> On Mar 5, 2019, at 9:36 AM, Eric Coates <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
You might try using yahoo-json instead of Alphavantage. It's not throttled.
First funny: Yes, it's intentional. The check box in the Securities dialog box
is display-only.
Second funny: That's an artifact of the difference between the in-memory state
of the Security object and its representation on disk; if "get quotes" is off
then the quotes element isn't written out.
Third funny: I haven't seen that before. I've only seen the ones with the tail
(which I think is randomly generated at build time). I imagine that the lock is
because the directory belongs to another user. You can run ls -l on it in a
terminal to see. Once F::Q is installed you don't need any of them.
Fourth funny: That's because the window state of all windows lives in a file
named after the data file. When you rename the file outside of GnuCash the
correspondence is lost.
Regards,
John Ralls
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