...and so I need to tweak the updates I made in the Wiki recently. On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 11:03 PM john <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Oct 11, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Am 12.10.22 um 01:34 schrieb R Losey: > >> In GnuCash 4.12 on my Mac, I don't have a "Type" field -- it's called > "Name > >> Space" instead... I thought one needed to put the correct exchange > there, > >> but now I'm not sure. > > > > Before we had used in different GUI elements different names for the > same thing. > > > > And we dropped the US centric and outdated list, which had confused many > users. Similar to the account code you can create your own system to > structure your investments. > > > > The name of the exchange has only to be set inn some cases as F::Q > source. > > The namespace isn't even passed to F::Q. F::Q wouldn't know what to do > with it. F::Q wants a quote source (e.g. yahoo_json, alphavantage, aex, > etc.) and a symbol. If you're using F::Q you need to make sure that the > symbol you set is the one that the quote source you choose understands for > that particular security. > > Namespaces are useful for symbol disambiguation. Although I don't know of > a specific example, it's easily conceivable that the same symbol is used in > different price sources referring to different stocks. The price database > generally uses namespace and symbol for lookups, so putting the two > securities in different namespaces allows the price database to easily find > the right one when creating prices. > > Absent duplication they're useful for you to categorize your holdings. You > can use any arbitrary scheme you like: Exchange, industry, country, holding > category (e.g. speculative, growth, value); however it makes sense to you > to sort your investments. You can also use none at all, in which case > GnuCash will create a Non-Currency category for you. Remember that the > CURRENCY namespace is special, hard-conded, and restricted to currencies > (including obsolete ones) recognized by the ISO-4217 committee. > > When the feature was originally written some 20 or so years ago the author > hard-coded some US stock exchanges--NYSE, NASDEX, AMEX, etc.as examples. > We've found that to confuse a lot of users, making them think that those > were the only choices, or that the categories had to be exchanges, so we > removed them a few releases ago while working on something related. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
