Greyhounds Today (25 June 2011)

[mak]

I don't see any races today except the televised markets in the evening.
Is that right?

** by the way the televised cards were loaded with -3.12 trigger which is not supposed to do so.

[GaryRussell]

There aren't any on the website either. As far as I know televised racing has always been included in -3.12. It's supposed to load all win markets.

[2020vision]

Greyhounds are now available

[mak]

Sorry Gary you are right..

2020 thanks..

[zootime]

This appears to be an issue today as well.
Last time this happened, I periodically tried loading the quick pick list with the markets I require.
Every time I tried this the list came back empty, it wasn't until I refreshed all the markets using the "Refresh" button, that the list was populated.
I run a timer to reload the quick pick list just before the start of racing to get over the problem of Betfair loading them later than we are used to, but if the refresh is required, first, this isn't going to have the desired effect.

So can you confirm that you have to refresh before reloading the list or have I got it wrong, If I have to refresh first, is there a way to do it in VBA.

[GaryRussell]

The races are not on Betfair's website either so this isn't a BA issue. They just aren't available.

If reloading manually then yes you have to click the refresh button first. When use an Excel trigger you don't need to worry about it. If the markets haven't been refreshed for over 5 minutes it will automatically refresh the market tree before attempting to add them to the quick pick list.

[GaryRussell]

The markets are there now. I wonder why they have started putting them up late.

[mak]

Maybe a coincidence but at both days there was a live meeting

[zootime]

The races are not on Betfair's website either so this isn't a BA issue. They just aren't available.

If reloading manually then yes you have to click the refresh button first. When use an Excel trigger you don't need to worry about it. If the markets haven't been refreshed for over 5 minutes it will automatically refresh the market tree before attempting to add them to the quick pick list.

Thanks Gary,
But I am not sure I got this to happen:
I started BA when the markets weren't there, I started my sheet through "log multiple sheets" and nothing appeared, OK so I know why because we now know the greyhound markets weren't available.
I closed the excel link and closed the excel workbook.

I left BA up and waited for the markets to appear on Betfair and then waited ten minutes.

I started my sheet as above and still no luck.. no market. I then issued -3.14 from my sheet and still it did not load the market. I waited ten minutes again, to make certain that the 5 minute rule was invoked and tried again..... still no luck.

So I closed down excel again and did a manual refresh of the markets tree. Now when I started excel everything worked as expected.

So it appears to me that BA doesn't automatically refresh the markets as expected from the trigger, I am not sure if it supposed to when it opens a spreadsheet, but there was only so much investigation I could do.

[GaryRussell]

The races are not on Betfair's website either so this isn't a BA issue. They just aren't available.

If reloading manually then yes you have to click the refresh button first. When use an Excel trigger you don't need to worry about it. If the markets haven't been refreshed for over 5 minutes it will automatically refresh the market tree before attempting to add them to the quick pick list.

Thanks Gary,
But I am not sure I got this to happen:
I started BA when the markets weren't there, I started my sheet through "log multiple sheets" and nothing appeared, OK so I know why because we now know the greyhound markets weren't available.
I closed the excel link and closed the excel workbook.

I left BA up and waited for the markets to appear on Betfair and then waited ten minutes.

I started my sheet as above and still no luck.. no market. I then issued -3.14 from my sheet and still it did not load the market. I waited ten minutes again, to make certain that the 5 minute rule was invoked and tried again..... still no luck.

So I closed down excel again and did a manual refresh of the markets tree. Now when I started excel everything worked as expected.

So it appears to me that BA doesn't automatically refresh the markets as expected from the trigger, I am not sure if it supposed to when it opens a spreadsheet, but there was only so much investigation I could do.

I'll look into it.