how to edit exchange rate of the Placeholder account

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jan 5 09:31:21 EST 2010


Do you have any commodities set up for quotes?

-derek

Rafferty Uy <rafferty.uy at gmail.com> writes:

> 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
>
> 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 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.
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>     > >>
>     > >> -derek
>     > >>
>     > >> --
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>     > '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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