problem selling stocks
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Jul 15 13:17:15 EDT 2006
Quoting Jeremy Harris <jgh at wizmail.org>:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Select the transaction, right click, select Edit Exchange Rates.
>
> This didn't work for me (in 2.0.0 r14475:14476). Menu, but no
> apparent action on selecting Edit Exchange Rates. Ditto on the
> "Actions" menu.
> (By the way, the help line bottom left says "Exit" not "Edit" for
> that entry!)
a) you cannot do this from the stock register
b) you have to expand the transaction and select the appropriate split(s)
to adjust.
>> You're hitting http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353 .
>> The problem is that your locale currency is not the same as the
>> currency you're trying to use, and gnucash doesn't support that
>> yet.
>
> OK.
>
>> The workaround (as mentioned in the bug report) is to create
>> the transaction from the bank-account side instead of the stock-account
>> side). This will properly set the transaction currency.
>
> Yup, works. You do have to hop back to the stock-account to set
> the number of shares, and price-per-share - otherwise the balance
> of share numbers goes off.
You shouldn't have to -- you should be able to do it from the Exchange Rate
Dialog.
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
-derek
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