I think having colons in names of things interferes with GnuCash's auto-fill/lookup scheme when filling certain fields in a transaction. The colon is a special character that accepts an autofill suggestion and lists a sub selection list based on what the user types. EG, account name colon sub account name, and so on. Perhaps the same name suggestion/lookup function is used for security names, so it triggers an error about account names that should now be more generalized?
However, I don't know why you still get the error message if you've edited all colons out. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Pixel 3) On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 19:15 <gnucash.dg...@ncf.ca> wrote: > Hi, all. > > First, thanks for the continuing excellent work on Gnucash in the Dec. > release. I know it is a lot of work for the team; it is not thankless work. > > I recently set up some stock stocks in the Security editor and created > corresponding asset accounts as described in the documentation. The symbols > I was given had colons in them, in the form symbol:currency, such as > ABCD:USD, so I added these as the symbol and display symbol in the security > editor. > > When I next started Gnucash I was warned that I had account names with > colons, which is not true, I had securities linked to the accounts, and > they had the symbols I just described. Regardless, I edited each of the > securities to remove the trailing :USD parts, but I still see the warnings > on starting up. > > Any suggestions for the correct fix are appreciated. > > Ron > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.