[GNC] Transaction between stock account and non-default currency account looks OK from perspective of former, completely blank in latter, doesn't even ask for a conversion rate, doesn't allow setting one

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 10, 2025, at 11:54, наб <nabijaczleweli at nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Given the following scenario:
> 1. unit of account PLN, root account in PLN
> 2. stock account with let's-say-LTC
> 3. bank/asset account in a non-PLN currency (let's say EUR)
> 
> Entering a transaction into the LTC account that looks like
>  Sell: LTC -2 shares @ 360 zł = 720 zł total sell
>  Buy:  EUR                      720 zł total buy
> looks correct in the LTC account view,
> but in the EUR account view it's all-0
> (all splits are there, in a 3-split variant there's 3 splits.
> but they're all 0).
> 
> The balance of the EUR account is unchanged by this transaction.
> 
> I am not prompted for a conversion rate.
> Right-clicking -> Edit Conversion Rate is refused,
> and gnucash tells me I can't be doing that.
> 
> As I hope is natural, a correct result would be
> (a) to be prompted for the conversion rate (let's say 4zł=1€), and
> (b) from the perspective of the EUR account, for the tx to look like
>  Sell: LTC -180 €
>  Buy:  EUR +180 €
> (c) the balance of the EUR account increases by 180€ instead of by 0.
> 
> I reproed this on Debian gnucash 5.6-1~bpo12+1 and 5.13-1,
> and on Win32 5.11.
> 
> I'm attaching screenshots as well as a reproducer reduced from my journal.
> 
> Reporting here since I'm seemingly forbidden from reporting on bugzilla.

You have to request an account, see  https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla#New_Accounts . But you have no bug to report, you just need to learn to use GnuCash correctly.
> 
> Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed.

Turn on trading accounts and make the transaction look like the attached screenshot.

Regards,
John Ralls

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