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Posted by John Pollard on June 13, 2006, 9:11 am
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> Sorry - I use Quicken premier 2006 R4, but it has always been
> so in
> 06P. The transactions are downloaded into an investment
> account and
> are classified as BuyX, SellX, DivX, etc. In all thes cases
> the
> transaction originates in the investment account. I'm still
> mad about
> the change they made in the transaction register, I think it's
> the
> pits.
Ok, I did a bit more testing. I see what might be a bug, but I
do not get the behaviour you described; possibly because I
created new accounts in a Q2006 file, I did not test with
accounts converted from an earlier version of Quicken.
In my case, the only account that gave me a problem was a Single
Mutual Fund account ... and then *only* if I failed to specify a
non-zero value for shares of the security that the fund would
hold when I first created the account.
In no case did Quicken prevent me from changing the
non-investment account transaction Clr field from space to "c";
but if the transaction was a transfer from a Single Mutual Fund
account that had not had non-zero shares of its security
specified at account creation, then, if I tried to change a "c"
to an "R", I got a message that Quicken "Cannot record transfer.
You do not have a position in the destination account". I got
that message even when I did have a position in the account - it
seemed to matter whether that position was established during
account creation.
And even in the above situation, a Quicken reconcile in the
non-investment account had no trouble changing the "c" to an
"R".
I tried the test with a plain Brokerage account and the problem
did not occur: specifically, I entered a BuyX in the investment
account, then successfully manually modified the resulting
checking account transaction to have an "R" in the "Clr" field.
[There is a "Clr" field equivalent in investment accounts -
though it's not so labelled; it's on the leftmost side of the
"register" and when you have a transaction selected, it appears
as an arrowhead pointing down. Click on the arrowhead and a "c"
and "R" (and a space) will appear; clicking one will make the
that the "Clr" status for that transaction. But, that won't
change the clr status in the other half of a transfer
transaction.]
[Intuit tried to improve the investment account "register" in
Q2006, but they didn't really accomplish their goal. They have
acknowledged that they still want to improve it, so I guess it's
just a matter of time. But I don't think your problem is a
result of the changed user interface for investment accounts.]
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