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John Greenan/Bloomberg login
Hello! I hope you read this John.Greenan since you seem to know this area! I
have looked around in the Bloomberg directory but without much success. My problem is really that I do not know if it is possible to do what I want in the first place. However I am just an intern at a large bank and I have spent a lot of time developing the code for getting the data from Bloomberg to Excel. Being able to automate that process would look very nice. Since I am no computer person I really do not understand the computer lingo and I have a hard time finding out if it is possible to do what I want at all. The people around me are lawyers and they hardly know what Bloomberg is so I cannot ask them. Thus my questions a 1) Is this possible at all? I mean I have a computer where people can use Bloomberg. But you get logged out of Bloomberg after you have not used it for an hour or so right? Therefore when the computer has been inactive a while you have to log in to the Bloomberg again in order to be able to load data. Given that fact any downloading that is be automatic must be able to log in to Bloomberg to ensure that the data is actually downloaded. The Bloomberg people REFUSE to help me with this. They wont even say if it is possible or not. I guess that has something to do with them being afraid of hackers. 2) If it is possible is it possible to do it in a reliable fashion? If so what should you use and can I find some help on how to do it? As I said I am no programmer so if it requires a lot of coding it might not be worth it. I am willing to learn but I have limited time. 3) I looked for Active X files on my computer but I do not know even what that means or how to start learning anything about it. I basically would need a users guide for how to do it. Phat pipe and Data License are just words I have heard but I cannot ask anyone so I really cannot tell if I have access to that or not. 4) If anyone has done this before could you please help me? Any help from someone who has done it/knows how to do it is very much appreciated! Thank you very much for any help! Forgive my ignorance but I am willing to learn I just need somewhere to start! Again thank you all very much! Old conversation: Me: Hi! Every night I have a macro that is supposed to run and open and login to a program (the Bloomberg professional) and download some data. My problem is the log in process from my macro. Now I use SendKeys but that seems VERY unreliable. Does anyone have any links with code that shows how to use some better techniques e.g. Active X to log in to a program? Any help appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance! John.Greenan: Have you looked at the Bloomberg ActiveX control? That will avoid having to log onto the Bloomberg terminal. There are samples of code in the bloomberg directory on the PC that has Bloomberg installed. Or try the Data License or phat pipe?? |
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Until John or some other knowledgable individual shows up:
http://about.bloomberg.com/software/info_api.html Phatpipe looks like a data feed service offered by Bloomberg that is service "agnostic". Search for it on Google. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Arne Hegefors" wrote: Hello! I hope you read this John.Greenan since you seem to know this area! I have looked around in the Bloomberg directory but without much success. My problem is really that I do not know if it is possible to do what I want in the first place. However I am just an intern at a large bank and I have spent a lot of time developing the code for getting the data from Bloomberg to Excel. Being able to automate that process would look very nice. Since I am no computer person I really do not understand the computer lingo and I have a hard time finding out if it is possible to do what I want at all. The people around me are lawyers and they hardly know what Bloomberg is so I cannot ask them. Thus my questions a 1) Is this possible at all? I mean I have a computer where people can use Bloomberg. But you get logged out of Bloomberg after you have not used it for an hour or so right? Therefore when the computer has been inactive a while you have to log in to the Bloomberg again in order to be able to load data. Given that fact any downloading that is be automatic must be able to log in to Bloomberg to ensure that the data is actually downloaded. The Bloomberg people REFUSE to help me with this. They wont even say if it is possible or not. I guess that has something to do with them being afraid of hackers. 2) If it is possible is it possible to do it in a reliable fashion? If so what should you use and can I find some help on how to do it? As I said I am no programmer so if it requires a lot of coding it might not be worth it. I am willing to learn but I have limited time. 3) I looked for Active X files on my computer but I do not know even what that means or how to start learning anything about it. I basically would need a users guide for how to do it. Phat pipe and Data License are just words I have heard but I cannot ask anyone so I really cannot tell if I have access to that or not. 4) If anyone has done this before could you please help me? Any help from someone who has done it/knows how to do it is very much appreciated! Thank you very much for any help! Forgive my ignorance but I am willing to learn I just need somewhere to start! Again thank you all very much! Old conversation: Me: Hi! Every night I have a macro that is supposed to run and open and login to a program (the Bloomberg professional) and download some data. My problem is the log in process from my macro. Now I use SendKeys but that seems VERY unreliable. Does anyone have any links with code that shows how to use some better techniques e.g. Active X to log in to a program? Any help appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance! John.Greenan: Have you looked at the Bloomberg ActiveX control? That will avoid having to log onto the Bloomberg terminal. There are samples of code in the bloomberg directory on the PC that has Bloomberg installed. Or try the Data License or phat pipe?? |
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John Greenan/Bloomberg login
in bloomberg, type RPT <GO then hit the F1 key. on the second page, it says
that you don't have to be logged in to your terminal in order for the scheduled reports to run and print automatically. If you only want a printed report, then you can set one up (email me your email address and I can give you more specifics). If you want it in an excel spreadsheet every day, then you gotta login first. No way around it (since about 3 - 4 years ago). Are you using Bloomberg Anywhere licence, which requires the fingerprint scanner synch thing, or the old system which is dedicated to one CPU (terminal)? Very little point asking BBG help about alot of these issues. Gone are the days when those guys really understood their product. I remember when.... But seriously, GO TO THE SEMINARS they hold. It is really, really, really worth it. "Arne Hegefors" wrote: Hello! I hope you read this John.Greenan since you seem to know this area! I have looked around in the Bloomberg directory but without much success. My problem is really that I do not know if it is possible to do what I want in the first place. However I am just an intern at a large bank and I have spent a lot of time developing the code for getting the data from Bloomberg to Excel. Being able to automate that process would look very nice. Since I am no computer person I really do not understand the computer lingo and I have a hard time finding out if it is possible to do what I want at all. The people around me are lawyers and they hardly know what Bloomberg is so I cannot ask them. Thus my questions a 1) Is this possible at all? I mean I have a computer where people can use Bloomberg. But you get logged out of Bloomberg after you have not used it for an hour or so right? Therefore when the computer has been inactive a while you have to log in to the Bloomberg again in order to be able to load data. Given that fact any downloading that is be automatic must be able to log in to Bloomberg to ensure that the data is actually downloaded. The Bloomberg people REFUSE to help me with this. They wont even say if it is possible or not. I guess that has something to do with them being afraid of hackers. 2) If it is possible is it possible to do it in a reliable fashion? If so what should you use and can I find some help on how to do it? As I said I am no programmer so if it requires a lot of coding it might not be worth it. I am willing to learn but I have limited time. 3) I looked for Active X files on my computer but I do not know even what that means or how to start learning anything about it. I basically would need a users guide for how to do it. Phat pipe and Data License are just words I have heard but I cannot ask anyone so I really cannot tell if I have access to that or not. 4) If anyone has done this before could you please help me? Any help from someone who has done it/knows how to do it is very much appreciated! Thank you very much for any help! Forgive my ignorance but I am willing to learn I just need somewhere to start! Again thank you all very much! Old conversation: Me: Hi! Every night I have a macro that is supposed to run and open and login to a program (the Bloomberg professional) and download some data. My problem is the log in process from my macro. Now I use SendKeys but that seems VERY unreliable. Does anyone have any links with code that shows how to use some better techniques e.g. Active X to log in to a program? Any help appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance! John.Greenan: Have you looked at the Bloomberg ActiveX control? That will avoid having to log onto the Bloomberg terminal. There are samples of code in the bloomberg directory on the PC that has Bloomberg installed. Or try the Data License or phat pipe?? |
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Hi
Some answers: 1. The bloomberg documentation makes clear that you have to interactively log onto the Bloomberg at least once per week, but in the meantime you can still connect via DDE or RTD or ActiveX. So don't worry about that side of things. 2. Can this be done reliably. No. Bloomberg don't want people to do this so they make it unreliable. 3. You will have a file with a .ocx extenstion in the bloomberg directory - I don't have bloomberg on this PC and I cannot remember the path, that's the activeX control ( ocx = Active XCO ntrol) 4. You probably really need a developer to do this - is not the easiest thing in the world to try and do as a first project. Good luck -- www.alignment-systems.com "Arne Hegefors" wrote: Hello! I hope you read this John.Greenan since you seem to know this area! I have looked around in the Bloomberg directory but without much success. My problem is really that I do not know if it is possible to do what I want in the first place. However I am just an intern at a large bank and I have spent a lot of time developing the code for getting the data from Bloomberg to Excel. Being able to automate that process would look very nice. Since I am no computer person I really do not understand the computer lingo and I have a hard time finding out if it is possible to do what I want at all. The people around me are lawyers and they hardly know what Bloomberg is so I cannot ask them. Thus my questions a 1) Is this possible at all? I mean I have a computer where people can use Bloomberg. But you get logged out of Bloomberg after you have not used it for an hour or so right? Therefore when the computer has been inactive a while you have to log in to the Bloomberg again in order to be able to load data. Given that fact any downloading that is be automatic must be able to log in to Bloomberg to ensure that the data is actually downloaded. The Bloomberg people REFUSE to help me with this. They wont even say if it is possible or not. I guess that has something to do with them being afraid of hackers. 2) If it is possible is it possible to do it in a reliable fashion? If so what should you use and can I find some help on how to do it? As I said I am no programmer so if it requires a lot of coding it might not be worth it. I am willing to learn but I have limited time. 3) I looked for Active X files on my computer but I do not know even what that means or how to start learning anything about it. I basically would need a users guide for how to do it. Phat pipe and Data License are just words I have heard but I cannot ask anyone so I really cannot tell if I have access to that or not. 4) If anyone has done this before could you please help me? Any help from someone who has done it/knows how to do it is very much appreciated! Thank you very much for any help! Forgive my ignorance but I am willing to learn I just need somewhere to start! Again thank you all very much! Old conversation: Me: Hi! Every night I have a macro that is supposed to run and open and login to a program (the Bloomberg professional) and download some data. My problem is the log in process from my macro. Now I use SendKeys but that seems VERY unreliable. Does anyone have any links with code that shows how to use some better techniques e.g. Active X to log in to a program? Any help appreciated! Thanks a lot in advance! John.Greenan: Have you looked at the Bloomberg ActiveX control? That will avoid having to log onto the Bloomberg terminal. There are samples of code in the bloomberg directory on the PC that has Bloomberg installed. Or try the Data License or phat pipe?? |
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