European Fund Quotes?

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 16, 2016, at 9:02 AM, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> 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?

Not you, Yahoo!. To test what F::Q returns use gnc-fq-dump, like this:

gnc-fq-dump yahoo 111724.SW
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: 111724.SW            <=== required
      date: ** missing **        <=== required
  currency: CHF                  <=== required
      last: 1959.49              <=\
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price:                      <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional

** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!

Yahoo! isn't providing a date on the quote, so GnuCash can't use it.

Regards,
John Ralls