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Look up Profile View (search help for alias)
You can define URL-template for viewing on-line (or off-line) company's
profiles. These URL-templates are market-based, which means you can have
different templates for each market. The template is then parsed to make
actual URL to the web page. For example to see Yahoo's profiles page you can
use following URL template: http://biz.yahoo.com/p/{t0}/{t}.html. Symbols
enclosed in brackets {} define fields which are evaluated in execution time.
{t0} symbol is evaluated to the first character of the ticker name and {t}
is evaluated to the whole ticker name. So if AAPL is selected AmiBroker will
generate following URL from above template:
http://biz.yahoo.com/p/a/aapl.html
Then AmiBroker uses built-in web browser to display the contents of the
page.
Note that it is also possible to browse local files using this mechanism.
Simply use following template URL (example, C: denotes drive):
file://C:\the_folder_with_profile_files\{t}.html. You are not limited to
HTML files, you can use simple TXT files instead.
Special fields encoding scheme
As shown in above example template URL can contain special fields which are
substituted at run time by values corresponding to the currently selected
symbol. The format of the special field is {x} where x is describes field
type. Currently there are three allowable field types: ticker symbol in
original case{t}, ticker symbol in lowercase {s}, ticker symbol in UPPERCASE
{S}, alias {a}, web id {i}. You can specify those fields anywhere within the
URL and AmiBroker will replace them with appropriate values entered in the
Information window.
You can also reference to single characters of ticker, alias or web id. This
is useful when given web site uses first characters of, for example, ticker
to group the html files (Yahoo Finance site does that), so you have files
for tickers beginning with 'a' stored in subdirectory 'a'. To reference to
single character of the field use second format style {xn} where x is field
type described above and n is zero-based index of the character. So {a0}
will evaluate to the first character of the alias string. To get first two
characters of a ticker write simply {t0}{t1}.
Note about web id field: this new field in Information window was added to
handle situations when web sites do not use ticker names for storing profile
files. I found some sites that use their own numbering system so they assign
unique number to each symbol. AmiBroker allows you to use this nonstandard
coding for viewing profiles. All you have to do is to enter correct IDs in
Web ID field and use appropriate template URL with {i} keyword.
Cheers,
Graham
http://e-wire.net.au/~eb_kavan/
-----Original Message-----
From: hobitt_de [mailto:hobitt_de@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:50 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amibroker] information window
hi,
is there anybody who can explain the use of the fields "Alias"
and"WEB-ID" in the information window.
Best regards
Klaus Hoffmann
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