investment default price entry question

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Sonntag, 28. Januar 2024 20:36:32 CET Jack via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> On 2024.01.28 03:27, Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 28. Januar 2024 01:52:34 CET Jack via KMyMoney-devel  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > In the new investment dialog, price entry can be price per share,  
> > all
> > > shares, or default.
> > > I assume the default is the setting for the Investment account  
> > within
> > > which you are creating the investment.
> > > In the new (investment) account dialog, you have the same three  
> > choices.
> > > Where do you see or set the default referred to here?  I cannot  
> > find it
> > > in any configuration dialog.
> > 
> > Agreed, it's a bit misleading. The default is the program default  
> > which
> > is "Price per share". Maybe, the initial idea was to have that  
> > modifiable
> > also through the settings and that got never implemented. So in the
> > investment account editor "default" and "price per share" are doing  
> > the same.
> I see the price entry dropdown when editing an investment account.   
> However, I do not see it as part of the new account dialog.  Did I miss  
> it, or can that only be set when editing the account?

Ooops, that can certainly be.

> In the future (maybe as part of the Investments overall redesign) we  
> can either add a place to specify the overall preference for Price  
> Entry, or reword the one in the Account Edit (and maybe add to the New  
> Account) dialog.

+1

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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