How does one change the number of decimal places in stock account?

[Robin Chattopadhyay]

Here's another suggestion that I tried and seems to have worked:

1. Under the Security Editor, change the Symbol for the security at issue.
>From PII to PII.old for example
2. Again, using the Security Editor, create a new Security with the correct
number of decimals 1/1000000 in your case
3. Edit the Stock Account at issue and change the Security/Currency to the
new Security you created in step two. When I did this, I change from 1/1 to
1/1000000 and was then able to enter a purchase for 0.000005 shares and
have it display the total share balance correctly.

HTH,
Robin


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Richard Dawson <rcdawson at att.net> wrote:

> On Saturday, August 23, 2014 08:12:38 AM John Ralls wrote:
> > On Aug 23, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Richard Dawson <rcdawson at att.net> wrote:
> > > On Friday, August 22, 2014 10:13:18 PM you wrote:
> > >> On Aug 22, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Richard Dawson <rcdawson at att.net> wrote:
> > >>> I have an existing account that displays five decimal places in the
> > >>> number
> > >>> of shares column.  The company holding the account has now changed
> to 6
> > >>> decimal places, and I would like to keep my tally equal to the tally
> on
> > >>> my statements.
> > >>>
> > >>> So, I edited the account and changed the "smallest fraction" setting
> > >>> from
> > >>> "Use Commodity Value" to 1/1000000.  I then attempted an entry.  All
> > >>> seemed OK, except when I completed the entry it refused to update the
> > >>> running balance. It just leaves the balance field blank.
> > >>>
> > >>> I set the smallest fraction back to Commodity Value, and I was able
> to
> > >>> add
> > >>> entries and see the balance increment accordingly.
> > >>>
> > >>> How can I change the number of decimals displayed for Shares added
> in a
> > >>> transaction and for the running blance of shares?
> > >>>
> > >>> You may wonder why one should fuss so much over a few millionths of a
> > >>> share, but when your total number of shares is as small as mine a few
> > >>> millionths is important!
> > >>
> > >> Try editing the commodity's smallest fraction using Tools>Security
> > >> Editor.
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> John Ralls
> > >
> > > Unfortunately editing using tools>security editor gives the same
> result as
> > > Edit>Account.  Changing the smallest fraction to 1/1000000 allows me to
> > > input six decimal placed numbers "Shares" column, but the balance field
> > > remains blank, even after I click the plus button to complete entering
> > > the transaction.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, once I enter a transaction with the smallest fraction
> set
> > > to
> > > 1/1000000, that transaction can no longer obtain a balance.
> >
> > Please remember to copy the list on all replies, using "Reply all".
> >
> > Looks like you've found a bug.
> > What happens if you close that register page and reopen it?
> >
> > What version of GnuCash, and what OS? If GnuCash isn't 2.6.3, can you
> > upgrade and retest?
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>
>
> I managed to get 2.6.3 installed on a second computer running Linux
> 2.6.3.  (I
> didn't want to disturb an otherwise functioning version.)  I was unable to
> follow the instructions at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu
> for
> installing from source; Maybe I was able to follow, but it just didn't
> work.
> Eventually I installed a new repository using the command sudo add-apt-
> repository ppain-muench/programs-ppa.
>
> 2.6.3 ran OK, but still I cannot change the number of decimal places in an
> established stock account.
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