Transfer window appears when it should not - further information

[Derek Atkins]

Ken,

Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> writes:

> On 2015-02-18 01:17, Derek Atkins the warlord wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
>> The issue is that the transaction currency gets set when the
>> transaction is created.  This means that the transaction you are
>> trying to manipulate has the THB currency embedded in it, and will
>> forever more.
>> 
>> Changing the currency of your Imbalance account wont help, because
>> the transaction itself is *still* in THB.
>
> While my default locale is Canada and my default currency is CADs, I
> have sets of accounts in several other currencies, THB, USD, GBP and
> EUR being the main ones.  I have bank accounts in all these
> currencies,and when I am in countries where they are the usual
> currency all the expenses I incur those countries are in those
> currencies.
>
> Consider a situation where I have a transaction in one of those other
> currencies where all the accounts in it are in those currencies. After
> making all the entries in the transaction there may be an unnoticed
> inadvertent imbalance. If then I try to save such a transaction, and
> before being allowed to save it will I always be be asked to convert
> the imbalance to the default currency?  If so, in such a situation I
> would consider that requirement a bug.

No, the imbalance *should* be in the "transaction currency".  The issue
here is that, somehow, the transaction currency got set to a "weird"
currency unrelated to any of the accounts in use.

> Furthermore, it has always been my understanding that in a transaction
> involving two currencies, no splits are allowed.  Only the two
> accounts involved are allowed.  Does this rule not apply to imbalances
> where at least one split is necessary?  In the transaction which
> prompted my original query to the list there are eleven lines (or
> splits?) in it.

You understand wrong; you can absolutely have split transactions in
multiple currencies.

>> Your ONLY option is to delete the transaction completely and
>> re-enter it after you fix your locale default currency.
>
> To do so raises another issue.  The eleven account transaction
> prompting this query took place at the end of January; one of the
> entries was in a bank account.  Early this month I received the bank
> statement and reconciled it with the GnuCash account for that bank
> account. That entry is consequently marked with 'y' to indicate its
> reconciliation status. If I were to delete the transaction and
> re-enter it now, would it screw up the reconciliation?
>
> Regards, Ken

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-derek

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