Trouble Loading Finance::Quote

[John Layman]

The doc is rather misleading in this regard, given that it several times
states that the feature 'automatically' updates prices.  There is nothing
very 'automatic' about doing so only through menu selection.

I am paralleling with Money 2008 and my Money online services have expired,
so I've been running Python scripts in the scheduler to update the stock
quotes in Money.  I'll try doing the same with GNUCash.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:02 AM
To: john.layman at laymanandlayman.com
Cc: 'gnucash-user'
Subject: Re: Trouble Loading Finance::Quote


On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:15 AM, John Layman wrote:

> No, the author is not mistaken.  My experience has been the same as he 
> describes.  Prices are never updated except by using the Price Editor 
> 'Get Quotes' button.
> 

Yes, there are only two ways to update prices, from the command line (which
isn't something that most MSWin users are going to try) and from the Get
Quotes button. Where you and the author are mistaken is believing that it's
supposed to work otherwise.

Regards,
John Ralls