[GNC] Mutual Fund - Price Import from csv, "Namespace could not be understood"

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Aug 7 17:24:25 EDT 2021



> On Aug 7, 2021, at 1:35 PM, Ashok Sinha <ashok.sinha at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, trying this list for the first time, I hope I am following
> the instructions.
> 
> I have downloaded and prepared an import.csv file with 2 lines as:
> 05/08/21, INDIAMUTUAL,INF209KA12Z1, INR,143.021
> 05/08/21, INDIAMUTUAL,INF209K01546, INR,27.1064
> 
> Where the columns are Date, Namespace, From Symbol, To Currency, Amount
> 
> The 'Namespace', & 'Currency To' dropdown comes up with an error
> respectively as:
> Error 1: Column 'From Namespace' could not be understood. Value can't be
> parsed into a valid namespace.
> Error 2: Column 'Currency To' could not be understood. Value can't be
> parsed into a valide commodity.
> 
> Could somebody please explain to me how to import the prices? I think I'm
> doing it right - there's a screenshot below.
> 
> The above example has 2 different mutual funds. Once the concept is proved,
> I plan to update many (~20) mutual fund prices from a single import csv
> file on a weekly basis.

Try removing the leading spaces from the namespace and currency columns.

Regards,
John Ralls



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