Question on Split Transaction stock/fund purchases

[David Carlson]

On 3/5/2015 11:40 PM, Eric Moon wrote:
> Hi - yep, it have it all set up as describe in 8.4 and have been using
> it for a while with pre-existing (ie funded from 'opening balances')
> stocks and funds - all entered as single transactions, though.  This
> is the first split.
>
> I know that stocks and funds are different items in GnuCash - I was
> speaking more of them being the same conceptually.
>
> Price editor is correct and is pulling the correct data from online.
>
> I've attached the 3 screen shots to show the issue I'm having.
>
> One with the split view closed, one with it open showing the details
> and one of the account menu with the fund's share count not showing
> up.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Edward Doolittle
> <edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That hasn't happened to me, but I'll take a stab in the dark ...
>>
>> - Have you done all the set up described in section 8.4 of the manual? It
>> takes a while but you only have to do it once for each equity.
>> - Stock and mutual fund aren't the same thing as far as GnuCash is concerned
>> ... they are different account types. You should make sure that the account
>> type is correct, and matches the type of security as set up in the security
>> editor. Tools -> Security Editor
>> - Is (correct) price data for the security in place in the price editor?
>> Tools -> Price Editor
>>
>> On 5 March 2015 at 12:25, Eric Moon <eric at ericmoon.net> wrote:
>>> (version 2.6.5 on Win7)
>>>
>>> I'm trying to enter a stock purchase (well, mutual fund, but same
>>> thing) with a brokerage fee using the exact steps outlined in the
>>> documentation - section 8.5.2 : buy of shares, brokerage fee, and
>>> deduction from cash account to fund it all.
>>>
>>> My problem is that when I enter all of the data, the balance ends up
>>> blank - it doesn't add the new shares purchased to the running total,
>>> it just makes the balance column empty.
>>>
>>> This carries forward to the account list - blank as well for that
>>> stock, and in all reports.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what's going on?  I have some screenshots, but am unsure
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>>
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Eric,
I thought that perhaps you had chosen to filter the register by date,
choosing to to show transactions up to today, but I discovered that is
not possible to select today, because that choice will not stick.  The
program automatically switches back to show all when I try to select
show up to today.  I think that is a bug, but not your bug.

It could be possible to select show up to a specific date that is
yesterday's date then enter a transaction with today's date, and it will
remain visible until the enter key is pressed, but the total will not be
there before the enter key is pressed.  That is a way to generate a view
similar to your screen grab, but seriously doubt that is how you did it.

You may have found a bug, but I have not figured out how to duplicate it
in my data file. 

Take a look at your View > Filter settings and verify that you do not
have any filtering selected.  Perhaps another user or a developer can
suggest something else to check.

David C