Problems getting quotes for funds

[Derek Atkins]

Sorry, it wasn't I that supplied your patch.

-derek

Paul Stansell <ps at ph.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> Dear Derek,
>
> Recently, you helped me and others by providing a patch to deal with
> fixing gnc-fq-dump so that it could get quotes from yahoo_europe after
> they made changes to their stock and funds codes.
>
> Well, the patch does fix gnc-fq-dump so that I can get the price of a
> fund 
>> From the command line, eg "gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe
>> GB0003243465GBP", but 
> I've just noticed that when I retrieve quotes for funds using
> gnucash's "Price Editor -> Get Quotes" the current quotes are not
> being stored or updated, and are not available to gnucash.  Stock
> prices, however, are being updated and are available.  Also, unlike
> the case before the patch was suppled, there are no error messages
> after the "Price Editor -> Get Quotes" attempt to indicate that
> getting the prices of any of the funds has failed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Stansell
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> The command was renamed to gnc-fq-dump.   Using your example:
>>
>> gnc-fq-dump yahoo MFEXPG.L
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>   symbol: MFEXPG.L             <=== required
>>     date: ** missing **        <=== required
>> currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>>     last: 0.00                 <=\
>>      nav:                      <=== one of these
>>    price:                      <=/
>> timezone:                      <=== optional
>>
>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
>>
>>
>> Maybe Yahoo changed their site and F::Q can't parse it?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>

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