[GNC] Get Online Quotes

[Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton]

Thanks to John & Fred. Both good answers. :)

Ruaraidh

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, 17:59 John Ralls, <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 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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