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14 <h1>Currencies dialog
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15 <p>The currencies dialog is used to edit, modify and manage the currencies available for the wallets.
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19 <li>main window menu: Manage / Currencies
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20 <li>main window tool bar.
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24 <h2>Using currencies dialog
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25 <p><img class=
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26 <h3><img align=
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29 <th>Update on-line
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30 <td>Trigger to update exchanges rate on-line. This is disabled when you only have a single currency.
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31 <img src=
"images/d-warn.png"> <span class=
"warning">This is an extra feature relying on third party, your currencies may not be supported. See additional notes below.
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34 <h3><img align=
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"12" id=
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35 <p>display currency ISO code, name, symbol, exchange rate and last modified date
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"images/3.png" width=
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40 <td>open a dialog to add a new currency
<br>
41 + see the notes below.
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45 <td>open a dialog to edit the selected currency
</td>
49 <td>delete the selected currency
</td>
53 <td>set the selected currency to be the base currency
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57 <h3>Add currency notes
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59 - you can pick up new currencies from the official ISO
4217 list
<br>
60 - you can define a custom currency for discontinued or cryptocurrency
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62 <p>When you define a custom currency, please take care of the following:
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63 - the Name must be at least
3 chars long
<br>
64 - the ISO code is optional, but you cannot change it easily later on
<br>
65 - the ISO code must be
3 chars long and cannot be the same an existing ISO
4217 one
68 <h3>Online Currency Update
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69 <p>Here are the list of third party API service current and used in the past.
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70 - current: https://frankfurter.app
<br>
71 - until
5.2: https://api.fixer.io, see
<a href=
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/1785210">#
1785210</a><br>
72 - until
5.1.7: yahoo, see
<a href=
"https://bugs.launchpad.net/homebank/+bug/1730527">#
1730527</a><br>
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77 <h2>Using the edit currency dialog
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78 <p><img class=
"gtkshot right" src=
"images/dlg-currencies2.png"></p>
80 <p>Display the currency symbol and name
</p>
81 <h3>Exchange rate
</h3>
82 <p>Enable to chnage the exchange rate (if currency is not the base one)
</p>
84 <p>Display a sample of the currency format
</p>
86 <table class=
"widgetinfo">
89 <td>Symbol that prefix the amount
</td>
93 <td>define is the symbol is a prefix symbol
</td>
97 <td>Character to be used as decimal separator
</td>
101 <td>Number of digits after decimal separator
</td>
104 <th>Grouping char
</th>
105 <td>Character to be used as grouping separator
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