[GNC] Account Hirarchy with different currencies cause online quotes to fail in some cases

[Ove Grunnér]

Now that may explain things :-)

I do not recall setting a currency at that stage,

in my file I have:
<gnc:account version="2.0.0">
  <act:name>Root Account</act:name>
  <act:id type="guid">d59619a832484e5b9ea20231801ceb25</act:id>
  <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
</gnc:account>

I have changed it to:
<gnc:account version="2.0.0">
  <act:name>Root Account</act:name>
  <act:id type="guid">d59619a832484e5b9ea20231801ceb25</act:id>
  <act:type>ROOT</act:type>
  <act:commodity>
    <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
    <cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
  </act:commodity>
</gnc:account>


unfortunately it made no discernible difference :-(

Ove


On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 21:45, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> Ove,
>
> Your book currency is the currency set on the invisible Root account, set
> in the New Account Hierarchy Assistant (or not if you didn't use that
> assistant to set up your book). The only way to see it once you've finished
> the assistant is to look in the file. The Default Currency preference is
> used mostly for creating new accounts.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Aug 9, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Ove Grunnér <write2ove at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Frank, Thanks for looking at this.
> >
> > The book currency in my GnuCash setup is Euro. (I referred to it as Base
> Currency earlier on), That is configured under
> Edit/Preferences/Account/Default Currency
> > it is set to: Locale EUR (Euro)
> > my Report Currency specified under Edit/Preferences/Reports/Default
> Report Currency is set to: Chose Swedish Krona (SEK)
> >
> > When I look at my Swedish investments (that includes American Shares) I
> want to see them summed up in SEK
> > When I look at all my investments I want to see them summed up in Euro.
> >
> > If I look under accounts, I can see the totals of each sub Account in
> the currency I have set for that individual account, but the Swedish
> umbrella accounts do not include the USD sub account totals
> > The same is true for a report, I can see the currency for each account,
> and an additional column with my Report Currency specified.
> > The report works fine when looking at it using Euro as reporting
> currency, but not in SEK.
> >
> > My problem seem to be that I am not able to automatically fetch all 3
> exchange rates (EUR/USD, EUR/SEK, SEK/USD)
> > I only get (EUR/USD, EUR/SEK)
> > As such the SEK account does not add up the USD amounts from the USD sub
> account.
> > If I manually add the SEK/USD exchange rate it all works.
> >
> > I have tried selecting EUR, SEK & USD in the Security Editor, and also
> just SEK & USD.
> > but in both cases I only get the two exchange rates and GnuCash does not
> seem to calculate the third based on the two it has.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Thanks Ove.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 19:39, Frank H. Ellenberger <
> frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Am Mi., 7. Aug. 2019 um 19:34 Uhr schrieb Ove Grunnér <
> write2ove at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > No Problem, John, thanks for helping,
> > >
> > > Anyone else got this working somehow?
> > >
> > > br Ove.
> >
> > The answer would depend on your book cuurrency, which I could not find
> > in your description. Then I would assume, the report currency and what
> > you want to see are the same?
> >
> > Then it is obvisious, you should fetch the rates between your book
> > currency and the foreign currencies...
> >
> > Regards
> > Frank
>
>