> On Sep 16, 2015, at 12:01 AM, Chris Good <chris.g...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 12:20:46 -0700 >> From: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> >> To: Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> Subject: Re: Rounding in the price db. >> Message-ID: <4a7c3475-9787-4346-bfd7-f086dcd78...@ceridwen.us> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> > ... >> >> Rounding is now fixed and pushed. >> >> There?s one change I?m holding back on: If I make it so that > Finance::Quote >> can?t overwrite a price added in the Price Editor (i.e. one of source >> user:price-editor) as David Carlson suggested last week, then the ?fetch >> quote? button is broken because price-quotes.scm only knows how to write >> the prices into the pricedb. This is a per-day effect: A user-created > quote >> from a different day won?t block the F::Q quote, so maybe it?s an > acceptable >> corner case that just needs to be mentioned in the docs and the button?s >> tooltip. Ideally the button should disable in this situation, but I?m not > sure >> yet whether that?s feasible. >> >> Comments? >> >> I should add that I want to merge this ASAP so that it will be available > in the >> nightlies for testing before the next release, which is only two weeks > away. >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) >> From: david.carlson....@gmail.com <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> To: jra...@ceridwen.us, geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be >> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> Subject: Re: Rounding in the price db. >> Message-ID: <000f4259.651417a17ddc3...@gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> I could accept your proposal if it is documented. I think a user could > still go >> in later if he didn't like the online price for a certain date. >> Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT&T 4G LTE tablet >> ------------------------------ > > Hi John, > > Sorry for the late reply, needs must... > > I haven't understood all your previous comments about this but thought I'd > weigh in anyway. > Can there only be 1 price record per stock/date? > > I would have thought the primary key should be stock/date/source and that > the advanced portfolio rpt should get actual cost details from the stock > transactions and market price details from price records. If there are > multiple price records of the same stock/date, then the advamced portfolio > rpt should use say using source user:price-editor first, then a price from > FQ, (then others...) > > AFAIK, it is not critical that the market price be accurate as the > costs/values on the stock transactions should be accurate. > That's why I suggested prices from FQ should use the date returned by FQ and > assume that if there is already a price record for the same stock/date from > FQ, then the new price should override the older.
Chris, Please read over the thread again carefully. We’ve already discussed all of that in some detail. In particular, actual cost for reports comes from the transactions, not the price db. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
