[GNC] Automatic Price Updates

[John Ralls]

Did you restart GnuCash?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Nov 27, 2022, at 11:07 AM, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> P.S. I created the file $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash/config-user.scm
> 
> with the contents:
> 
>   (gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
>     (lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
> 
> under my own Ubuntu login, but the price database does not show any new prices when I open GC and let it sit for half an hour.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> On 27.11.22 18:35, rsbrux wrote:
>> Thanks, that sounds very promising! My only problem is that I have a Flatpak installation under Ubuntu.
>> 
>> According to https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME, GNC_DATA_HOME is under $HOME.
>> 
>> However, I have installed GC for all users on the system and want the startup task to run regardless of who is running GC.
>> 
>> If I put config-user.scm in $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash, won't it be user-specific?
>> 
>> On 25.11.22 21:07, john wrote:
>>>> On Nov 25, 2022, at 12:56 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I used to have a chron job set up to automatically fetch security prices on first login each day, but found this inconvenient because it locks the data file, and opening GnuCash is often the first thing I do upon logging in.
>>>> 
>>>> I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an update in the price database window and let it run in the background while I continue to work in the registers.
>>>> 
>>>> Would there be some way to get GC to perform the Price Database automatically when GC is started (interactively), instead of performing the automatic price update in a separate session?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Yes, but only through 4.x because the quotes system won't be accessible from Scheme in GnuCash 5, it having been rewritten in C++.
>>> 
>>> Create if necessary $GNC_DATA_HOME/config-user.scm and edit it to add
>>>   (gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
>>>     (lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
>>>