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  11     HomeBank User manual
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  14     <h1>Currencies dialog</h1>
  15     <p>The currencies dialog is used to edit, modify and manage the currencies available for the wallets.</p>
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  17     <h2>Dialog call</h2>
  18     <ul>
  19       <li>main window menu: Manage / Currencies</li>
  20       <li>main window tool bar.</li>
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  24     <h2>Using currencies dialog</h2>
  25     <p><img class="gtkshot right" src="images/dlg-currencies1.png"></p>
  26     <h3><img align="bottom" border="0" height="12" id="graphics5" name="graphics5" src="images/1.png" width="12"> General</h3>
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  29         <th>Update on-line</th>
  30         <td>Trigger to update exchanges rate on-line. This is disabled when you only have a single currency.<br>
  31         <img src="images/d-warn.png">&nbsp;<span class="warning">This is an extra feature relying on third party, your currencies may not be supported. See additional notes below.</span></td>
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  34     <h3><img align="bottom" border="0" height="12" id="graphics6" name="graphics6" src="images/2.png" width="12"> Currencies list</h3>
  35     <p>display currency ISO code, name, symbol, exchange rate and last modified date</p>
  36     <h3><img align="bottom" border="0" height="12" id="graphics7" src="images/3.png" width="12"> Buttons</h3>
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  38       <tr>
  39         <th>Add</th>
  40         <td>open a dialog to add a new currency<br>
  41         + see the notes below.</td>
  42       </tr>
  43       <tr>
  44         <th>Edit</th>
  45         <td>open a dialog to edit the selected currency</td>
  46       </tr>
  47       <tr>
  48         <th>Delete</th>
  49         <td>delete the selected currency</td>
  50       </tr>
  51       <tr>
  52         <th>Set as base</th>
  53         <td>set the selected currency to be the base currency</td>
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  55     </table>
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  57     <h3>Add currency notes</h3>
  58     <p>
  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</p>
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  62     <p>When you define a custom currency, please take care of the following:<br>
  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
  66     </p>
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  68     <h3>Online Currency Update</h3>
  69     <p>Here are the list of third party API service current and used in the past.<br>
  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</h2>
  78     <p><img class="gtkshot right" src="images/dlg-currencies2.png"></p>
  79     <h3>Currency</h3>
  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>
  83     <h3>Format</h3>
  84     <p>Display a sample of the currency format</p>
  85     <p>Customize</p>
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  87       <tr>
  88         <th>Symbol</th>
  89         <td>Symbol that prefix the amount</td>
  90       </tr>
  91       <tr>
  92         <th>Is prefix</th>
  93         <td>define is the symbol is a prefix symbol</td>
  94       </tr>
  95       <tr>
  96         <th>Decimal char</th>
  97         <td>Character to be used as decimal separator</td>
  98       </tr>
  99       <tr>
 100         <th>Frac digits</th>
 101         <td>Number of digits after decimal separator</td>
 102       </tr>
 103       <tr>
 104         <th>Grouping char</th>
 105         <td>Character to be used as grouping separator</td>
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