Related to this issue, I think that it is not very clear that there are
accounts, currencies and commodities (or securities) in the data and that
investment accounts require a unioue combination of all three items.
There can be (in fact must be )many security accounts for the same security if
they are under different broker accounts or in different currencies.
Then the price table defines the relationship over time of these items.
Please excuse the sloppy editing. I am doing this on a tablet.
David C
Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT&T 4G LTE tablet
------ Original message------From: David T. via gnucash-develDate: Wed, Jul 27,
2016 1:35 AMTo: GnuCash-Devel;Subject:New Account Dialog
Hello,In recent weeks, there have been a number of threads on the user list in
which users have had difficulties setting up accounts for equities and mutual
funds. These users have not been able to set the Security/Currency to an
appropriate value because the account type was not correctly set.I believe that
the New Account dialog contributes to this problem by the way it is set up. The
sequence of fields in the dialog does not match the required sequence of input;
the user must correctly set the Account Type field (located at the bottom of
the dialog) *BEFORE* they can correctly set the Security/currency field. Not
only is this sequence confusing to new users, it is an annoyance for
experienced users as well, since the user must manually relocate to the type
field, set the type, and then manually relocate back to the currency field to
set it. This quickly gets burdensome.At the very least, I would suggest that it
would be much clearer and easier to all users to have the Account Type field
placed immediately after the Description field, and that it be changed to a
drop down list. This would make it clearer to new users and more efficient for
others, without entailing a great deal of change to the program.I can add a bug
to bugzilla if it seems that this would be
useful.David_______________________________________________gnucash-devel
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