Eikon Extension or Plugin Support

chris179
chris179 Newcomer
in Eikon Data APIs

I am exploring the feasibility of developing an application that will focus on extracting keyword/topic defined News headlines from the Eikon desktop.

My development resource has posed the following questions:

What mechanisms exists in Eikon desktop, to write
extensions or plugins that either adds
HTML, CSS and JavaScript to the browser view used by the desktop
client when presenting news headlines?

Is there another mechanism to write a separate service or
app, that can communicate with
Eikon desktop and extract content using an SDK? What programming languages can be used for such plugins or
for software that communicates with the Eikon desktop client?

Thanks in advance.

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  • Zhenya Kovalyov
    Zhenya Kovalyov LSEG

    Hi @chris179, there is no way to inject your code to be executed in the native applications. What you describe is theoretically possible with either the Side-by-side API (out-of-process Eikon interop) or App Studio (in-process Eikon interop, basically, lets you create your own app running inside Eikon), however, in both cases the News App must support emitting its expression in a context change message, which it currently does not.

  • chris179
    chris179 Newcomer

    Thanks you both for your responses.

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