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I thought PPS stored intra day data for the curren portf list so that the tick data could be acessed or reviewed? Instructions in the History Data Preference Help refers to files/folders where these inrsday updates are to be saved to yet they are not there. Just the folder and they are empty. It also refers to the preference window for quote updates and that the folder location can be selected once the quote updates are enabled. Well my Qoute update window does not show these options thoght it is enabled.

davem

That used to be the case; I guess the help files never got updated. It looks like the technology got ahead of the documentation.

These days the data is stored in a single history_data.db file and uses a sqlite database instead of individual text files, which is much faster for the most frequently used operations. You can still access the data using our scripting interface, or you can use the SQLite library to access the data (sqlite.org).
      
Anatoly Ivasyuk
DTLink Software

ok, thanks. Just need a little help with how to use "your script interface". What do i need to do or how do i get the interface?

thx
dave
      

Check out the Developers section on this site. There is lots of information and sample code for how to do the scripting, but if you have never done any programming it may seem overwhelming. We put a link to Microsoft's VBScript and JScript tutorials on the Resources page, or you may need to find someone with scripting experience to write this for you.
      
Anatoly Ivasyuk
DTLink Software

Thanks Anatoly.

I am not very experienced in scripts though work with VB and write macros, etc. My need for accessing the history is that I currently use Excel through DDE link and use macros to copy and paste streamed data at particular time intervals. This as you can imagine is a very poor way of doing things but it works and is limited. I then take the data and create point and figure charts in real time through a program i wrote in VB.

Here's my question....without having to go learn the script necessary is there any place i can get a script that will access the historical intraday data that i can use? I only need price/volume/time update, that's about it. I'd like to be able to pick the sysbols and then have it feed data right into my pnf program or at a minimum into a txt or similar file that i can then read near realtime.

I find your product good but without acess to the historical data for a day/week or so I'm kind of at a stopping point here and hate to look else where for a data/application provider.

Thanks
Dave
      

If you write in VB, you can access the PSM object model directly as a COM object. Just import the type library from PSSScript.dll in your VB project, then do a

Set PSSObject = GetObject("", "PSSScript.PSSScriptModule")
Set Application = PSSObject.Application

Then you can get the historical data by enumerating the tickers in the document, and the historical data in the tickers.
      
Anatoly Ivasyuk
DTLink Software

Well Antoly is said I write in VB but i didn't say how well...LOL I stay in the shallow end, basic forms, commands, loops, functions, etc.

I am weak on code when it requires interacting with other apps like this but will try to work through this. If you know of anyone that would be willing to help me on this a little at a time I'd appreciate you passing on my email address to them which you have on file or I can send to you off line.

First question...how do i get the DLL you refer to for importing?

Dave
 
      

The DLL is installed as part of Personal Stock Streamer, in the plugins folder. The type library is inside, VB knows how to read it.
      
Anatoly Ivasyuk
DTLink Software

This is really a developer topic. Let's move this discussion over to:

http://personalstockstreamer.com/developers/forum.html?...

We should discuss this in the developer forums instead of offline so that others might benefit from the answers.
 
      
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By the way, if you haven't yet, download the beta and sign up for a CollabInvest account so we can chat live in the developers chat room.
      
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Thanks Yermo, i downloaded and ran the beta version though i see you have to have an account with Prohpet.net to use collabinvest and i am using money.net.

I tried entering chat and nothing happens...i assume because my quote service is moneynet and not prophet?

dave
      

Actually we removed that requirement some time ago, although we did remove support for money.net some time ago and have no plans to add them back in.

Regardless you can go to the CollabInvest menu select login and click the register link from the login screen. If that doesn't work let me know here and I'll fix it.
 
      
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I select the collabinvest option in the menu bar> select login/logout >> a window pops upp say what i mention in my prev post. I close post and i'm back at my pss portfolio view where i started. I have a windo openn on right showing blank contact list and i select the login link and get the same message.

Maybe i'm missiing something but i'm not that slow at this stuff.

dave
      

You're running the current version 8.0.5 right?

So when you click on collabinvest->Login you don't get the login screen, you get an error about prophet.net?
 
      
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pss currently running. v8.0.5 build 304, server par..2.6.7 s/n 59313. select collabInvest menu option....window opens msg reads "collaborative investing can only be activated when logged into a quote service. Please log into your quote service". "close window" hot link. close window and pss view back on top?

I'm logged into Money.net stream during this and streamer is running. I select prophet.net and it asks me to login to thier data service though i'm not able as i'm not thier subscriber.

dave