No entry in price editor

[Michael P. Reilly]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
Thank you, John.  That was the solution.

  -Michael
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