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  1. Bug #278541
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 278541

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Malcolm Parsons (malcolm-parsons) wrote : Re: Cannot create account of type "currency"

Yes, this functionality used to exist in gnucash.

I first used it in August 2000.
I last used it in March 2003.
I was using Debian unstable in 2003, so it was probably gnucash 1.8.2.

The current documentation does still document the Currency account type:

Help_ch_Account-Actions.xml:
              <row>
                <entry><para>Currency</para></entry>
                <entry><para>Currency Accounts are used for trading currencies.</para></entry>
              </row>

I found this in the source:

guint32
xaccAccountTypesValid(void)
{
    guint32 mask = (1 << NUM_ACCOUNT_TYPES) - 1;
    mask &= ~((1 << ACCT_TYPE_CURRENCY) | /* DEPRECATED */
              (1 << ACCT_TYPE_ROOT)); /* ROOT */

    return mask;
}

So maybe the functionality was replaced, but the old documentation remained.