Norman,

Glad to help. In the future, be sure to “Reply All” so that your message gets 
back to the list. That way, everyone gets to hear the denouement.

David

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Norman Jessup <njes...@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Thanks David,
> 
> This is very helpful
> 
> regards,
> 
> Norman Jessup
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16/1/19 10:24 pm, David T. wrote:
>> Norman,
>> 
>> While the “FinanceQuote Update” module might not have been changed since 
>> 2010, *Finance Quote* (which actually performs quote retrieval for GnuCash) 
>> most certainly has been updated numerous times since then. If you *run* 
>> “FinanceQuote Update,” it will … update Finance Quote for you. The most 
>> recent version of Finance::Quote is 1.47, and is dated November 12, 2017.
>> 
>> Please note that there has been a huge amount of discussion about F::Q over 
>> the last year and a half (which is probably what underlies your note about 
>> it stopping working); to keep the story short, Yahoo! decided to stop 
>> providing price quotes. From the resulting hullaballoo, F::Q changed primary 
>> quote providers, either to AlphaVantage or to Yahoo! Json. You will need to 
>> reset your commodities each to use a currently-valid source. Much of this is 
>> explained on the wiki at 
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F 
>> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F> 
>> Note Paragraph 3.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David T.
>> 
>>> On Jan 16, 2019, at 9:10 AM, normanj <njes...@tpg.com.au 
>>> <mailto:njes...@tpg.com.au>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A year or two (or three) ago the share price tool stopped working for
>>> Australian shares.   I saw some forum posts suggesting that source of
>>> Australian quotes was no longer available and needed to be changed.
>>> 
>>> While there have been several new version of GnuCash released since then,
>>> the FinanceQuote Update module does not appear to have changed since 2010.
>>> 
>>> I've tried without success to modify the tool myself.  Is anyone able to
>>> point me towards detailed instructions about what I need to do to fix this? 
>>> or possibly where I can download a more up-to-date version of the tool?
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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