On 10/7/07, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 10/7/07, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quoting Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > >> > But what about the possibility of associating each stock transaction > >> > with a lot which is associated with a specific brokerage account? > > .. > >> Nope, a Lot combines multiple "splits" in the same account. It's based > >> on the Split->Account, so you cannot tie it to a different account. > > > > How about assigning a kvp to a stock lot that refers to some kind of > > "alias" account that can then show its assigned lots' transactions in > > one view? > > You've left the realm of "user" questions -- this should migrate > to -devel. Please CC responses there (and feel free to drop -user). > > Are you offering to implement such a feature? You'd need to double-link > the objects, because I suspect most of the time you'd want to see the > list of stock transactions for a particular account, rather that asking > a particular transaction which account it's tied to. I have no idea how > you'd represent this in the UI. I also don't understand why you want > to do this in the first place. I would think that this would be better > served by a report that combines the same stock from different accounts > into a single count.
One important reason for doing it is to audit or reconcile statements I get from the brokerage firms (but perhaps there is a better way). And I guess 'll have to try an implementation since, in order to replace Quicken, I believe this is a must-have capability. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
