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eventide,itsallaguess,

Many thanks for this.

I have never incorporated a share price scrape into any of my spreadsheets before due to my rather limited excel expertise.

However, I have now added in the add-in (so to speak) and it works a treat.

Excel 2013 running under Windows 10 in case you are interested.

FD

funduffer wrote:eventide,itsallaguess,

Many thanks for this.

I have never incorporated a share price scrape into any of my spreadsheets before due to my rather limited excel expertise.

However, I have now added in the add-in (so to speak) and it works a treat.

Excel 2013 running under Windows 10 in case you are interested.

FD

I spoke a little too soon!

When I save, close and reload the sheet, the add-in is disabled. If I go to Manage add-ins and switch it off and then on again, it works again fine.

OK as a work around, but I think I may be missing something?

FD

I had some problems similar to yours - read through page 2 here and you may find an answer:-

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8229&start=20

Sorry, I don't know how to link to the exact post as I used to on TMF.

GN100 wrote:I had some problems similar to yours - read through page 2 here and you may find an answer:-

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=8229&start=20

Sorry, I don't know how to link to the exact post as I used to on TMF.

Two thoughts:

(1) the addin rightclick menu additions only appear if the spreadsheet contains a getdata function call (no need for it otherwise!)


(2) Not sure if you have already done this, but you can avoid having to open the addin eachtime:

with excel open, search "addins", click the double cog icon, then browse, and browse to where you saved the addin, open it, and it should auto load from then on

it opens when excel opens

or in pre 2010 excel follow tools>addins >browse to location where you saved the addin>double click to "install the addin to run whenever excel is open

Sorry to be behind on this as I have just seen this thread. I have Liveprice and, as reported, find it does not now work. I have downloaded tlfAddin.xla but not sure what to do with it. I have opened it. Nothing seems to happen and when I Refresh I get the error 'User-defined type not defined' on the line
I'm using an old version of Excel -2003 - but it works fine for other spreadsheets with macros.

Perhaps there is somewhere I can download a completely new copy of Liveprice with everything up to date, please?

Hi,

For the last couple of days, when I have been using this excellent add in, many of my shares are showing as nil value. It seems to affect those not listed in the FTSE350. Has anybody else noticed this?

Many thanks,

Steve

Gostevie wrote:Hi,

For the last couple of days, when I have been using this excellent add in, many of my shares are showing as nil value. It seems to affect those not listed in the FTSE350. Has anybody else noticed this?

Many thanks,

Steve

I am seeing similar problems - I think they relate to the Yahoo feeds. Specifically, the Bid / Offer prices are nil for a lot of my shares and if my valuation is based on those, it is reduced accordingly. If you use the "Last" price, you get a better result. I hope Yahoo will correct the feed eventually.

Gostevie wrote:Hi,

For the last couple of days, when I have been using this excellent add in, many of my shares are showing as nil value. It seems to affect those not listed in the FTSE350. Has anybody else noticed this?

Many thanks,

Steve

Could you give some examples of some shares that show nil value?

--kiloran

kiloran wrote:

Gostevie wrote:Hi,

For the last couple of days, when I have been using this excellent add in, many of my shares are showing as nil value. It seems to affect those not listed in the FTSE350. Has anybody else noticed this?

Many thanks,

Steve

Could you give some examples of some shares that show nil value?

--kiloran

Many thanks for your reply.

BLVN.L and CNCT.L (Bowleven and Connect) are two.

Gostevie wrote:

kiloran wrote:

Gostevie wrote:Hi,

For the last couple of days, when I have been using this excellent add in, many of my shares are showing as nil value. It seems to affect those not listed in the FTSE350. Has anybody else noticed this?

Many thanks,

Steve

Could you give some examples of some shares that show nil value?

--kiloran

Many thanks for your reply.

BLVN.L and CNCT.L (Bowleven and Connect) are two.

I tried =getdata("BLVN.L","last") and it gave the same data as the raw data from Yahoo: http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/#http://quer ... ols=blvn.L
(see the regularMarketPrice field)

(using Excel 2010 on Windows 7)

Also worked fine for CNCT.L

Maybe it's time-dependent, I'll check again at various times tomorrow.

--kiloran

Gostevie wrote:Hi,

For the last couple of days, when I have been using this excellent add in, many of my shares are showing as nil value. It seems to affect those not listed in the FTSE350. Has anybody else noticed this?

Many thanks,

Steve

Yes, it is a yahoo feed issue not a problem with the add-in. Many securities are returning zeros for the bid and the offer, but last seems to be ok.

It may be a further deprecation of the yahoo server which would be unfortunate, but this has happened before and righted itself so it is fingers crossed.

kiloran wrote:

Gostevie wrote:

kiloran wrote:Could you give some examples of some shares that show nil value?

--kiloran

Many thanks for your reply.

BLVN.L and CNCT.L (Bowleven and Connect) are two.

I tried =getdata("BLVN.L","last") and it gave the same data as the raw data from Yahoo: http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/#http://quer ... ols=blvn.L
(see the regularMarketPrice field)

(using Excel 2010 on Windows 7)

Also worked fine for CNCT.L

Maybe it's time-dependent, I'll check again at various times tomorrow.

--kiloran

Many thanks! I've replaced the "2" (bid) with "4" (last) in the formula and it now works. I'll try changing it back next week to see if the Yahoo issue has been solved, otherwise it's a decent fix. Thanks again for your help with this.

Steve

The absence of bid and ask field data appears persistent across all UK stocks but not for US or European stocks. I can't find any information as to why so still stuck using last data for the time being. This is generally ok for bigger stocks but you can get pretty stale data for less liquid stuff

eventide wrote:The absence of bid and ask field data appears persistent across all UK stocks but not for US or European stocks. I can't find any information as to why so still stuck using last data for the time being. This is generally ok for bigger stocks but you can get pretty stale data for less liquid stuff

This now appears to have been fixed.

Eventide, my one true love.

I've been making use of this wonderful addin since launch, but I've come unstuck. I bought a Mac...

I've purchased Office 16 for Mac, but I can't get the addin to work. It's in the list of loaded addins but there is no extra functionality gained by right clicking, has anyone else had any luck?

Worryingly, I'm getting the following error at some points, which I presume is to do with the addin:
'Compile error in hidden module: 'sPrices'. This error commonly occurs when code is incompatible with the version, platform, or architecture of this application.'

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Won't work on Office for mac. Office for mac doesn't support VBA

a solution would be a VM (Parallels or something) with a full install of Windows and Office, although this defeats the point of having a mac

eventide wrote:Won't work on Office for mac. Office for mac doesn't support VBA

I thought that Office on a Mac supported VBA, but does not support ActiveX. I may well be wrong.

An alternative for the Mac might be http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... crape.html
I'll probably release an enhanced version of the LibreOffice version in the next day or so.

--kiloran

It may support a limited version of VBA or its own progamming language, but the MS libraries referenced in the VBA project will not be there unless it is a windows environment

kiloran wrote:

eventide wrote:Won't work on Office for mac. Office for mac doesn't support VBA

I thought that Office on a Mac supported VBA, but does not support ActiveX. I may well be wrong.

An alternative for the Mac might be http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... crape.html
I'll probably release an enhanced version of the LibreOffice version in the next day or so.

--kiloran

Hi Kiloran,
Excel for Mac does have VBA, but I think you're right in suggesting that a basic macro might work better.
I've tried downloading the linked file, but I can't seem to make it work even on my Windows PC, do you need to copy and paste the code in VBA that's assigned to the sheet and then create a button in my own file that uses that code? I couldn't see a separate macro module in the file I downloaded. Basically, no idea how to get the functionality from your file into mine.
Apologies if I'm being stupid...

This may be a "you're too dumb to use this" question, but here goes anyway

I've installed the tlfAddin.xla and when I put "=getdata("VOD.L","last")" in a call, which returns the Vod price, so seems to be working just fine.

Question: is there a user manual / url reference / instructions / idiot guide that I can go to to show me what other data is available and how to get it?

Also, (pretty please) are you giving the password to the vba out so I can take a look at the code?

VRD