[kmymoney] [Bug 462513] Setup/creation of Investment account not possible : account type stock not existing

[Jack]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462513

Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
This behavior is as designed.  Investment accounts cannot be nested.  An
Investment Account can only contain Stock Accounts.  A Stock Account is only an
account to hold a single security within one Investment Account.  It is created
by KMM the first time you enter a transaction in an Investment Account
referring to a security.  That is why it is not explicitly listed in the
dropdown of account types.  If you want an account just to  hold other
Investment Accounts, make it an Asset type account.

I agree we need to find a way to make this more obvious, and I agree that error
message (while technically correct) is not very helpful.

As for your complaints about the manual, I would be happy to have an offline
discussion about how you might help improve it.  Some of your statements are
correct and well known to the documentation team (mainly myself) but others are
simply not true - although I do admit that the information in the manual is not
necessarily easy to find when you need it.  In particular, please note that the
manual explicitly identifies those chapters which have not been updated since
prior to the switch from KDE4 to KDE5, although I also admit that some of your
issues are legitimately with updated chapters.

I'll leave this bug open for a while, in case there are specific questions. 
General discussion would be better handled on one  of the venues listed at
https://kmymoney.org/support.html.

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