Split Transactions involving Stocks and bank accounts don't work

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Nov 21 17:28:01 EST 2004


This sounds an awful lot like bug #144885.

What happens if you enter the splits from the bank register instead
of the stock register?

-derek

Eric Dorland <eric.dorland at mail.mcgill.ca> writes:

> * Derek Atkins (warlord at MIT.EDU) wrote:
>> How did you enter the transaction?
>
> I entered it as a split transaction in the stock account's ledger. I
> entered in the transaction exactly as laid out in the concept's guide:
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/invest_sell1.html.
> The columns were named Buy and Sell, not Total Buy and Total Sell as
> in the guide, but otherwise it was the same. 
>
>> What is your locale?
>
> en_US
>
>> What are the currencies of the various accounts?
>
> Most of my accounts are in CAD, but all the accounts involved in this
> one were in USD. 
>
>> -derek
>> 
>> Eric Dorland <eric.dorland at mail.mcgill.ca> writes:
>> 
>> > Does anyone have any ideas? I can send my (properly striped and
>> > randomized) ledger if someone is willing to take a look to see if they
>> > can reproduce the bug. 
>> >
>> > * Eric Dorland (eric.dorland at mail.mcgill.ca) wrote:
>> >> * Josh Sled (jsled at asynchronous.org) wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:15, Eric Dorland wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> > > Well I didn't explicitly state I was using split transactions, but the
>> >> > > example I was basing off of in the concepts guide uses them.
>> >> > 
>> >> > SX = "Scheduled" Transactions, not "split".
>> >> 
>> >> Oh, I'm not using scheduled transactions.
>> >>  
>> >> > > > In any case, there is no workaround, and there's no "fix" per-se ... the
>> >> > > > SX subsystem should be extended to handle stock transactions, though.  
>> >> > > 
>> >> > > But if I use a non-split transaction things should work? 
>> >> > 
>> >> > There is no such thing; a transaction is defined as a "list of
>> >> > splits"...
>> >> > 
>> >> > So, if you save and re-open the file, does the problem still persist?
>> >> 
>> >> Yes.
>> >> 
>> >> > What about "Jump"ing from the bank-account split where you _can_ see it?
>> >> 
>> >> Everything looks fine from stock account's ledger. When I jump to bank
>> >> account, I see all the lines from the split, but there's no values in
>> >> the Deposit/Withdrawal columns. Even when I jump to the commission
>> >> expense account, I see the lines but no funds. 
>> >
>> >
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