Question About Price DB

David Carlson carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 5 20:12:30 EST 2013


On 2/5/2013 5:04 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
> It sounds to me like you're using the exchange rate dialog to enter
> the price on a stock transaction.  This isn't what it is meant to be
> used for.  It would be better to enter these in a stock register where
> you can enter the number of shares, the price, and the total value
> directly in the register.  Or enter any two and let GnuCash calculate
> the third. I usually enter the number of shares and total value and
> let it calculate the price.
>
>               Mike
>
>
Now I see that Thunderbird did not put the list into the To: line when I
used Reply to list.  I am still learning every day.

Thank you for improving that multi-currency exchange rate dialog.

The reason that I was using that dialog for stock transactions was
because it was popping up when I was trying to edit stock transactions. 
I later found out that I was doing stock transactions in a way that
didn't work, but I was not finding out that it was not expected to work
that way. 

In fact I now know that it is mandatory to start a stock buy/sell
transaction edit from it's own Asset:Security account, but that is not
stated explicitly in the manuals.  In fact a stock buy/sell transaction
edit could also fail if the edit was started from the parent brokerage
account.  Thus many of us who have many securities in one brokerage
account are vulnerable to this issue.

However, if I was doing a multi-currency transaction I would still be
wondering how to proceed when that dialog as coded in release 2.4.11
popped up for the same reasons that I outlined in my 1:06 PM CST message
titled "Re: Question About Price DB (fwd)" that missed this thread for
some reason.  I have seen many emails in this list from multi-currency
users that could not balance their data and they were not all users that
could understand what trading accounts were for.  (I'm not ready for
those either.)  While I do think that dialog could work for stock
transactions if GnuCash were coded differently, I also think this is the
wrong time to make such a suggestion because it would open up a big can
of worms.

Regards,

David C
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