Editing Stock or Security Transactions

[David T.]

Now that you mention it, I have had a couple of spinoff transactions and I've never been wise enough to be able to figure out what to do with them. But they do include splits for more than one commodity.

On Feb 9, 2013, at 6:57 AM, "Stein Erik Berget" <gnucash at berget.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:11:56 +0100, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:30 PM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> <snip />
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>>> 2.  It is possible for a split transaction to contain lines referring to
>>> more than one security account.  If there are purchases or sales of more
>>> than one account/security, each account/security line must be edited
>>> from within it's own security account window.  This could mean doing a
>>> lot of Saves and jumps to edit one transaction.  One must remember to
>>> look at the Tab near the top of the window to see which account window
>>> you are in, because there is no indication of "home" vs "other" accounts
>>> inside the transaction.  If you try to edit a line that is associated to
>>> a different security account you will not get a warning, and you may or
>>> may not notice that your edits did not "stick."   In fact, some attempts
>>> to edit even appear to "stick" but then get discarded when the
>>> transaction is "Saved." This is not documented.
>>> 
>> 
>> Honestly, having more than one security in one transaction has never come up for me.
> 
> If there was a 'stock swap' (or what it's called) would this not be the way to do it?
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> <snip />
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> -- 
> Stein Erik