We are looking to integrate BBG shortcuts to our toolbar and use Interop to trigger those? Please give me an idea of whether this is possible and what we need to do to make it happen. We do have interop integration with the Portware app.
Thanks,
Raman
Yes, interop.io offers a Bloomberg Adapter. The Bloomberg Adapter API allows invoking Bloomberg functions with a custom set of arguments. There’s also a BBG Market Data API that provides access to the Bloomberg Market Data Feed (B-PIPE).
Since you mentioned toolbar, do you use the Floating toolbar - GitHub - InteropIO/toolbar: Glue42 Toolbar Application? Since version 9.9 it was replaced by the Launchpad, which is more flexible and extendable - io.Connect Desktop Documentation - Launcher. It’s actually much easier to add shortcuts to the launcher. The floating toolbar has also been deprecated in version 10.0 (released few weeks ago).
So I strongly recommend you to use the Launchpad instead - io.Connect Desktop Documentation - Launcher and if you are on pre-9.9 version plan migrating. Otherwise, you will need to eventually do it and make double work.
You can see a short demo of the Bloomberg adapter here:
Thank you for the details.
This is something I’ve not considered Toni. In the Launcher you said you can add shortcuts. I assume you mean shortcuts to apps. Is it possible to have shortcuts that just invoke an FDC3 intent instead? So that would create ‘action button’ UI for our workspaces. e.g. If in the workspace we have a particular Instrument context in a particular user channel. If I press a button I would want something like ShowChart intent raised with that instrument as the param.Then that intent would get handled by the terminal connect adapter and routed to BBG GIP component.
Hi Nick, yes, I meant shortcuts to apps.
That should all work. You can create a button in the Launchpad, that will check a workspace context or channel context onclick, and raise an intent.
This one needs to be tested.