[GNC] Get Online Quotes

[John Ralls]

No, there's no way to do either in the GUI. We've discussed internally adding options to gnucash-cli for doing this sort of troubleshooting.

The best way to troubleshoot individual stocks is from the command line with gnc-fq-helper, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Trouble_Shooting.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 16, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton <ruaraidh.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> (Or maybe a better option would be to be able to get price quotes only for
> selected stocks/funds. Then I could troubleshoot one without turning off
> the others)
> 
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 11:33, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton <
> ruaraidh.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to toggle off and on "Get Online Quotes" for a stock or
>> fund without GnuCash forgetting the associated settings?
>> 
>> To get quotes for a UK fund, I switch on Get Online Quotes, select
>> Multiple sources, scroll down to the bottom of the list of sources, and
>> select "U.K. Funds ...". So far so good. Three mouse clicks and one
>> scroll-down is not bad, if you only do it once for a single fund.
>> 
>> Sometimes I switch it off temporarily, to make it easier to troubleshoot
>> problems getting quotes for other stocks and funds.
>> 
>> The problem is, when the troubleshooting is over and I switch it on again,
>> it comes on with the default settings (Single source Alphavantage), so I
>> have to reselect Multiple / U.K. Funds.
>> 
>> It's not a big problem. It's just tedious when there are a lot of funds to
>> do.  It would be much easier if I could simply toggle on/off without
>> changing settings.
>> 
>> I suppose an alternative could be to leave it on all the time instead of
>> toggling off/on, but then each troubleshooting test would build up another
>> set of unwanted prices in the price database.
>> 
>> I have tried to look for an answer online, but failed, so hope someone can
>> help.
>> 
>> Ruaraidh
>> 
>>> 
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