[GNC] Is there a better way enter multi-currency split transaction?

[John Ralls]

> On May 16, 2020, at 4:48 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
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>> On May 16, 2020 w20d137, at 4:19 AM, Davy Roid <davyroid at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Not sure whether this is a software limitation or there is a better way to
>> do this. For example, the following memorized transaction for recording
>> stock dividend in USD and Dividend Income in EUR
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>>                          Totalal Deposit             Withdrawal
>> Asset\Citibank\USD            100.00
>> Trading\Currency\EUR           92.00
>> Asset\Stock\ABC
>> Income\Dividend                                           92.00
>> Trading\Currency\USD                                     100.00
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>> My experience is the first time I enter this transaction in the Bank's USD
>> account, the exchange rate screen will popup and convert USD 100.00 to EUR
>> 92 in Income\Dividend. All I have to do is to add a dummy split to indicate
>> the relevant stock for this dividend.
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> You could just put the stock as a Memo in one of the relevant splits. I don’t see a need for a dummy split.
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>> However, if I re-enter this transaction with USD 50.00 using the memorized
>> transaction feature, only the first split transaction will be updated with
>> "50.00" and I have to manually change the remain
>> 3 figures. Exchange rate windows won't popup to calculate the currency
>> conversion.
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> Hmm... Seems like a bug. If you are entering transaction with two currencies GC will either ask, or make a guess, but I’ve never seen it do neither. What happens if you change the Dividend amount (as if you were entering this for the first time)? Does GC create new Trading or Imbalance splits? Does it alter the existing Trading splits?
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It's not autofill, that finished when it filled in the transaction with a copy of the other one that matched. It's because if there's more than two splits GnuCash doesn't know how to apportion the changed amount so the edit in basic view changes only the split in the current account.

Regards,
John Ralls