Selling shares in 2.4.x

[Simon Lindgren]

fre 2011-08-19 klockan 12:21 -0700 skrev John Ralls:
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Simon Lindgren wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been using gnucash since the 2.2.x series and have previously sold
> > shares for profit and for loss using the method described at [1]
> > (Selling shares). In 2.4.7 though, I'm having trouble entering a
> > transaction such as the one described on that page. GnuCash does not
> > seem to allow a line containing no shares and no share price but still a
> > value in the buy or sell columns. Such lines get filled in automatically
> > with a share price of 1 and number of shares equal to the amount in the
> > buy/sell column. Is there a new way of doing this?
> > 
> > 1: http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-sell1.html
> > 
> 
> No, that's the right way to do it, and I just checked to be sure and it works fine -- in fact, better than it did in 2.2.9, because if you don't delete the auto-entered $1 price it won't calculate a bogus number of shares for the split, it will delete it for you.
> I've had trouble getting it to handle correctly editing an existing split with a number of shares in it, so once it messes you up like that, delete the split and start over.

My experience is not that it works better now... ;)
However, I got it to work. I had to restart GnuCash before I finally
succeeded though (if this was the "solution" I do not know).

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Simon Lindgren