[Kmymoney] Consistency Check Messages

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi Cristian,

I'll try inline.


On Friday 16 January 2015 10:57:32 you  wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> This part of the consistency check does the following:
> "make sure, that shares and value have the same number if they
> represent the same currency."
> 
> Thomas, could you elaborate a bit about the meaning of the shares and
> the value of a split? Sometimes I also find it difficult to figure out
> the meaning of these fields. What I know is that the transaction has
> an account and the split has another account. 

Not really. The transaction has a currency which will be the one used as the 
currency for the value field of all splits in this transaction. 

> If the two accounts have
> different currencies then the shares represent the number of units
> represented by the split in the split account's currency and the value
> is the number of units in the transactions account's currency. Thus
> the price (conversion rate) is value/shares. Is this correct?

value is the number of units in the transaction's currency. The remainder of 
the above is correct.

> If you see the fix it means that you have transactions with splits in
> an account that have different shares and values even though the split
> account's currency is the same as the transaction account's currency.

Yep, again with the twist on the transaction's currency.

> The 'T000000....1234' is the transaction id that you can lookup in
> your kmymoney file.
> 
> $zcat file.kmy | grep T000000....1234
> 
> Please take a look at the transactions and try to figure how they
> ended up in this state.

Could be, that the latest changes on the dividend editor cause this.

Regards

Thomas



> 
> 2015-01-16 10:22 GMT+02:00 timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za>:
> > Hi
> > I am running Kmymoney Version 4.7.90-6545e07c13
> > Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.2 on Mint 17.1 Rebecca MATE
> > 
> > I have not worked out what it is that I am doing exactly to cause it ,
> > but I am now getting continual consistency check messages as per
> > attached. The last single message was after I had made an edit to the
> > Memo of a dividend reinvestment transaction, but had not edited the
> > values of the shares or prices.
> > 
> > The messages are rather vague as they do not give the name of the share
> > or indicate what correction was made. Is the T000000....1234 a reference
> > or the correction?
> > 
> > Any help would be valuable as I have not been doing anything different
> > to what I previously did without the messages.
> > 
> > The only things I can think of are:
> > 1) I have compile and installed this version of kmm from source
> > 2) Work was done on the QIF dividend area to correct a separate problem
> > 
> > Regards
> > Timothy
> > 
> > 
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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