Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-16 Thread Sébastien de Menten
The default currency story has always puzzled me a bit in gnucash (a.o. when working on piecash) but with your last emails John, now it makes sense to me! There is a "Book currency" (the ROOT account currency) that is used to display the summary information at the bottom of the gnucash main window

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-15 Thread Alen Siljak
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 12:10 AM > From: "John Ralls" > To: "Alen Siljak" > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency > > > - I wanted to convert my XML book to SQLite and modify the

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 3:10 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Apr 14, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Alen Siljak wrote: >> >> >>> I think that the currency offered on the accounts page is the currency of >>> the root account. That’s set when you create a new book with File>New and >>> its default is t

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Alen Siljak wrote: > > > > I think that the currency offered on the accounts page is the currency of > > the root account. That’s set when you create a new book with File>New and > > its default is the default currency in Preferences. Once it’s set for a > > b

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread Alen Siljak
> I think that the currency offered on the accounts page is the currency of the root account. That’s set when you create a new book with File>New and its default is the default currency in Preferences. Once it’s set for a book it can’t be changed in the GUI. Thanks for the info, Joh

Re: [GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread John Ralls
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 8:22 AM, cicko wrote: > > On Linux (OpenSuse w/ Cinnamon) in GnuCash 3.0, I've set the default currency > to EUR: > > https://imgur.com/Pk9JEyi > > but the list of columns in the Accounts view still displays GBP as the only > option, i.e. Balance, Balance (GBP). There is

[GNC] Accounts columns currency

2018-04-14 Thread cicko
On Linux (OpenSuse w/ Cinnamon) in GnuCash 3.0, I've set the default currency to EUR: https://imgur.com/Pk9JEyi but the list of columns in the Accounts view still displays GBP as the only option, i.e. Balance, Balance (GBP). There is no Balance (EUR) option. On Windows this worked well, as far a