Re: [GNC] Yahoo json unauthorized

2024-03-06 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
test. If not > then time to update it, to keep up with Yahoo constantly moving the goal > post. > > > -Original Message- > From: Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2024 3:33 AM > To: Gnucash Users > Subject: Re: [GNC] Yahoo json unauthorized

Re: [GNC] Yahoo json unauthorized

2024-03-06 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
(Correction. It seems to work for most but not all funds; and has failed for all LSE securities) On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 08:25, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < ruaraidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently had to change to "Yahoo as JSON" quotes when > Alphavantage chan

[GNC] Yahoo json unauthorized

2024-03-06 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
I recently had to change to "Yahoo as JSON" quotes when Alphavantage changed their access rules, and for a while it worked no problem. Today it doesn't. For each security I get an error message of the form " ... Attempt to fetch the URL

Re: [GNC] GnuCash 5.3 autofill headaches

2023-11-23 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
I'm on Win 11 Gnucash 5.3 and I do have the same problem. An actual example: I wanted to change an existing transaction description from "Vodafone bill" to "Outstanding Vodafone bill". I put the cursor at the start of the old text and typed "Outstanding ". The description (still in edit mode,

Re: [GNC] Gnucash 5.4 process stays running after closing Gnucash

2023-11-12 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Thanks, David. Greatly appreciated. Ruaraidh On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 19:26, sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > That's a known bug that's been fixed. The fix will appear in the next > release. > > David T. > On Nov 11, 2023, at 9:29 PM, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton <%3Ca>@gm

[GNC] Gnucash 5.4 process stays running after closing Gnucash

2023-11-11 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
I've just upgraded from 4.14 to 5.4 on Windows 11 and have noticed that the latest log file now remains open and locked even after closing the Gnucash window (the file lock stops my OneDrive from synchronizing, which stops a normal windows shutdown). Only the log file is locked: the gnucash

Re: [GNC] Norton Utilities prevent FQ installation

2023-04-03 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
elper. And the Security Editor no longer warns me that finance::quote is not installed. Looking good! On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 19:59, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < ruaraidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Norton Utilities came with my new Windows 11 computer. GnuCash 4.13 is > working great and I

[GNC] Norton Utilities prevent FQ installation

2023-04-02 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Norton Utilities came with my new Windows 11 computer. GnuCash 4.13 is working great and I've migrated my data from the old computer, but there's one problem: the script supplied to install finance::quote has failed with error message "failed to download perl install file". At the same time,

Re: [GNC] Online quotes for a mutual fund

2022-08-24 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Finding the right source and symbol seems a challenge! For several years I've been successfully getting quotes through fq using the single source "Alphavantage, US" for single UK equities, and the multiple-source "U.K. funds" for UK funds. However, I can't find anything that works for UK Treasury

Re: [GNC] Get Online Quotes

2020-07-16 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
shoot individual stocks is from the command line > with gnc-fq-helper, see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Trouble_Shooting. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Jul 16, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < > ruaraidh...@gmail.com> wrote: &

Re: [GNC] Get Online Quotes

2020-07-16 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
(Or maybe a better option would be to be able to get price quotes only for selected stocks/funds. Then I could troubleshoot one without turning off the others) On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 11:33, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < ruaraidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to toggle off an

[GNC] Get Online Quotes

2020-07-16 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Is there a way to toggle off and on "Get Online Quotes" for a stock or fund without GnuCash forgetting the associated settings? To get quotes for a UK fund, I switch on Get Online Quotes, select Multiple sources, scroll down to the bottom of the list of sources, and select "U.K. Funds ...". So

Re: [GNC] Stock quotes for BT.A

2020-06-06 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Perfect! Many thanks Maf. and Frank, that worked :-) On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 14:44, Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am 06.06.20 um 13:46 schrieb Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton: > > Does anyone know how to get price quotes for LSE:B

[GNC] Stock quotes for BT.A

2020-06-06 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Does anyone know how to get price quotes for LSE:BT.A from Alphavantage? Or from any other source? Following other advice on this forum, I've successfully retrieved price quotes from Alphavantage for other LSE stocks by concatenating the LSE ticker code with ".L" and setting that as the value of

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-05-03 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
all your reportable expenses while you are building up your SIPP; and (3) GnuCash tax reports won't be able to show all your taxable income when you withdraw funds from the SIPP. Hope this is of interest to some. Ruaraidh On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 12:53, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < ruaraidh...@g

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-05-01 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
ation, or (my preference) trust the SIPP statements > instead. > > Annually you'd print a Transaction Report from SIPP account. Or you can > run a cash flow report, originating from SIPP account and children. > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 10:26, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < >

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-05-01 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
of learning GnuCash. On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 10:41, Christopher Lam wrote: > I wouldn't classify sipp contributions as expense. You'd be incorrectly > reducing your net worth whenever you contribute to it. > > On Fri, 1 May 2020, 5:23 pm Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton, < > ruaraidh..

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-05-01 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
om income into the SIPP. It can just as easily go from an asset > to another asset. > > > Original Message ---- > From: Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton > Sent: Thu Apr 30 19:42:46 GMT+05:30 2020 > To: "D." > Cc: "D. via gnucash-user" > Subject: Re

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-04-30 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
! On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 15:28, Christopher Lam wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 14:15, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton < > ruaraidh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In my reply I replaced your "Income:Me" with "Assets:my bank account". The >> point is that, w

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-04-30 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
econd never happens without the first). > > Or am I missing something? > > David > > > Original Message > From: Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton > Sent: Thu Apr 30 17:20:34 GMT+05:30 2020 > To: "D." > Cc: Gnucash Users > Subject: Re:

Re: [GNC] Reporting combinations of accounts

2020-04-30 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Yes, thanks, that's what I already have On Thu, 30 Apr 2020, 12:43 Fred Bone, wrote: > On 29 April 2020 at 17:51, Ruaraidh said: > > > I'm in the UK where married couples are taxed separately and have to file > > separately. I'm not a tax expert, but I've just googled it and find > >

Re: [GNC] Reporting transactions

2020-04-30 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
That covers it if the SIPP is in a separate GC file of its own, where my contribution is an income (and an expense from my bank account in the main GC file, which I use to fund the contribution). But if it's all in one GC file we have 01-01-2020 SIPP Contribution Assets:SIPP £100 My

Re: [GNC] Reporting combinations of accounts

2020-04-30 Thread Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton
Thanks Maf, You're right it's not a big deal, there aren't many additional calculations to do, and they're easy calculations. But hey, GC is an accounting system and it can do the sums needed for our tax reports, so I thought the most elegant solution is to have GC do those calculations. If it