"from" account naming after a trans-currency transaction

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Tue, 01 May 2001 14:54:39 -0700


Christian Hammers writes:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:59:58PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > Thanks for the bug reports. Could you try it again with current CVS?
> > I believe I have fixed the problem. Also, if you're looking for a
> it worked! Great. Just one other thing:
> 
> When doing a DEM to EUR tranaction in the target account I now read the 
> "META: DEM->EUR" string as "source" account of this specific transaction.
> 
> Ok, that's what it is but it surely isn't usefull any more. Would it be a 
> good idea to mark the accounts that are just created to transact from former-
> European-currencies to EUR as special and "hide" them in this field? Or 
> write "my incoming wage (via DEM-EUR)" as source account? Using the via-
> notation it would even make a bit sense for non EURo countries that use 
> trans-currency transactions for other reasons.

I'm not sure what you mean here, could you explain further?

dave