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

[Derek Atkins]

Arguably a transaction that has 2 trading account splits and 2 regular 
account splits should be treated like a regular transaction.

-derek
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On May 16, 2020 10:07:02 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>> On May 16, 2020, at 4:48 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
>> <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 16, 2020 w20d137, at 4:19 AM, Davy Roid <davyroid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>                          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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> 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
>
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