tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/moneydance-development/1846-categories-currency-changerInfinite Kind: Discussion 2024-01-07T23:40:27Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/424898642017-05-04T06:13:38Z2024-01-07T23:39:18Zcategories currency changer<div><p>Hi<br>
Found myself among the people who need to change categories currency, mostly because by some weird reason reports are generated based on category currencies instead of the base currency.</p>
<p>There are multiple requests for this feature:</p>
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<li><a href="http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/problems/293-cannot-change-currency-of-a-category">http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/problems/293-cannot-change...</a></li>
<li><a href="http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/suggestions/1332-exchange-rate-and-foreign-amount">http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/suggestions/1332-exchange-...</a></li>
<li><a href="http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/general-questions/4818-how-to-change-the-currency-of-a-category">http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/general-questions/4818-how...</a></li>
<li><a href="http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/general-questions/15192-messed-up-currency">http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/general-questions/15192-me...</a></li>
</ul>
<p>..and more, with support saying that this is impossible because it will mess up existing transactions.</p>
<p>I tried creating new categories with desired currency and batch moving transactions to it, didn't work well. I also tried to use find and replace extension but it seems to be buggy as it applies conversion rates to already converted amounts.</p>
<p>Anyways, long story short, thanks to extensions API I concocted <a href="https://github.com/eprst/moneydance-categories-currency-changer">this extension</a>.</p>
<p>Use at your own risk. Works fine for me, all my balances stayed put after I changed currencies of ~20 heavily used categories. No guarantees though and I highly recommend making a backup first.</p></div>konstantin.sobolev