3.6.1 What’s New

A brief summary of the new functionality in version 3.6.1 is listed below.

§ Market Depth

§ Currency of stock shown in Level 2 Market depth window.

§ Uncrossing price shown in auction periods will now be shown in bold.

§ Triggerpages

§ Stocks will now be highlighted during opening, closing and intra-day auctions.

§ Able to colour Stock Symbol & Net Chg by value i.e. UpTick colour if positive, DownTick colour if negative, SameTic colour if no change.

§ Watchlist

§ Able to colour Stock Symbol, Net Chg & %Chg by value i.e. UpTick colour if positive, DownTick colour if negative, SameTic colour if no change.

§ Alerts

§ Users can now use the Enable All Alerts, Disable All Alerts and Flip All options to disable and enable alerts.

New 3.61 News Functionality

News component has been completely re-designed. The new version is much improved and includes numerous new features. Access to all of these new features is dependant upon whether or not you are a Premium or Standard news subscriber. Needless to say the Premium news offers users significant improvements to both functionality in terms of use and versatility of the content viewed. In short the service allows users greater scope to customise the news feature within the platform

N.B: Not all of the functionality outlined below is available to standard news users. Certain functionality is only available to premium news subscribers.

There are now 2 main windows and the individual story window. The main News Headline window and the Dow Jones Explorer window which can both be accessed from the toolbar icons shown below.

Headline Window

When first opened this window behaves in exactly the same manner as the old news but contains some extra columns and features. Double clicking on a story creates a separate window in which the story is displayed. The story window behaves in the same way as the preview pane described below.

Icons

This column will show P for premium news stories and/or H for stories Dow Jones consider “Hot”

Source

This column shows the source of the story as defined by Dow Jones.

Pressing the “Preview Pane” button activates the preview pane.

Preview Pane

Detailed below is the decription of each selectable icon in the preview pane.

Properties

The button starts another window displaying low level information about the story. This window will not be useful on a day-to-day basis but allows the developers to quickly find low level information about a story.

Prints the current story

Creates an e-mail (using your default e-mail program) with the current story attached. If you have Outlook installed the program will create an e-mail window from your Outlook session.

Find

This button allows you to search for words or expressions within the current story. It behaves just like Find in Microsoft® Word.

Search term Highlighting

This button only works from the DJE window. Therefore in the News Headlines window this button will be greyed out. When pressed it will highlight (the default colour is red) any words or expressions that match the “Keywords &Phrases” search criteria. The example below shows a story that matches the search term “superman” and has the Search Term Highlight button enabled.

First, Previous, Next, Last

These buttons allow quick movement up and down the list of news stories contained within the news headlines window.

All of the following icons only appear if a keyword or symbol is recognised by Dow Jones within the current story that is being viewed either within the preview pane or a separate window.

Making a selection by clicking on one of the buttons and selecting from the menu that opens can result in one of the following behaviours :

1. When an item from one of the menus on the buttons below is selected from the headline window or an individual story window a new filter is started on the selected item. The new filter will start in a separate window.

2. When an item is selected from the Dow Jones Explorer window and the Search panel is closed the behaviour is the same as above.

3. When an item is selected from the Dow Jones Explorer window and the Search panel is open the item is added to the current search criteria. This allows you to build up a search definition to be run afterwards or saved.

Symbol

List of stocks associated with the current story.

Geographical Rgn

List of Geographical Regions that are appropriate to the story.

Government

List of government keywords associated with the story.

Industry

List of Industry keywords for the story

Market

List of market keywords

Product

List of product keywords

Subject

List of subject keywords – there are often many subject keywords per story.

DJE – Dow Jones Explorer Window

This window is start by selecting the DJE button from the main toolbar.

It allows you to create and run many types of searches against our news database. It will always open with an empty screen and has three main panels.

As the Results panel and Preview pane have already been discussed this section will focus on the Search Criteria Panel. The diagram below shows each section of the panel expanded and the function of the buttons.

The picture below shows a list of customised searches that users can create and save. These searches can be activated and run at any time.

The saved searches shown with the following icon will allow news stories to stream in to the news stream pane.

Where the saved searches shown with the following icon will not allow news stories to stream in to the news stream pane.

Below you will see part of the list of pre-saved searches available to users. Double clicking on the desired search and it will run automatically and return the results in the upper part of the window.