[GNC] Difficulties entering share purchases

[Eric Coates]

Geoff

Thanks for responding. The sequence of events that you describe is what 
I would expect but not only do the numbers disappear (see Fig 8) but the 
dialogue you mention just doesn't happen (see the description of Fig 9)

Take care

Eric

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On 28/07/2021 01:21, Geoff wrote:
> 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
> =====
>
>
> 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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