Running balance in register not correct

Nigel Titley nigel@titley.com
23 Nov 2002 18:30:20 +0000


Further to this....

Going through the XML and changing all occurrences of USD to GBP has
fixed the problem.

Still a bug though. Do you want me to raise it on bugzilla?

Nigel

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 17:53, Nigel Titley wrote:
> Just ran up the CVS version with a blank slate. I followed through the
> account creation druid, selected GBP as the default currency, and then
> just selected the "common" account tree. Then entered a few transactions
> in the Checking account. This was mostly transfers to "cash in wallet"
> apart from a small opening balance.
> 
> The running balance does not reflect the entered transactions, and
> neither do the transactions appear in the reconcile window.
> 
> The cash in wallet account shows the transactions, but again does not
> show the correct running balance. Running a reconcile on this account
> shows the transactions, but all with a value of zero.
> 
> I recall this running balance problem occuring before (Jun-Jul 2002) and
> it being related to a currency conversion issue, but here all the
> accounts should be in the same currency.... let's see
> 
> Ahh-ha.... a look at the XML shows that the transactions are being
> entered as USD, which is why they aren't being summed.
> 
> I suspect that even though I have asked for the default to be GBP in the
> druid, that this isn't being recorded as the default currency for
> transactions.
> 
> Can someone look at this please. Its a bit of a showstopper for new
> users. 
> 
> Nigel
> 
> PS Everything seems to work fine on the account tree I brought over from
> 1.6.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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