<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:01 AM, allan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aganderson@ukonline.co.uk">aganderson@ukonline.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 15/06/10 10:48, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:38 AM, allan <<a href="mailto:aganderson@ukonline.co.uk">aganderson@ukonline.co.uk</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:aganderson@ukonline.co.uk">aganderson@ukonline.co.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On 15/06/10 06:51, Thomas Baumgart wrote:<br>
> > Hi all,<br>
> ><br>
> > on Tuesday 15 June 2010 02:35:19 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:14 AM, aga <<a href="mailto:aganderson@ukonline.co.uk">aganderson@ukonline.co.uk</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:aganderson@ukonline.co.uk">aganderson@ukonline.co.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
> >>> Hi Alvaro<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Funnily enough, I was just thinking yesterday that I should be<br>
> putting in<br>
> >>> a wish-list item for the prices dialog.<br>
> <snip><br>
> >>> 2) Also, partly in connection with the above, but also as a separate<br>
> >>> wish, would be the display of the account name alongside each<br>
> entry. In<br>
> >>> my prices<br>
> >>> list I have more than one separate entry for a few securities.<br>
> I don't<br>
> >>> mean<br>
> >>> different prices, but, with the 'display every entry'<br>
> UN-checked, a few<br>
> >>> prices<br>
> >>> show more than once. This probably goes back to when I split up<br>
> some<br>
> >>> funds that I had bought at different times and unfortunately<br>
> gave them<br>
> >>> each a duplicate security instead of sharing the one. I have now<br>
> >>> corrected that and<br>
> >>> they do now share the one security, but the old entries remain<br>
> and I want<br>
> >>> to<br>
> >>> remove them, but there is no indication of which prices belong<br>
> to which<br>
> >>> account and which are therefore redundant.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>> If the price entry had with it the account name it would be easy<br>
> to see<br>
> >>> which<br>
> >>> prices list entry referred to which account. Also, though, I<br>
> don't use<br>
> >>> the<br>
> >>> symbol on a day-so-day basis, and am much more comfortable<br>
> seeing the<br>
> >>> security<br>
> >>> name rather than its symbol.<br>
> >><br>
> >> The issue I have with this, is those prices which are associated with<br>
> >> multiple accounts.<br>
> >> How do we display the accounts in those cases?<br>
> >> Do we display it only when there is only one account related to<br>
> that price?<br>
> >> If we don't display multiple accounts, how do we differentiate<br>
> from the<br>
> >> case when there are no accounts related to a price?<br>
> ><br>
> > That's exactly the problem.<br>
> ><br>
> > [...]<br>
> ><br>
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> At the moment, it displays a line for each security but shows only the<br>
> symbol. With the proposed change, for a particular symbol, each line<br>
> would show in addition a different investment account.<br>
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> Oh, you are talking about the commodity and currency columns right? \O/<br>
> Right now, there we only display the id of the security, whereas we<br>
> could display the name too.<br>
> And to be more clear, the commodity displayed here is not the investment<br>
> account, that's why we seemed confused.<br>
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</div></div>Ah, but because the securities are all one and the same, their names<br>
also will be the same. It is the parent investment account name that<br>
is the needed information.<br>
<br>
Just to be totally clear, I have the same security in three different<br>
investment accounts, one for each year of purchase (because the<br>
investment company separates dividend payments by year (their account is<br>
per year). Each security has the same name because they are identical,<br>
but the investment account names differ. When I edit an entry<br>
in the prices list, the only way to be sure it's the correct entry is to<br>
have its parent account name visible.<br></blockquote></div><br>It is already complicated to get the corresponding account, and you need the parent account?<br>Can't you temporarily change the name of the account, match by that and then change it back? :/<br>
<br>I've been thinking about this issue, and I'd agree with adding a "Stock name" column for the case when a price is related to an invesment. Besides this very specific case, I don't see the point to add the parent name. Of course, there must be cases I probably haven't thought about, but let's try to keep the columns to a minimum.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Alvaro<br><br><br>