[GNC] Difficulties entering share purchases

[Geoff]

Hi Eric

I am running GnuCash 4.4 (on Windows) and when I duplicate a share 
purchase transaction it doesn't change any of the values.

If I then edit one of the values, a recalculation dialogue box pops up 
telling me that "The values entered for this transaction are 
inconsistent." and asking me "Which value would you like to have 
recalculated?"  Shares / Price / Value.

See attached screenshot.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 28/07/2021 1:23 am, Eric Coates via gnucash-user wrote:
> In January this year,whilst running Ubuntu 20.10 and GnuCash 3.x, I 
> purchased some shares and all seemed quite "normal". Since then I have 
> upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 21.04 (which I am running "On X 
> Org" as "Wayland" causes KeePassXC to fail) and installed GnuCash 4.4 
> (with F::Q 1.49 but that is probably irrelevant). Recently I bought some 
> more shares and things seemed to go a bit wappy.
> 
> Of lesser importance is the presentation of the tab that shows activity 
> of a past purchase of shares:
> Fig 1 shows the tab when a dividend payment is highlighted, note the 
> purchase of shares on 21/1/21;
> Fig 2 shows the same tab when the purchase is highlighted, the number of 
> shares has changed from 216 to 2;
> Fig 3 shows the appearance when the constituent splits are shown, 216 is 
> shown;
> Fig 4 shows what happens when the first split is highlighted.
> 
> Of far greater importance (to me) is what happens when I want to record 
> a purchase now. My past practice (which I have used for at least six 
> years) is to duplicate an earlier purchase and edit it to show the 
> details of the current purchase.
> 
> Fig 5 shows the initial state of the record which will be edited;
> Fig 6 shows the new transaction, the number of shares has been changed 
> from 216 to 100;
> Fig 7 shows what happens when I tab out of the shares column (the 
> intention being to delete the price, edit the buy cost and allow GnuCash 
> to calculate the unit price of the shares), the 100 changes to 1;
> Fig 8 shows the effect of deleting the share price, entering the total 
> price (1000.00) and tabbing to the next field (the number of shares 
> disappears);
> Fig 9 shows the effect of entering the transaction there was no 
> invitation to recalculate the share price (of course I expect the 
> Imbalance to appear)
> 
> For completeness: I have tried the same sequence of events on Ubuntu on 
> Wayland with the same results and I have set up a dummy set of accounts 
> and followed the instructions in the manual with consistent results.
> 
> It's almost certainly me at fault and I will accept the laughter when my 
> idiocy is pointed out but, please, somebody point it out to me.
> 
> In anticipation
> 
> Eric
> 
> PS: I initially suspected that the change in values that occur might 
> have something to do with the "smallest fraction traded" settings. 
> Changing these settings does affect what is displayed but not the 
> overall effect of failing to show the new purchase.
> 
> 
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