gnucash and finance::quote

[David Reiser]

Two problems: Ticker symbols are case sensitive, so amzn should be AMZN and crefstok should be CREFstok
  and the tiaacref module in the last released version of finance-quote is out of date. TIAA changed their database access details. There's a set of fixes described at 
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=62104

Unfortunately, you're going to have to be willing to patch your own finance-quote in order to get TIAA-CREF quotes working.

Dave
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On Feb 3, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Sanford Braver wrote:

> 
> Hello All,
> 
> 
> I just downloaded Gnucash 2.4.9 for the express purpose of daily
> monitoring of my tiia-cref portfolio. Gnucash with the finance::quote
> module, I learned, was perhaps the only software by which that could be
> easily accomplished. However, after quite a bit of exploration on my
> own, getting online quotes (for any stock, which Gnucash documentation
> sometimes confusingly calls either a "security" or a "commodity") is
> still not working. 
> 
> 
> I run Windows7. I installed the perl module, I think correctly. What I
> should do next, according to the manual 
> http://gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-help.pdf , under "Steps to enable
> On-line price updating" , is that the "GnuCash home page comes with a
> small helper program to install Finance::Quote for you. You can find it
> in the Start Menu under the GnuCash group and is (sic) called "Install
> Online Price Retrieval".  
> 
> 
> After experiencing a great deal of frustration and confusion about this
> instruction and how to perform this process, I located this (slightly
> edited) exchange on 
> 
> 
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2011-August/040661.html
> 
> On my hard drive I located C:\Program Files > gnucash> bin> 
> and found 'install-fq-mods.cmd'  which is a windows command script.  I'm
> assuming this is it.  Can I just click on it from there?  
> 
> Yes
> 
> This seems to have worked for me; a command window opened and a lot of
> installation seems to have taken place. And when I try clicking it
> again, here's what the window looks like, saying the "installation
> succeeded":
> 
> (Perhaps the wiki and manual can be changed if this is now the correct
> method.)
> 
> So since finance::quote apparently is installed, I should be able to get
> online quotes on command, right? I think I followed the instructions on
> p. 43-45 and 68-70 carefully. 
> Here is my Securities Editor Screen, after entering a few stocks
> 
> Here is my Price Editor screen
> 
> But, after clicking Get Quotes, here's the message I get.
> 
> 
> The manual on page  44 seems to invite my query here, so I am hoping
> someone will assist. Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> Sanford L. Braver , Ph.D. 
> (Sandy) 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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