Re: Yahoo UK - still problems

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In Reply to: Yahoo UK - still problems posted by Michael Burgess on October 03, 2000 at 15:48:44:

: Mark

: Firstly, thanks for the updated retrieve module. Unfortunately, there still seem to be problem with some shares on Yahoo UK. Having updated all the symbols to include the suffix ".L" there are still a number of shares that won't update. Examples are Border TV - BTV.L, Domino Printing - DNO.L, Haynes Publishing - HYNS.L, and Hunting - HTG.L etc.

: As Yahoo seem to be congenitally unable to resist changing their suffixes every few months I wonder whether it would be possible to amend Fund Manager to make alterations slightly easier. As you can imagine it is extremely tedious to have to go through 200 - 300 symbols updating the suffix to suit Yahoo's latest whim only to find they are then incompatible with other sources of data such as Market Eye.

: One solution that would make things a lot easier would be an option on, say, the Internet Settings dialog to set a global suffix to be used at any given time. To be really useful it would need to work with both the Quote Servers such as Yahoo and any imported data.

: In the meantime I would be grateful if you could have another look at the current module to see if there is any reason why the above shares are unwilling to update.

: Many thanks

: Michael

: Email address omitted to avoid spam.

Hi Michael,
Thanks for the feedback. I agree and understand about having some option
to globally affect the suffix of your symbol. I did take a look at the
first two of your sample symbols that weren't updating for you. They both
updated when I just tried. The BTV.L updated for the 9/14 date, as that
is the date being reported by Yahoo-UK. The DNO.L updated correctly though
with the price for 10/4. Are you still having problems with these? Can you
double check that you don't have a space or something else recorded in the
symbol.

Thanks,
Mark
--
Mark Beiley

Fund Manager for Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT

Replies:

• Re: Yahoo UK - still problems Michael Burgess 15:54:06 10/06/00 (3)
  • Re: Yahoo UK - still problems Mark 10:21:20 10/07/00 (2)
    • Re: Yahoo UK - still problems Michael Burgess 18:10:36 10/07/00 (1)
      • Re: Yahoo UK - still problems Mark 21:53:21 10/07/00 (0)