problem selling stocks

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Jeremy Harris <jgh at wizmail.org>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Select the transaction, right click, select Edit Exchange Rates.
>
> This didn't work for me (in 2.0.0 r14475:14476).  Menu, but no
> apparent action on selecting Edit Exchange Rates.  Ditto on the
> "Actions" menu.
> (By the way, the help line bottom left says "Exit" not "Edit" for
> that entry!)

a) you cannot do this from the stock register
b) you have to expand the transaction and select the appropriate split(s)
   to adjust.

>> 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.
>
> OK.
>
>> 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.
>
> Yup, works.  You do have to hop back to the stock-account to set
> the number of shares, and price-per-share - otherwise the balance
> of share numbers goes off.

You shouldn't have to -- you should be able to do it from the Exchange Rate
Dialog.

> Thanks,
>    Jeremy

-derek

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