Question - transactions between foreign currencies.

[Horea Christian]

So the only way to do this is to look up the quote manually for the given date on google? That's a bit backwards, that gnucash won't do the division of the quotes automatically... I can't be the only one who uses more than 2 currencies. How do you guys usually handle this?

Also, if I am trying to input transactions from the past, will gnucash fetch the quotes for the respective dates?On Feb 7, 2015 6:42 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> --On February 7, 2015 at 7:08:26 AM -0800 John Ralls 
> <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote: 
>
> > 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 knows how to do that: 
>
> mta at bayswater /<3>darwin>bin/gnc-fq-dump currency RON CHF 
> 1 RON = 0.2375 CHF 
> mta at bayswater /<3>darwin>bin/gnc-fq-dump currency CHF RON 
> 1 CHF = 4.2102 RON 
>
> However, I think GnuCash only retrieves currency quotes against the 
> default currency of the file so I don't think there's any way to get it 
> to retrieve the quote you want. 
>
>       Mike 
>