[Kmymoney-devel] "Investment View" Post - Anonymised file wrt Investment acc't that won't Close.

[Allan]

On 24/07/14 12:56, Steffie wrote:
> Hi & thank you, Cristian & Allan
>
> I'm very sorry to have wasted your time, but very grateful for your
> help. I had not properly understood the KMM definition of a Child
> account, thus i had not recognised that in fact it was the ongoing
> presence of the stock account that was the cause of the main Investment
> account not being "Closable". As soon as i understood this oversight of
> mine tonight, when i read your msg, I was able to close the stock
> account & then voila immediately also close the main Investment account
> afterwards. I feel quite silly, but also good that with your nice help i
> have learned a useful lesson.
>
> Many thanks!
> Steffie.

No worries!  It would probably help if a tooltip message was provided to 
explain the reason.

In your interest in removing details no longer required, you may find 
that the underlying security is still showing up.  If you wish to hide 
that, then that depends on whether you wish to retain pricing information.

Allan



> On 24/07/14 15:40, Cristian Oneț wrote:
>> 2014-07-23 20:18 GMT+03:00 Allan<agander93 at gmail.com>:
>>> On 23/07/14 13:14, Steffie wrote:
>>>> Hi Cristian & Hei Ku
>>>>
>>>> Attached pls find the file in question. I assume any further discussion
>>>> necessary will occur back in the forum? BTW, i'm very grateful for your
>>>> assistance!!
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Steffie.
>>>>
>>> Hi Steffie
>>>
>>> I see a few investment accounts with zero balance.  Is there a particular
>>> one you have difficulty with?  If so, what is its account name in the anon
>>> file?  If it has more than one stock account, which one?
>>>
>>> Usually, if you need to close an investment, it is necessary to delete all
>>> its prices.
>> It's not necessary to delete the prices, these [1] are the only
>> conditions that need to be fulfilled to be able to close an account.
>> In this case condition 2 was not true. One must first close the child
>> accounts then the parent account.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Cristian
>>
>> [1]https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=121269&p=316031#p315781
>>
>>> Allan