Removing user:xfer-dialog in Price Editor, safe ?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue May 12 09:20:08 EDT 2009


"AmigaPhil" <AmigaPhil at ping.be> writes:

> Is it safe to remove the "user:xfer-dialog" sourced quotes in
> Price Editor if I already have a "user:price-editor" or a
> "Finance::Quote" quote for the same date ?
>
> I have to do some clean-up there because I have different
> exchange rates for the same transactions (stocks purchase),
> leading to some imbalanced accounts in the Balance Sheet.
> But I fear that removing the "user:xfer-dialog" quotes could
> break some transactions...
>
> Will GnuCash re-construct the transactions by picking the available
> quotes for the transaction date ? 

Transactions themselves are self-contained and never refer to the
PriceDB.  The PriceDB is ONLY used for reports and "current value"
calculation in the Chart of Accounts.

> AmigaPhil

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-derek

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