I am running GnuCash 2.9.16 (with Finance Quote 1.47) on Ubuntu 16.04.
In the course of some fairly standard (for me) work I have come across a
couple of "funnies" and I'm wondering whether they are deliberate,
"features" (from Microsoft's vocabulary meaning a bug that won't be
fixed), bugs or me doing something wrong.
On the last day of the month I need to revalue my share portfolio. Like
others, I have been a victim of Alphvantage's throttling of their
service but unlike others I have not (yet) screwed up my courage and
updated the the related file to incorporate the delays suggested.
I open the Securities Editor, make sure that the Get Quote column is
shown (and, for simplicity at this stage, I'll assume no securities are
ticked) and then, by double clicking on a security I get to the Security
Information window and select Get Online Quotes, click Unknown and
select Alphavantage from the drop down. I do this for five securities
(no point in doing it for more because of the Alphavantage limitation).
In the Price Editor I click Get Quotes and, after a wait, I get the
prices for the five securities I selected.
Having got those five prices I need to select a second batch of
securities. But (*first funny*) I cannot deselect the previously
selected securities by clicking on the tick - I have to go back to the
Security Information to do that. Is that intended?
Having deselected the Get Quote for a security, I have noted that if, in
the same session of working with GnuCash, I return to the same security
the Get Online Quotes option is not selected but the associated options
are still intact. However (*second funny*), if I exit GnuCash (after
saving of course) and then restart it and re-enter the Security Editor
only those securities that were left ticked as Get Quotes retain the
option information, all others are reset to the defaults.
These two funnies make getting security prices (using this method)
somewhat tedious and may mean that I have to really screw up my courage
and make the changes to the file.
Anticipating that one day I will screw up enough courage I have been
investigating the file Alphavantage.pm. On my system I have five of
them; in the directory ~/.cpan/build I have five directories three of
the form
Finance-Quote-1.44-0 (they are 1.44-0, 1.45-0 and 1.47-0)
and two of the form
Finance-Quote-1.47-iGUjLI (both are for 1.47 but with different
tails, one of them has a closed padlock superimposed on the folder icon)
Is this a *third funny*? Do I need all of them? If not, how do I
determine which one I do need?
The *fourth **(or is it only the third?) **funny* I've noticed is that
if I rename a data file the Get Quote column is no longer visible in the
Security Editor window. It's easy to get back so this funny is trivial
but, out of interest, as the data file has not changed, why does it happen?
Best wishes
Eric
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