QIF Fund Prices

[Michael T. Garrison Stuber]

> That sounds like a bug.  Would you be comfortable sending me a QIF
> file that demonstrates this?  For maximum usefulness, you could also
> do an "export accounts" and send me the resulting XML file.  It has
> just your account names/types, not the transactions.

Sure.  Under separate cover.

> What problem would this solve?  I'm not sure I understand what you want.

Okay, here is the problem I think this would solve, but maybe there's 
something I don't get.  One of the "funds" in my 401k is a privately 
managed thing which is not open to the public.  It does not have a ticker 
symbol.  It does not have externally published prices.  (i.e., there is no 
way Finance::Quote will ever find a price for it) GNUCash does not want to 
assign a current value to the fund from implicit prices.  Perhaps there is 
an option I've missed, but it seems the only way it assigns a value is 
through the explicit prices in the price editor.  I'd like the value to be 
based on the last implicit price, as that is the most up to date price 
source I have.  It seems right now I'd have to find the last implicit price 
and manually key it in to get a value.

While we're on the topic, is there a generic importer for historical 
prices?  I think can get net asset values is CSV from my provider.  I've 
tossed around the idea of switching over to Postgres and writing a script 
that inserts prices into the appropriate tablem, but I haven't gotten that 
far yet.  I suppose I could write an importer, though I'm not feeling that 
confident in my recent indoctrination into Scheme.

> Have you tried fetching the historical prices from an on-line source?
> I'd be interested to know how well (in general) it works to try to
> reproduce a DB of historical prices via on-line quoting services.

Okay, new user question here:  How do I do this?  I can't find any facility 
to fetch historical prices through GNUCash 1.6.  Am I missing something?