Trading splits are ignored; they don't turn on the ---split transaction--- flag 
in the Transfer Account cell. I think what's causing grief is the no-value 
Asset:Stock:ABC split.


Regards,
John Ralls

> On May 16, 2020, at 9:39 AM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Arguably a transaction that has 2 trading account splits and 2 regular 
> account splits should be treated like a regular transaction.
> 
> -derek
> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
> On May 16, 2020 10:07:02 AM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
>>> On May 16, 2020, at 4:48 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
>>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 16, 2020 w20d137, at 4:19 AM, Davy Roid <davyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Not sure whether this is a software limitation or there is a better way to
>>>> do this. For example, the following memorized transaction for recording
>>>> stock dividend in USD and Dividend Income in EUR
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>                         Totalal Deposit             Withdrawal
>>>> Asset\Citibank\USD            100.00
>>>> Trading\Currency\EUR           92.00
>>>> Asset\Stock\ABC
>>>> Income\Dividend                                           92.00
>>>> Trading\Currency\USD                                     100.00
>>>> 
>>>> My experience is the first time I enter this transaction in the Bank's USD
>>>> account, the exchange rate screen will popup and convert USD 100.00 to EUR
>>>> 92 in Income\Dividend. All I have to do is to add a dummy split to indicate
>>>> the relevant stock for this dividend.
>>> 
>>> You could just put the stock as a Memo in one of the relevant splits. I 
>>> don’t see a need for a dummy split.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> However, if I re-enter this transaction with USD 50.00 using the memorized
>>>> transaction feature, only the first split transaction will be updated with
>>>> "50.00" and I have to manually change the remain
>>>> 3 figures. Exchange rate windows won't popup to calculate the currency
>>>> conversion.
>>> 
>>> Hmm... Seems like a bug. If you are entering transaction with two 
>>> currencies GC will either ask, or make a guess, but I’ve never seen it do 
>>> neither. What happens if you change the Dividend amount (as if you were 
>>> entering this for the first time)? Does GC create new Trading or Imbalance 
>>> splits? Does it alter the existing Trading splits?
>>> 
>> 
>> It's not autofill, that finished when it filled in the transaction with a 
>> copy of the other one that matched. It's because if there's more than two 
>> splits GnuCash doesn't know how to apportion the changed amount so the edit 
>> in basic view changes only the split in the current account.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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