Fwd: Troubles with price retrieval

[Doug Brown]

I still haven't solved my problem.

I have upgraded to fq 1.1.17 via gnc-fq-update, and no change.

Can someone confirm that if gnc-fq-dump works correctly (which it does - see
below) then my fq is installed OK, and the problem is with my GC binaries? I
think this started when I upgraded GC from 2.2.7 to 2.2.9.

Thanks,

d.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Doug Brown <toquehead at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Troubles with price retrieval
To: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>


 David Reiser wrote:

On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Doug Brown wrote:



 I am using FQ to get online quotes to Canadian funds and stocks. All
had been well until recently.

Now the first time I click "Get Quotes", I get a message box stating:
"There was a system error while retrieving the price quotes.".

The second time I click "Get Quotes", it goes away and pops up an
empty command window (like it used to, and it takes some time like it
is working), but responds with a message box stating "Unable to
retrieve quotes for these items", and lists _all_ my symbols (fund,
stock, and currency).

I can retrieve the quotes from the command line manually using
gnc-fq-dump, and all seems well.

The GC FAQ suggests loading GC with the -debug parameter. I tried that
and GC did not load. I tried with the --debug parameter and GC loads,
but the results from my price retrieval efforts are unchanged.

I am running GC 2.2.9 on XP SP3.

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Doug.
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 The "Unable to retrieve quotes..." message is much more likely to be
a Finance::Quote issue than a gnucash issue. Which version of FQ are
you using? Which quote source are you setting in gnucash? It is common
for the quote source sites to modify their pages more often than we'd
like. Most of those changes require the finance quote modify its code
to accommodate the change.

Dave


 Thanks Dave.

I am using FQ 1.15 and "stockhousecanada_fund" quote source. I don't think
it is a FQ install issue as I can retrieve quotes from the command line
fine:

C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump stockhousecanada_fund cho300
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: cho300               <=== required
      date: 11/06/2009           <=== required
  currency: CAD                  <=== required
      last: 14.4561              <=\
       nav: 14.4561              <=== one of these
     price: 14.4561              <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin>

d.