Ver 2.6.3 no split entry

[John Ralls]

On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Scott Roe <scott384 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> > Subject: Re: Ver 2.6.3 no split entry
> > From: jralls at ceridwen.us
> > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:22:03 +0200
> > CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > To: scott384 at hotmail.com
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> > 
> > Hi John:
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> Yes, I am using two currencies.  I keep my books in the local currency, and I have 8-10 bank accounts, some in USD and some in local currency, 2 credit card liability accounts in USD.  I have been using the system for a couple of years with no probs so I'm not sure what I did to suddenly have this prob.  I thought it might be version 2.6.3 but I uninstalled that, installed version 2.4.15 and same prob, so I switched back to version 2.6.3. When entering expenses, or revenues, depending on what type of account (USD or CID) a conversion dialog will come up, and I complete that to store the info in local currency.
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> Can you suggest a fix?

Perhaps you weren't using split view to enter your forex transactions before. In basic view (which implies two splits, one in the account represented by the currently open register, one in a different account), GnuCash will pop up the transfer dialog and collect either the price or the amount (the value in the other account's currency) and balance the transaction, computing whichever you didn't fill out.

When you're in split view, GnuCash doesn't look at the other split(s) because it doesn't know that you aren't going to enter more of them. It's up to you to make sure that the transaction balances in the current register's currency, and if you've more than one split in another currency that it balances in that currency as well. It doesn't show you the price or amount in that other currency except one at a time in the transfer dialog, so you have to keep track of that other-currency balance on your own. One major difference between 2.4 and 2.6 is that 2.4 had a bug where it didn't ensure that the transaction balanced in the other currency, so you could successfully enter transactions that didn't balance.

Mike Alexander recently wrote a more detailed explanation in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732058.

Regards,
John Ralls