Multiple currency problem : "You need to expand the transaction in order to modify its exchange rates."

[Derek Atkins]

This means your locale currency is in yet another currency, so that you
have three:

- locale currency
- account1 currency
- account2 currency.

The workaround is to enter transactions from the Bank/Asset account
and not from the Stock account and use the exchange-rate dialog to set
up the stock price.

-derek

Gregor Vercaigne <gregor.vercaigne at tiscali.be> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I use version 1.8.9 and Euro as default currency.
>
> What I want to do is the following:
>
> A broker account in Euro and one in dollar.
> Each broker account then has a number of stock child accounts in that
> currency.
>
> When I want to balance the "Intial purchase" of the Euro stocks in 
> "Equity:Opening balances (Euro)" there is no problem for the euro
> stocks.
>
> But when I try to do the same for the dollar stocks, I can only record
> 1, the next "Intial purchase" doesn't. Exchange rates are set up and
> commodities also. 
>
> When I try to fill in the missing transfer in the 
> "Equity:Opening balance dollar" account, I get the following error:  
>
> "You need to expand the transaction in order to modify its exchange
> rates."
>
> Thx for your help,
>
> Greg

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