interesting issue with online stock price update

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Sonntag, 16. Februar 2025 00:05:22 CET Jack Ostroff via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> For the past few weeks/months I've pretty much given up on trying to  
> retrieve online stock prices.  This week, I finally updated my sources,  
> and most of my stocks retrieved the latest price just fine.  However,  
> many mutual funds did not, failing with "Unable to find 'timestamp'  
> from date pattern 'chart:result:timestamp' in quote data."  In trying  
> to trace down the actual problem, I saw there were two timestamps in  
> the created URL, and they decoded to the start of today, and the  
> current time.  If there is no price for that fund for today, I can see  
> this failure.  I did finally manage to try to retrieve prices for  
> yesterday through today, and it worked, but only getting a price for  
> yesterday.
> 
> So - I wonder if the first retrieval fails, and today is on a weekend  
> or holiday, would it be reasonable to try to retrieve the price for  
> yesterday or the previous day?  Is there any other way to address this?
> 
> Separately, it seems there are lots of different places to get a  
> listing of securities, but not all are sortable, and only from some can  
> you request an online price update, and from only one of those can you  
> actually specify a range of dates.  Am I best off just filing a wish  
> list for addressing some of these issues?

I think that I covered most of that during the last couple of days.

> For one example, in the Tools/Prices dialog, you can click on either  
> the Commodity or Stock Name column head to sort on that column, and  
> click again to sort decreasing.  However, from the Equities Tab of the  
> Investments View, if you right click and select "Update Stock and  
> CUrrency Prices..." clicking on the header has no effect at all, and in  
> the Securities Tab, that option is not available.
> 
> Also, on the price update dialog, there is no search function, so  
> finding a single stock is mildly annoying if you CAN sort the columns,  
> but extremely annoying if you can nether sort nor filter.
> 
> Thanks for suggestions on where to best address this.

As mentioned: this should now be available. The filter opens with the
usual Ctrl+F sequence when in the dialog.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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