Weird behaviour with trading accounts?

Mark msalists at gmx.net
Mon Aug 27 15:50:25 EDT 2012


Derek,

I am using TAB, not ENTER.
I think the problem in how the Transaction Journal view is handling the 
transaction input - see my email a few minutes earlier...

Thanks,

Mark


Am 27.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Derek Atkins:
> Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:
>
>> --On August 26, 2012 8:06:13 PM +0200 Mark <msalists at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, this way it worked - the main difference this time: using "Basic
>>> Ledger" view instead of the "Transaction Journal" view I have been
>>> using before.
>>> How (which fields in which row) would I enter this in "Transaction
>>> Journal view to get the same result?
>>>
>> I just did the same thing in the Transaction Journal view and it
>> worked there too.  Open the EUR checking account.  In a new
>> transaction the first split will, by default, be in that account.
>> Enter "100.00" in the "credit" column.  Tab to the next split and
>> enter a USD account, e.g., Expenses:Dining.  Then enter 124.70 in the
>> Debit column and tab out of the split.  In the exchange rate dialog
>> that should pop up, put in 1.247 as the exchange rate or 100 as the
>> amount and close it.  Hit enter to record the transaction and you
>> should get the two trading account splits.
> A significant key here is using Tab instead of Enter, or any other
> method to move cells.
>
>>             Mike
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> -derek
>



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