Finance Quote Error...

[Lincoln A Baxter]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 18:01 +0000, Fred Bone wrote:
> On 21 February 2011 at 11:47, Lincoln A Baxter said:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Using Finance Quote on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (GC 2.2.9) 
> > 
> > When I get Quotes in the price editor the following message pops up:
> > 
> >         Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:
> >           CURRENCY:ADF
> >         Continue
> >         No / Yes
> > 
> > When I say yes, all commodities I have defined, successfully update.  
> > 
> > I suspect something is miss defined some where, but I cannot find it. Any
> > suggestions?  This is very annoying.
> 
> At a rough guess, the message means exactly what it says: the quote 
> source you are using does not supply figures for ADF, so a quote cannot 
> be retrieved.
> 
> This is perhaps because the currency no longer exists, since Andorra 
> joined the Euro on 2000-01-01.
> 
> You could try turning off "Get Online Quotes" for ADF, assuming you can't 
> find an alternative quote source.
> 
For Future Readers: The obvoius follow on question was:  Where does one
do that?  After digging around I found it.  It is in the Security
Editor:

	Tools -> Security Editor
Select the check box for showing currencies.  Find the currency, Select
Edit, unselect "Get Online Quotes".

Lincoln

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