[GNC] Account Hirarchy with different currencies cause online quotes to fail in some cases

[Ove Grunnér]

No Problem, John, thanks for helping,

Anyone else got this working somehow?

br Ove.



On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 21:55, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 6, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Ove <write2ove at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks very much for that John.
> >
> > I did as you suggested, and it fixed the original problem but exposed a
> > different one.
> >
> > I get two currency quotes, EUR/SEK & EUR/USD from the online quote
> function.
> >
> > However since there is no SEK/USD quote , the total of my SEK Asset does
> not
> > include the USD ammounts, e.g.
> >
> > Assets:                €xxx (Correct, equivalent of Kr70 + $12 + €1 in
> Euro)
> >   Brokerage:                  Kr70  (missing the USD amount)
> >        USD Assets:                  $12
> >           USD Cash                         $4
> >           USD Stocks:                      $8
> >              AMZN                                     1 Amazon
> >        SEK Assets:                         Kr70
> >           SEK Cash                                kr40
> >           SEK Stocks:                            Kr20
> >              AZN.STO                                  1 AstraZeneca
> >           SEK Mutual Funds:                  kr10
> >              Handelsbanken Multiasset 50     1 Handelsbanken
> >   Bank Account (EUR) €1.
> >
> > In order to try to reset it:
> > I Deleted all currency quotes,
> > I un-ticked currency quotes in the Security Editor, and then re-Ticked
> them
> > I have tried only having USD & SEK ticked, and I have tried having USD &
> SEK
> > & EUR ticked.
> > however I only receive the online quotes for EUR/USD & EUR/SEK.
> > If I insert a manual quote for USD/SEK it will add up correctly.
> >
> > Is there a way to get Triangle quotes like this via online quotes, or is
> > there another way to achieve what I want to do.
> >
> > Possibly also worth mentioning, when I get the two quotes for EUR/USD &
> > EUR/SEK the window in Price Database looks like this:
> > +Currency
> >    EUR(Euro)
> > where + denotes the drop down triangle
> > Note that there is no triangle to expand to look at what is under the EUR
> > quote.
> >
> > Rather than what I would have expected:
> > +Currency
> >    +SEK (Swedish Krona)
> >           SEK (Swedish Krona)        EUR (Euro)      06/08/19
> > Finance::Quote     Last      0.093101
> >    +USD (US Dollar)
> >           USD (US Dollar)               EUR (Euro)      06/08/19
> > Finance::Quote     Last      0.892777
> >
> >
> > when I look at the gnucash XML, it looks like this:
> >
> > <gnc:commodity version="2.0.0">
> >  <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >  <cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
> >  <cmdty:slots>
> >    <slot>
> >      <slot:key>auto_quote_control</slot:key>
> >      <slot:value type="string">false</slot:value>
> >    </slot>
> >  </cmdty:slots>
> > </gnc:commodity>
> > <gnc:commodity version="2.0.0">
> >  <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >  <cmdty:id>SEK</cmdty:id>
> >  <cmdty:get_quotes/>
> >  <cmdty:quote_source>currency</cmdty:quote_source>
> >  <cmdty:quote_tz/>
> > </gnc:commodity>
> > <gnc:commodity version="2.0.0">
> >  <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >  <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
> >  <cmdty:get_quotes/>
> >  <cmdty:quote_source>currency</cmdty:quote_source>
> >  <cmdty:quote_tz/>
> > </gnc:commodity>
> >
> > and the resulting quotes:
> > <gnc:pricedb version="1">
> >  <price>
> >    <price:id type="guid">9724d1f0b2cc4c709cba5026a8a01928</price:id>
> >    <price:commodity>
> >      <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >      <cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
> >    </price:commodity>
> >    <price:currency>
> >      <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >      <cmdty:id>SEK</cmdty:id>
> >    </price:currency>
> >    <price:time>
> >      <ts:date>2019-08-06 18:53:19 +0100</ts:date>
> >    </price:time>
> >    <price:source>Finance::Quote</price:source>
> >    <price:type>last</price:type>
> >    <price:value>10741/1000</price:value>
> >  </price>
> >  <price>
> >    <price:id type="guid">60e4902beaab4a8f8dbf6e5227257336</price:id>
> >    <price:commodity>
> >      <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >      <cmdty:id>EUR</cmdty:id>
> >    </price:commodity>
> >    <price:currency>
> >      <cmdty:space>CURRENCY</cmdty:space>
> >      <cmdty:id>USD</cmdty:id>
> >    </price:currency>
> >    <price:time>
> >      <ts:date>2019-08-06 18:53:19 +0100</ts:date>
> >    </price:time>
> >    <price:source>Finance::Quote</price:source>
> >    <price:type>last</price:type>
> >    <price:value>11201/10000</price:value>
> >  </price>
> >  <price>
> >
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
>
> Sorry, I don't know the answer to that and I haven't found a good answer
> in the relevant code.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>