I'll volunteer to help...

[Jon Lapham]

David Hampton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:46, Jon Lapham wrote:
> 
>>Bill, question for you.  I still have yet to get the online quotes to 
>>actually work.  In the price editor, the "source" for my stock quotes 
>>still says "user:price-editor".  I *think* this may be a symptom of 
>>whatever my problem is.  How do I change that?
> 
> 
> That just means that you entered that particular stock quote by hand. 
> If F::Q had retrieved the stock quote, the price editor would indicate
> F::Q in this field.
> 

Okay, so in other words, it shows you where the last price update came 
from.  Right?  I'll make a note in the docs.

>>I have edited the stock accounts themselves and changed them to "Get 
>>Online Quotes".  Oh, and I can sucessfully run "dump-finance-quote" (so 
>>Finance::Quote is installed correctly).  However, when I click on the 
>>"Get Quotes" button in the Price Editor window, a window appears saying 
>>"There was an unknown error while retieving the price quotes".  I've 
>>tried a number of different quote sources (yahoo, usa, etc), all with 
>>the same result.
> 
> 
> Try running "finance-quote-check". If that works, try running: "gnucash
> --debug --add-price-quotes <filename>" and see if it gives you any more
> information.

Here you go:

lapham at bilbo > /usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check
("vwd" "australia" "usa" "troweprice" "amfiindia" "nasdaq" 
"bmonesbittburns" "yahoo_asia" "canada" "tiaacref" "troweprice_direct" 
"yahoo" "fidelity" "dwsfunds"
"yahoo_australia" "indiamutual" "asia" "canadamutual" "fidelity_direct" 
"nyse" "asx" "fool" "tdwaterhouse" "trustnet" "ftportfolios_direct" 
"uk_unit_trusts" "dutch" "ftportfolios" "fundlibrary" "aex" 
"yahoo_europe" "vanguard" "europe")

lapham at bilbo > gnucash --debug --add-price-quotes 
/home/accounts/invest_Example
gnucash: [D] "handling arg ""--add-price-quotes"
gnucash: [D] "files to open: "()
gnucash: [D] "starting up (2)."
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-file looking for ""finance-quote-check"" in 
"("/usr/share/gnucash")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-file looking for ""finance-quote-helper"" in 
"("/usr/share/gnucash")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-helper"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-helper"
gnucash: [D] "loading system configuration"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-file looking for ""config"" in "("/etc/gnucash")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/etc/gnucash/config"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/etc/gnucash/config"
gnucash: [D] "loading user configuration"
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "report-hook
   #<procedure business-report-function ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "startup-hook
   #<procedure #f ()>
gnucash: [W] "There was an unknown error while retrieving the price 
quotes.""
"
gnucash: [D] "Shutdown -- exit-status: "0
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "shutdown-hook
   #<procedure #f ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "save-options-hook
   #<procedure gnc:save-style-sheet-options ()>


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