currency warnings on open and save
Jeff Abrahamson
jeff at purple.com
Tue Dec 30 20:20:12 CST 2003
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:51:37PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Perhaps related, I changed the currency on one account today (from USD
> > to EUR). I was expecting to see a dialog telling me of all the other
> > accounts that had to be changed to keep things consistent. Instead,
> > it just changed it, with transfers now directly between USD and EUR
> > accounts. Is this really meaningful / possible?
>
> Well, GnuCash gives you lots of rope. I hope your neck is strong.
> Seriously, if you change the parameters of an account, you should know
> what you are doing. Gnucash doesn't care, and wont verify the
> existing contents of an account. So, if you change something like the
> currency, well, gnucash assumes you know what you are doing.
>
> This is not a bug.
But it's different than what happened in 1.6.6, where gnucash would (I
think) trace the account transfer graph and tell me what needed to
change. Here it just relabels edges, I guess.
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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