No entry in price editor

[John Ralls]

On Oct 17, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Michael P. Reilly wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Bob Plantz <rgplantz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/17/2011 7:24 AM, Michael P. Reilly wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,  I'm running Ubuntuo 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and GnuCash 2.4.7 (build
>>> rb5df19+).
>>> 
>>> I've added some new mutual funds for my sons.  I entered mutual funds with
>>> associated securities.  The accounts page shows $0 sum, so I went to enter
>>> values into Tools>  Price Editor, but I do not see the securities listed.
>>> 
>>> Settings for one security and account are:
>>> Full name: Aggressive Growth Portfolio
>>> Symbol/abbreviation: IOAGA (no symbol, inserted my own)
>>> Type: FUND
>>> ISIN, etc.: {blank}
>>> Fraction traded: 1/10000
>>> Get Online Quotes: unchecked
>>> 
>>> Associated account:
>>> Name: Aggressive Growth Portfolio - A
>>> Code: Track A
>>> Description: {blank}
>>> Security: IOAGA (Aggressive Growth Portfolio)
>>> Smallest fraction: Use Commodity Value
>>> Account Color: Default
>>> Notes: {blank}
>>> Tax related: {greyed out}
>>> Placeholder: {unchecked}
>>> Hidden: {unchecked}
>>> Acct type: Mutual Fund
>>> Parent Acct: ...
>>> 
>>> There are a total of 30 securities which are a FUND type, 34 in total.  In
>>> the price editor there are a total of 28 (all types).  There are four (4)
>>> new securities and two (2) older ones, which are not showing up. The older
>>> are not attached to accounts so I could understand if these were not
>>> showing
>>> up in the price editor.  The new securities are bound to mutual fund
>>> accounts.
>>> 
>>> Is there a bug, misunderstanding of how to bind securities to accounts,
>>> configuration not set?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>>  -Michael
>>> 
>> I had something like this happen with a previous version of Ubuntu/gnucash.
>> When I looked more carefully, I saw that the Price Editor window was too
>> narrow, and the "Security" column did not show. Expanding the size of the
>> window solved my problem. And I had to click on the "+" box to the far left
>> on the "FUND" row.
>> 
>> --Bob
>> 
>> 
> Thanks for the reply, Bob.  It is not that I cannot see the entries in the
> Price Editor.  I can see all six fields and have expanded every security
> type (those listed are FUND, NASDAQ and NYSE, which are consistent with the
> types that I have assigned).
> 
> If I change the above security to say "AMEX", which has no funds in the
> Security Editor (and after the change, has one security), then when I
> (re)open the Price Editor, I still only have "FUND", "NASDAQ" and "NYSE".
> 

A security doesn't show up in the price editor until it has at least one price. If you're not using Finance::Quote to add prices automatically, you'll have to add them yourself. Click the Add button in Price Editor and a little dialog will come up which will allow you to select securities that you've already added via the security editor (either directly or via the little dialog in the Account Editor).

Regards,
John Ralls