Chapter 8 - investment accounts

[David T.]

> On Nov 30, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>> Message: 12
>>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 01:06:50 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk>
>>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: Chapter 8 - investment accounts
>>> Message-ID: <1480324010587-4687800.post at n4.nabble.com>
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>>> 
>>> The only other observation or comment relates to viewing lots. Once in
>>> the account register then click 'view lots', select the lot from top
>>> right box it automatically enters two more scrub amounts without using
>>> 'scrub' button.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> This sounds like a problem [1] that I noticed when you want to undo
>> scrubbing and delete the capital gain transactions before deleting the lot
> or
>> unlinking the splits from the lot.
>> In this case, the correct procedure seems to be to delete the lot or
> unlink the
>> splits from the lot before deleting the capital gain transaction.
>> 
>> If this is not your problem, please detail how to reproduce it?
>> 
>> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774658
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Chris Good
> 
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:09:21 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Jamestk <davidjamestk at hotmail.co.uk>
>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: RE: Chapter 8 - investment accounts
>> Message-ID: <1480378161175-4687817.post at n4.nabble.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> 
>> Chris, you're a gentleman, that's the one although i think mine popped up
>> after changing from the default 'orphaned gains/loss' account. The
>> underlying code may not recognize the change leading to a recalculation on
>> view.
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>> tp4665181p4687817.html
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>> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I've just tested doing multiple buys and sells, and multiple scrubbing and
> changing the Orphaned Gains account to other Income:Gains:Stk accounts,
> re-opening View Lots and clicking various lots, but I cannot reproduce your
> problem.
> Do you mean it created extra transactions in the register?
> You don't mean that it showed extra splits in the 'Splits in Lot' panel for
> the selected lot? This is to be expected. It will show the splits linked to
> the lot by prior scrubbing.
> 
> John Ralls also reported in this thread (Nov 04, 2013; 4:37am) a similar
> problem but I have been unable to duplicate that also.
> 
> Can you please advise exactly how to duplicate the problem, what you are
> seeing and what you expected to see, your operating system and GnuCash
> version? Screen dumps may help. You can attach screen dumps to email
> messages. Do not insert screen dumps inline into messages as these are
> removed by GnuCash mail processing.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris Good

More to the point: if there are actually issues with how GnuCash is handling this situation, David should put all the information that Chris lists into a bug on Bugzilla, so that the developers can track the problem properly.


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