Fw: Re: Finance::Quote ??

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi,

Am Saturday 24 January 2009 22:27:06 schrieb Georg Stapper:
:
> The base currency is EUR.
>
> If I choose EUR as the report currency, then 2 exchange rates (EUR/GBP and
> EUR/ZAR) are sufficient to produce the correct results (see attached pdf).
> However, if I choose ZAR as the report currency I need also the the ZAR/EUR
> exchange rate otherwise the income and expenses in EUR are not calculated.

I /believe/ now to understand your problem and assume you are hit by 
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568945> as entioned by  
Mike Alexander in the FX Rates thread 
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2009-January/028315.html. 

> Hence it makes a lot of sense, if "Get Quotes" actually pulls all the
> different exchange rates necessary for the report.
>
> For all three currencies the "Get Online Quote" flag is set.

No, against which currency should a base currency be quoted?
From a mathematical POV there is only the need, to have the rate of your 
foreign commodities in your base currency, The other direction should be 
calculated: first map them all from foreign to base currency and from there 
to report currency. unless there were this bug.

Frank