Can't enter data when starting in an expense account (instead of liability or asset account)

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 12:10:52 EDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:44 AM, jgombos
<nabble.forum.jog at spamgourmet.com>wrote:

>
>
> >
> >It sounds like you are entering the transaction in the expense account's
> >register, so all numbers are entered in terms of that account's currency.
> So
> >there is no exchange rate needed on the expense line; you would have to
> >right-click on the liability line.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.. indeed, it works if I set the exchange rate
> on the liability line item (most of the time).  Sometimes it does not
> accept
> an exchange rate on the liability figure for some reason, and I have to
> abandon the transaction and re-enter it from a different euro expense
> account.  So it's a little buggy, but at least I can deal with it.
>

If the exchange rate on the line is already zero, the register may not work
correctly. I made a fix for this in trunk but it has not been released in
2.2.x yet (releasing changes to register code is unusually risk prone).

Cheers,
Charles


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