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The PSS alert options are excellent!!

I was able to setup email, highlights, etc.. not a problem. I was also able to setup an alert to trigger ("Run Program") a simple VBS file (which pops up a simple msgbox), which works great. Pop-ups in my environment are critical....

What I would like to do is to have a pop-up and pass it some column info (i.e. "symbol", "price", etc...) very similar to what is offered when you set up an email alert (which is very cool!!!). Any recommendations on how to do this? If I need to use particular code or scripting functions - please let me know....

Should I be using the "Run Script Function" option? If so, can you assist on this code?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam

You may be able to do it with the external VBS. The first and only argument that is passed to the program is the ticker symbol, so you can connect to the PSS scripting object model from your script and query whatever other values you need for the alert.

You also could do it using the Run Script Function action in this case, since it gets a reference to the ticker symbol object, but you would have to package your script function as an extension that would get loaded on program startup, so the function is always available. I would have to come up with some sample code for that, maybe sometime next week if I have time.

Anatoly and others,
Thanks for responding. Quick question, due to my lack of coding....

I have a straightforward popup vbs file (called: popup.vbs). In the vbs file it has the following code:

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Text = "% Change Alert"
Timeout = "15" 'in seconds
Title = "ALERT"

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Popup Text, TimeOut, Title

Set WshShell = Nothing
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I setup some alerts selecting the "Run Program" option and pointed them to this file. It works great. After reading your respond above, it appears that PSS passes the symbol info to my vbs file. Correct? If so, how is it passed (by what function) and how should I reference that function in my vbs file in order to pull in the symbol info. Because ideally I would like to insert the symbol info in the Text field above and have the popup box show "% Change Alert for [SYMBOL]".

Any coding help from anyone would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam

The ticker will be WScript.Arguments(0), so something like this should work:

Text = "% Change Alert for " + WScript.Arguments(0)