If you're having any problems, or want to suggest some improvements, please post below!

Level2 changes
In the last few weeks we've needed to implement some code changes to make us compliant with the LSE's rules on the access of Level2 data.

The following requirement is now in place:
You can only use 1 program on 1 computer to access Level2 on MoneyAM using a single username.

This means that you are able to view as many Level2 windows using any one particular browser, or program, that you wish, however you will not be able to use both Firefox and Internet Explorer at the same time (the same goes for using Quote Tracker or TradeSeeker at the same time as viewing it using a web browser)

If you find you're being logged off of MoneyAM's Level2 with the message 'you've logged on from another location' then check the above and make sure you're not running any other programs at the same time before reporting this as a bug.

New Admissions :

APS
ELY

Name/Epic Changes :

FPEA (was MNCA)
FPEB (was MNCB)
INST (was BRJK)

OILB no intraday data

New Admission :

RENE

When a share is consolidated the portfolio calculations all go bananas. Historic data should be stored as absolute values and not calculated each time. Trust me; I'm a programmer. :)

whats happenend to the site search? its seems to have reverted to a very limited and almost useless shadow of its former not very good self ?

Spaceman,

Site search? There was never a way of searching the entire site...

Are you talking about the bulletinboard? If so, what's wrong with it?

J.

J, yes BB search, it now seems to be limited to Title Keywords, started by and contributed by. It used to have much more.

Spaceman, it was "enhanced" at the same time as the new version of the bulletin board :-)

Thanks K, shame that, its wasnt that great before now its complete crap !

the buttons to the left of the ticker in my watch list no longer work when i press them, also when a N appears for news that no longer works, i recently installed a java update and was wondering if this may be the problem.

drunker50 - the java should not cause this problem, it is more than likely that a pop up blocker either in your firewall or on your browser is causing this. It may have been activated by an automatic update,

Ian

IAN, many thanks you were correct, i have adjusted my settings and all is now fine.

Spaceman,

The only thing the last search had and this one doesn't is the ability to search for words within an individual post and this is due to the volume of postings that we now have :(

If you were writing the BB search, how do you have it work?

J.

J,
But that "only thing" was the only thing that made it worthwhile ;-)

For example we have threads with huge amounts of useful information that people have contributed to over many months which cannot be searched e.g. the PC problems thread.

I know searching takes a lot of resource but Its so useful if done correctly that it should not be removed because of volume of posts.

I would like to see searching by Poster, by thread title word, by keyword inside threads and with a date range available as well. That would enable most searches to work and produce something useful.

I struggle to think of any circumstances where the current search is of any use for anything I would search for.

It has to be said that the search, however crap, is less crap than AFN's current offering, which omits the 'contributed to by' option!

Apart from the content search, the option to return results in the form of posts rather than threads is really required.

I would like to support both Spaceman's and Kayak's suggestions for improving the search facility.

Being directed to individual posts would be an enormous help. It's all very well knowing that the requested item is in a particular thread, but not much help when that thread has thousands of posts, as many now do.

And even some of the old links linking to articles and postings within MoneyAM,that were present on old postings prior to the recent 'modernisations, do not now work.

A poster has to have an altruistic tendency to make a contribution to a BB such as this. If you remove all and any facility to be able to find such contributions, you damage that tendency and risk such contributors losing their motivational drive.

You also communicate a lack of 'caring' about this problem to your users. This indirectly re-communicates to your contributors a sorta kinda, "Well, if you don't care, why should we?"

What you have done and hav not done are both inadequate and IMHO, I think you underestimate this type of situation.

Using a Google tool on your own machine as well as the on the Internet does seem to be a growing trend. Isn't there some way either we or you can integrate a Google tool into your site's data?

I'm getting a fair number of article not found messages on clicking after a news search. E.g.

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200508151126320945Q.html

Kayak,

I will contact our suppliers to take a look into this,

Ian