Problems getting quotes for funds

[Dave Reiser]

Did you apply the patch or hand edit? Did all the changes actually apply 
  successfully? Are you using finance-quote 1.13? I've done the switch a 
couple times, and it has worked (except for the obvious problem that it 
breaks the rest of Yahoo quotes...).

Dave
Paul Stansell wrote:
> 
> Dear Dave,
> 
> I'd like a fix for this too.   Do you have any ideas why what you 
> suggested below doesn't work for me:
> 
>   gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe IT0003110860ITA
>   Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>       symbol: IT0003110860ITA      <=== required
>         date: ** missing **        <=== required
>     currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>         last: 3.75                 <=\
>          nav:                      <=== one of these
>        price:                      <=/
>     timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
>   ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
>> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:54:31 -0500
>> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: Problems getting quotes for funds
>> To: Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>
>> If you can find the folder containing the finance-quote modules, you
>> could apply the attached patch, and it should work as long as you
>> don't have any quote retrievals pointed at Yahoo USA (Yahoo Asia and
>> Australia might also be a problem -- I haven't tested). On my mac
>> they're in a folder something like:  perl5/5.8.8/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/
>> Base.pm and Europe.pm. There are only 3 changes, so you could hand
>> edit pretty easily too. Then use the isin+country code for the ticker.
>>
>> dbr$ gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe IT0003110860ITA
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>      symbol: IT0003110860ITA      <=== required
>>        date: 02/12/2008           <=== required
>>    currency: EUR                  <=== required
>>        last: 3.74                 <=\
>>         nav:                      <=== one of these
>>       price: 3.74                 <=/
>>    timezone:                      <=== optional
>>
>>
>> Dave
> 
> 


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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net