> think that once or twice I needed to actually build the new transaction >> in a different account, then when it was close to being correct, change >> the transaction to the correct account. I do suspect that the issue is >> somehow related to the 'Lots' feature. I have studiously avoided that >> feature since once trying it and finding something that I did not like. >> Since then I have forgotten what it was that I didn't like. >> >> David C >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> >> > > Keith, > > Thanks for the information. I am not comfortable with editing XML. Did > you delete only that one line? > > David C > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
