European Fund Quotes?

[Wm]

On 16/01/2016 17:02, rsbrux wrote:
> I have  GC v2.6.1 with F::Q v1.38 running under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and have no
> trouble retrieving European stock prices from Yahoo Europe.
> 
> I have found 3 European funds on Yahoo, but if I put the symbols I find on
> Yahoo into the "Symbol/abbreviation" field of the GC Securities Editor
> (where I put the stock symbols), the Price Editor says "Unable to retrieve
> quotes for these items..."  I have tried both Yahoo Europe and Yahoo USA in
> F::Q, but no joy.  Here are the symbols I found on http://finance.yahoo.com:
> 111724.SW
> 2279000.SW
> 2271182.SW
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 

I think this is what you are after.  Please double check the ISINs

In general try another code and another source.  sixfunds and ftfunds
are both on the "unknown" drop down

>perl gnc-fq-dump sixfunds CH0001117248
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: CH0001117248         <=== required
      date: 02/08/2016           <=== required
  currency: CHF                  <=== required
      last: 2009.00              <=\
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price:                      <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

>perl gnc-fq-dump ftfunds LU0229773345
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: LU0229773345         <=== required
      date: 02/05/2016           <=== required
  currency: EUR                  <=== required
      last: 143.92               <=\
       nav: 143.92               <=== one of these
     price: 143.92               <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

>perl gnc-fq-dump ftfunds LU0230112558
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: LU0230112558         <=== required
      date: 02/05/2016           <=== required
  currency: EUR                  <=== required
      last: 129.41               <=\
       nav: 129.41               <=== one of these
     price: 129.41               <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

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Wm