wish: increase exchange rate size

[Leonardo Pérez]

Currently: any exchange rate introduced for currency must be up to 5 digit long with 6 decimal places.

Explanation: Although this might be enough for 99% of use case. It also limits the usefulness of exchange rate on compromised economies that suffer from hyperinflation that require more than 5 digits to express the exchange rate. It limits the usefulness to deal with heavily devalued currencies.

Wish: An increase on the limitations on the exchange rate input field that allows to use exchange rates higher than 99999,000000 This would increase the usability cases for people who do not live on a developed world economy or who have to deal with runaway currencies.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

In current version (5.3)
there is only a limitation of 8 decimal digits

[Leonardo Pérez (stringdom)]

I would like to add a use case example.

Current exchange rates for USD to VES is: 114040.96 or otherwise VES to USD: 0.00000876877921757235

The UI of Homebank will truncate the first number to 99999.00000000 and the second one to 0.00000876 (It would instead display 0.000009 on the currency window, I don't know which it uses for the actual math) neither of these is accurate to reflect actual exchange transactions.

I suppose that instead I'm actually wishing for a more robust implementation for handling exchange rates and multiple currencies.

[Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen)]

I will enable 6 digits instead of 5. But will not change the decimal part.
I suggest you use another tool, as HB might be inaccurate with such dust of amount or such bigger amount.