On Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 at 04:08, J. A. Harris <prod...@harrisja.us> wrote: > > Looking at the replies with a long view, to me they are supporting the > idea of extending gnucash so it supports creating new currencies. Yes, > one can use existing currencies or create new > FUNDs/NYSEs/NEWNAMESPACEs. But it appeared there was a consensus that > those workarounds were a less than ideal kludgy solution. (I have been > repurposing currencies and do not know how many times I have had to stop > and figure out what "XTS", "XXX" or "AMD" actually represented. > Certainly any report I generate will be confusing to anyone who will not > know how I am using those currencies.)
Wanted to add something to the last part of that "discussion", as I hadn't been aware that one could do this, and doing it does appear to somewhat negate the claim of confusion. Fred Bone has pointed that you do have the ability to edit the "Display Symbol" of any of the pre-supplied ISO 4217 Currencies, so I thought I'd add in an example of what happens when you do. I did this for the obvious choice for a re-adjustment, the "Angola Kwanza Reajustado" changing its "Display Symbol" from AOR to "Air Miles" An as aside, for folk who like to see what's going on under the hood, if you have your Gnucash data stored in uncompressed XML, you get an extra stanza, as follows, added to the Gnucash file: 51a52,61 > <cmdty:id>AOR</cmdty:id> > <cmdty:slots> > <slot> > <slot:key>user_symbol</slot:key> > <slot:value type="string">Air Miles</slot:value> > </slot> > </cmdty:slots> > </gnc:commodity> > <gnc:commodity version="2.0.0"> > <cmdty:space>ISO4217</cmdty:space> which suggests, if you are comfortable editing Gnucash files, you can probably add "Display Symbol" overrides for more than one Currency, without even firing up GnuCash - nice to know! But. I digress, so, back to the example. I then created two accounts Assets:Future Assets:Air Miles Income:Air Miles both denominated in "AOR" (FWIW, the one time I had to choose my adjusted ISO 4217 Currency by its original name/symbol), and then created two sub-accounts of the latter, so Income:Air Miles:Scheme Income:Air Miles:Petrol Partner however, both accounts, by virtue of being created as sub-accounts, automatically get a default of denomination of "AOR", so you no longer have to remember which ISO 4217 Currency you have overriden for use with the accounts. I then created a couple of TXNs, putting Income into the Asset, and then generated a report (the rendering here is best viewed in a monospaced font) Transaction Report >From 01/01/2024 To 31/12/2024 Date Description Transfer from/to Amount Air Miles March 2024 01/03/2024 Opening Offer Income:Air Miles:Scheme Air Miles500.00 25/03/2024 Some Fuel Co Income:Air Miles:Petrol Partner Air Miles26.00 Total For March 2024 Air Miles526.00 Total For Air Miles Air Miles526.00 Grand Total Air Miles526.00 As you can see, ALL mention of the "Angola Kwanza Reajustado", or rather, its ISO 4217 symbol "AOR", has gone and the report appears to be solely denominated in "Air Miles". A very simplistic example, I'll grant you but, still - a lot less confusing that a report denominated in "AOR", which could well be interpreted as Album-oriented rock pressings in certain contexts. Hoping that helps you get closer to where you wanted to be. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
