I should split this off from the price rounding thread, but I don't know how to do that in GMail when I am replying from inside the thread.
Ledger view doesn't show number of shares or prices, so I would still need to go the security account to check on/fix them. I do not see how to fill out the transfer Funds Dialog from a confirmation statement listing number of shares, price, commission and amount. There are no boxes for number of shares or amount. I am also not sure which split line the dialog is working on after it has popped up. All closing transactions should have a pair of adjustment (Realized Gain/Loss) lines as well as the basic purchase/sale.and currency transfer lines. It seems like it is still easiest to let the GnuCash Transfer Funds dialog do whatever it wants then go to the security account where the number of shares is shown and correct it, because it probably is wrong. The multiple securities or accounts in the same transaction would usually be transitory during the editing process, but the cases you mention would be permanent. I can also attest that when I had a 401-K with many securities in 5 different sub-accounts it was very common to have as many as 30 ledger entries in a single bi-weekly transaction and I was too lazy to duplicate each one separately. David C On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:06 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > On Sep 3, 2015, at 6:25 AM, david.carlson....@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I usually reply at the end of a message but this tablet is not set up > that way yet. > > Thank you John for that concise description. This thread > > Is too lengthy to browse and I am still trying to figure out why one > Android device puts the last message at the top of the list and another > device puts the last message at the bottom or sorts randomly? ?? I am > definitely not rrady to give up my tower next to my desk. Tablets are > impossible to edit on, too. > > > > I like the idea of deferring the transfer dialog to the end of the edit > session but that would not completely solve the problem of changing a > transaction from a sale of ABC stock to FOO stock because it is still > necessary t o save before going to the target security account register to > adjust the number of shares or something to get whole thing right > > You can do that in the transfer dialog: Instead of entering the price in > “Exchange Rate” click the “To Amount” radio button (or just arrow down to > it) and enter the actual amount you want. The dialog will calculate the > corresponding price for you. > > > Maybe I could learn to start by adding an empty split line to make the > ttarget security account available as a place to do the edit., but there is > still either an intermediate save or split lines containing different lots > and securities (maybe even different brokerage accounts) to contend with. > > Now that I am thinking about it, maybe I should try doing that in a > ledger view. I have not tried that. Business transactions probably add > more cans of worms to this work flow concept. > > If you’re talking about changing your procedure then just make sure you > change the counter-account before editing the credit/debit column so that > the Transfer Dialog has the right information at the outset. > > Do you really have multiple securities in a single transaction that often? > I only do that when there’s a merger or a spin-off. That requirement (which > is anyway reasonable) means that we’d have to keep a list of the > commodities and run the transfer dialog once for each of them. The invoice > creation code already does that. > > Ledger view might make the operation easier if you’re changing both the > cash and security accounts. > > > > > If there was a way to paste an entire transaction into an account, then > a different method of editing might work. I think that would be way beyond > the scope of this work. > > Ledger view might help with this, too. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
