Getting currency price IDR on Win XPSP2 GnuCash 2.2.7

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi Nate,

sorry for the late answer.
Am Sonntag 2. November 2008 12:08:44 schrieb Nate Jones:
> Hi gnucash team,
>
> I work in three currencies: Baht, Rupiah and Dollar. 

Which of them is your base currency?

> I have configured 
> gnucash with finance-quote 1.15 and I can successfully get stock quotes
> and baht-dollar exchange rates. The first time I configured
> finance-quote (using 1.14) I was able to get IDR-USD exchange rates. But
> since then I get an error "unable to retrieve quotes" for the IDR rate.
> I had this error with 1.14 and now also with 1.15.

Which sources are you asking? I remember a format change on yahoo europe, 
which made the related module unusable a while ago.

> The last time I was able to retrieve an IDR quote was 10/26/08. BHT
> quotes and a variety of stocks are all working fine. I ran the install
> online price retrieval option again and the results are attached. It
> looks like Finance-Quote itself works fine.

> Why can't I retrieve IDR rates? Do I need to change settings in gnucash?
> The currency retrieval dialog is very simple and I configured both BHT
> and IDR exactly the same way, so I don't think there's a configuration
> problem.
>
> Any ideas?

Are there enough fractional digits defined, as you can ask 
> gnc-fq-dump yahoo IDRUSD=X
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: IDRUSD=X             <=== required
      date: 01/27/2009           <=== required
  currency: IDR                  <=== required
      last: 0.0001               <=\
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price: 0.0001               <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional
or
> gnc-fq-dump yahoo USDIDR=X
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: USDIDR=X             <=== required
      date: 01/27/2009           <=== required
  currency: IDR                  <=== required
      last: 11250.00             <=\
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price: 11250.00             <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

That's my result with FQ 1.15.
I assume on windos you must enter "perl gnc-fq-dump ..."

Some additinal ideas could also be hidden in
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows and
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ .

> Nate

Frank