Hello Thank you for report. This is a known behaviour in some reports. Would you mind filing bugs describing the offending report (and options)?
On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 17:04, boldstripe <[email protected]> wrote: > Unexpected currency change in a report between two copies of Gnucash on > different machines > > > Conclusion > > > If you keep books in multiple currencies, make reports in multiple > currencies, and also sync your preferences folder (and hence your saved > reports) between machines, then you should probably make sure you have the > same 'default currency' preferences settings in all copies of Gnucash, in > particular the > > General Preference>Reports>Default Report Currency setting (Locale or > Choose) > > This setting affects the displayed currency even in reports you have > already > made and set to a currency in the report's individual Options while working > in one copy of Gnucash. It is a local preference specific to one copy of > Gnucash/one machine and is not stored in the same folder as the other > preferences (and the saved reports). > > This is not mentioned in the online help, presumably because syncing of the > preferences folder is outside the scope of normal usage, see Help> Report > Preferences > < > https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/set-prefs.html#prefs-reports> > > > Problem experienced > > > I am now keeping two sets of books, one each for local transactions in each > of two countries/currencies. > > I am /also/ syncing my Gnucash Preferences folder between two machines > using > a sync service like Dropbox (mine is pCloud). Although this syncs many > preferences and the Saved Reports, there are still local user preferences > that are specific to each machine. > > I created some reports in one or other currency and saved them. After > syncing, the reports showed up in Gnucash on both machines. But opening > them > had different effects. > > I had set the Report Currency I preferred for each report in Report Options > (Commodities>Report's currency) and I expected that would remain constant > between different copies of GnuCash. > > However, I discovered that a Report set in Options to show Currency 1 could > open in Currency 2 on the second machine. Additionally, if I then corrected > the displayed currency (using Report Options) on Machine 2 then, after > preferences syncing, the same report would now show the 'wrong/other' > currency when opened back on the first machine. > > I was surprised to discover that the machine-specific Gnucash Preferences > setting > > Reports>Report Default Currency > > was affecting the currency displayed in a Saved Report. > > The changing currencies problems only happens when reports are synced and > then opened in copies of Gnucash running with different values of Report > Default Currency. In other words, this preference setting can affect > reports, even after they have been created. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
