Funny currency exchanges?

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > If I recall correctly, if there is an existing exchange rate in the Price
> > Editor for the day in question then the exchange rate dialog won't
> replace
> > or update it. You would have to do that manually in the Price Editor. Not
> > sure if this is a bug or by design.
>
> It was by design to make sure you didn't keep adding quotes over
> and over for the day.  What happens if you have a rate X, then a
> rate Y, and then go back to rate X?  You'd have to check all the
> rates for the day and see if X is there, or you'd add it twice.
>
> So the easy options were:
>
> 1) Only once per day, or
> 2) Add for every txn, even if you wind up with duplicates.
>

How about updating any existing price that was created by the transfer
dialog for the same day?


> Oh, and if you do #2 (or anything that's not #1) then you have
> the question of which quote to pull in as the default when you
> do create a new transaction...
>
> I didn't want to answer that question.  So I punted.
>
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> -derek
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-Charles