"Edit exchange rate" has stopped working (2.2.9)

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Sat Feb 6 14:30:22 EST 2010


On 2010-02-05, Fred Bone wrote:

> On 5 February 2010 at 11:21, Adam Funk said:
>
>> On 2010-02-03, Derek Atkins wrote:

>> > Note that once you have a transaction you cannot change the "amount"
>> > from the edit exchange rate box.  
>> 
>> Why in the world am I not allowed to do this?  Once you have a
>> transaction, you can edit the split amounts in that register's
>> currency and add or remove splits.  Why not change the exchange rate
>> or the currency value in the other account?
>
> But you are allowed. I've done it any number of times, usually when I've 
> not had the correct conversion available at data entry time and wanted to 
> correct later (the typical instance being a foreign currency transaction 
> on my credit card, where I won't know exactly how much EUR150 will 
> convert to in GBP until I get the statement).
>
> What you can't do is change the exchange rate of a transaction with 
> splits from an unsplit view. The splits might have different exchange 
> rates so you need to treat each one separately.

I always use the "auto-split ledger", and I'm talking about
right-clicking on one split of a transaction --- the one that refers
to the "other" account (e.g., I'm in the GBP bank account register and
clicking on the cash EUR split of the transaction) --- and trying to
change the resulting amount in the other (e.g, EUR) account.



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