Question - transactions between foreign currencies.

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 6, 2015, at 2:22 PM, Horea Christian <horea_christian at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I am using gnucash to manage my personal finances, and these span
> quite a few currencies.
> 
> I keep my base currency in EUR and I am familiar with how to get quotes.
> Transfers from e.g. CHF or RON accounts to EUR work nicely. However
> gnucash seems unable to get quotes for - in this case -  transfers
> between RON and CHF accounts. This also happens with other non-EUR
> currencies. What is wrong? Could you help me out?

Setting aside that you should be careful when using the quotes button in the transfer dialog because the exchange rate that it provides isn't necessarily what was effective for your transaction, can you get RON <-> CHF rates online?

Finance::Quote, which is what actually gets the quotes, can only retrieve prices from websites like Yahoo! that report on Forex markets. Neither F::Q nor GnuCash have the ability to calculate a direct quote from two indirect ones, e.g. dividing RON/EUR by CHF/EUR to get RON/CHF.

Regards,
John Ralls