Funny currency exchanges?

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:22 PM, musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>
> wrote:
> > On 26 August 2008 at 15:51, musicman said:
> >
> >> Hola,
> >>
> >> please find attached two pictures that do a better job of explaining
> than
> >> I can.
> > [...]
> >> Am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > Well, the program is doing exactly what you've told it.
> >
> > You entered a rate of AUD7751.93749 = IDR1 (while entering a
> > transaction). The program is using that (as the most recent rate
> > available) to convert in your Totals column.
> >
> > If you delete that entry, it will use the previous rate of AUD28729 =
> > IDR250000000, or about IDR8702 = AUD1.
> >
> > You may have a corresponding bad transaction somewhere (deleting the
> > PriceDB entry won't affect the transaction that created it).
> >
>
> Hey all, back to this thread.
>
> I thought I had fixed this issue, but I can confirm that when entering
> currency exchange details on a line entry (right click, choose "Edit
> Exchange Rate") and then enter the "to amount" it then fails.
>
> Using GC 2.2.6
>
> When I say fails, I mean "if you save and then do exactly the same
> action, it has moved from the "to amount" to "exchange rate" (which
> are correct), but then when you open teh price editor, it's arse end
> around (ie, I'm still having the 1IDR = 7500AUD problem)"
>

If I recall correctly, if there is an existing exchange rate in the Price
Editor for the day in question then the exchange rate dialog won't replace
or update it. You would have to do that manually in the Price Editor. Not
sure if this is a bug or by design.


>
> Any ideas?
>
> cheers
> L.


-Charles