problem selling stocks

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Jeremy Harris <jgh at wizmail.org>:

> The stock named account is of type stock; all its parents are
> type asset/placeholder.  An example of the non-displaying
> account, the cash account for the transaction proceeds, is of
> type bank and has the same immediate parent.  It has commodity
> set to USD; my new-account and report default currencies are GBP.
>
> Any clues as to how I managed to do this and/or how to fix it?

Select the transaction, right click, select Edit Exchange Rates.
You're hitting http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116353 .
The problem is that your locale currency is not the same as the
currency you're trying to use, and gnucash doesn't support that
yet.  The workaround (as mentioned in the bug report) is to create
the transaction from the bank-account side instead of the stock-account
side).  This will properly set the transaction currency.

> Thanks,
>    Jeremy
>
> PS: just installed 2.0.0; it displays the same.

It's not a display problem.. It's a data entry problem.

-derek

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