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Linas Vepstas linas at linas.org
Tue Jul 27 20:17:24 EDT 2004


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:48:21PM +0200, Benjamin So was heard to remark:
> Hi Linas,
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I'm glad that there is a workaround. Having said 
> that, I'm not quite sure how to go about doing this. Could you offer a 
> bit more guidance? Currently I'm having a bit of trouble getting past 
> Step 1.

You might try to browse the website run by the european bank,
and see what they offer.  Look for links that promise cyptic
data, something like "users of xyz click here foru auto update"
or something like that.

--linas

> On 27 Jul 2004, at 15:11, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:20:44AM +1200, Ben was heard to remark:
> >>Hi there,
> >>
> >>I'm just starting out with GnuCash, and now have all my data
> >>entered. What I'd like to do now is to get automatic updates
> >>of securities in my portfolio. This works for shares listed
> >>on major exchanges, but I can't get it working for a couple
> >>of managed funds, run by two separate European banks.
> >>
> >>I asked one of the banks the information for one of the
> >>funds in question, and got a TK Valor Number of 956265 and
> >>an ISIN of BE0169006328. How am I supposed to input these
> >>data into GnuCash?
> >
> >If the data sources aren't already in gnucash, then there's no easy 
> >way.
> >
> >You'd have to do the following:
> >1) find a website that offers the data
> >2) add to the perl module Finance::Quote to go to that website(s)
> >3) update the gnucash menus to dsiplay the new finance::quote module(s)
> >   as a possible data source.
> >
> >--linas
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >pub  1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <linas at linas.org>
> >PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984  3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 
> >5933
> >

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pub  1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <linas at linas.org>
PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984  3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933


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