Ver 2.6.3 no split entry

[Scott Roe]

Subject: Re: Ver 2.6.3 no split entry
From: jralls at ceridwen.us
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 20:56:55 +0200
CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
To: scott384 at hotmail.com

Hi John:

Thanks for your reply.   Looking at the transaction I've been trying to enter though, doesn't involve forex that I can see.  The open register is a local currency checking account, and the two accounts I'm trying to split the check amount into are account receivable accounts both in local currency.  When I begin a job, I enter the stage payments into the account receivable (in local currency) and when I post expenses, they reduce the balance in the account receivable account.  I'm trying to split the check amount between two of the account receivable accounts, all same currency.

Reviewing my actions entering the split, as per the help directions, I enter the date, check #, business I'm writing the check to, the amount of check in the decrease column, and the, while the focus is on the decrease column with check amount, I hit the split button and then enter the accounts receivable for the two accounts I'm splitting the check amount for, and the amounts, and everything looks good and when I hit enter, poof!  Gone.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Scott

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