"Edit exchange rate" has stopped working (2.2.9)

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Sun Feb 7 12:12:17 EST 2010


On 6 February 2010 at 19:30, Adam Funk said:

> 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.

So what stops you clicking on the other split, which is the correct one 
to edit?



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