how to edit exchange rate of the Placeholder account

Rafferty Uy rafferty.uy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 23:35:51 EST 2010


Thanks! I now have it installed.
Any link I can go to for a tutorial on how to use this? For some reason, the
Get Quotes button in the price editor is always disabled still.


Rafferty

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and learning from failure.
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Check out:
>
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Finance::Quote
>
> It tells you that under Windows, you use the start menu item "Install
> Online Price Retrieval" to install F::Q
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> --- On Mon, 1/4/10, Rafferty Uy <rafferty.uy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Rafferty Uy <rafferty.uy at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: how to edit exchange rate of the Placeholder account
> > To: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at mit.edu>
> > Cc: "GnuCash User Mailing List" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 6:40 PM
> > Hi Derek,
> >
> > I'm trying to follow the instructions in:
> >
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-guide/invest-stockprice1.html#invest-stockprice-auto2
> >
> > Was I right to download and install Active Perl first? Then
> > attempted to
> > install the gnc-fq-update by typing "perl gnc-fq-update" on
> > the command
> > line.
> >
> > I am getting a lot of errors after running this. The last
> > part of the
> > installation shows me the error below:
> >
> >
> >
> > The required 'nmake' executable not found, fetching it...
> > Fetching 'Nmake15.exe' from download.microsoft.com...
> > done!
> > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > Warning: prerequisite HTML::TableExtract 0 not found.
> > Writing Makefile for Finance::Quote
> > ---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
> > ----
> >    ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> >   ----
> >     HTML::TableExtract [requires]
> > Running make test
> >   Delayed until after prerequisites
> > Running make install
> >   Delayed until after prerequisites
> > Running install for module 'HTML::TableExtract'
> > Running make for M/MS/MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-2.10.tar.gz
> >   Has already been unwrapped into directory
> > C:\Perl\cpan\build\HTML-TableExtract
> > -2.10-gGUOpE
> > Could not make: Unknown error
> > Running make test
> >   Can't test without successful make
> > Running make install
> >   Make had returned bad status, install seems
> > impossible
> > Running make for E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> >   Has already been unwrapped into directory
> > C:\Perl\cpan\build\Finance-Quote-1.1
> > 7-ISjTQn
> >
> >   CPAN.pm: Going to build
> > E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> >
> > Warning: Prerequisite 'HTML::TableExtract => 0' for
> > 'E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-
> > 1.17.tar.gz' failed when processing
> > 'M/MS/MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-2.10.tar.gz' w
> > ith 'make => NO'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are
> > limited.
> > 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external
> > command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >   ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.17.tar.gz
> >   nmake -- NOT OK
> > Running make test
> >   Can't test without successful make
> > Running make install
> >   Make had returned bad status, install seems
> > impossible
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Rafferty
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Rafferty Uy <rafferty.uy at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I see, where can I get F::Q?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Rafferty D. Uy
> > > NUS MBA Candidate
> > > Software Development Lead
> > >
> > >
> > > There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
> > preparation, hard
> > > work, and learning from failure.
> > > ~ Colin Powell
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Rafferty Uy <rafferty.uy at gmail.com>
> > writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > I have a SGD placeolder Asset account with
> > sub accounts of different
> > >> > currencies.
> > >> > I realized that the exchange rates of these
> > sub accounts to SGD are
> > >> messed
> > >> > up so my total exchange rate is not as I want
> > it to be.
> > >> >
> > >> > Would anyone know how to fix the exchange
> > rates?
> > >>
> > >> If you have F::Q installed you can just Get Quotes
> > and it should pull it
> > >> in for you.  Otherwise, you can manually
> > enter the exchange rate in the
> > >> price editor.
> > >>
> > >> Note that exchange rates are assigned to
> > transactions, not accounts.
> > >>
> > >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your
> > replies.
> > >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or
> > Reply-All.
> > >>
> > >> -derek
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>       Derek Atkins, SB
> > '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> > >>       Member, MIT Student
> > Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> > >>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/
> > PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
> > >>       warlord at MIT.EDU
> >
> >       PGP key available
> > >>
> > >
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