Can I obtain News with the COM API?
Best Answer
Yes. There are two special News RICs for headlines.As these are RICs and FIDs, they can be retrieved using the AdfinX Real Time COM API, rtx.dll library and the AdxRtList class
The first is N2_UBMS (Older) with the following FIDs -1 X_RIC_NAME 1 PROD_PERM 3 DSPLY_NAME 235 PNAC 255 PROC_DATE 259 RECORDTYPE 264 BCAST_TEXT 456 REG_ID1 457 REG_FIELD1 715 STORY_ID 719 NAMED_ITEM 720 TAKE_SEQNO 722 STORY_TYPE 724 CROSS_REF 725 ATTRIBTN 729 MON_PAGES 749 PROD_CODE 750 TOPIC_CODE 751 CO_IDS 752 LANG_IND 1015 TAKE_TIME 1024 STORY_TIME 1027 STORY_DATE 1685 AREA_ID 1686 SF_NAME 6307 CF_NAME The second is NFCP_UBMS (Newer) with the following FIDs -1 X_RIC_NAME 1 PROD_PERM 3 DSPLY_NAME 235 PNAC 255 PROC_DATE 259 RECORDTYPE 456 REG_ID1 457 REG_FIELD1 500 SRCOFDATA 720 TAKE_SEQNO 722 STORY_TYPE 724 CROSS_REF 725 ATTRIBTN 1027 STORY_DATE 1383 DSO_ID 1685 AREA_ID 1686 SF_NAME 3859 SEQ_NO 4272 HEADLINE1 4275 NAMEDITEMS 4276 NEWS_PRIO 4277 NEWSCODE01 4278 NEWSCODE02 4299 STORYTM_MS 4301 TAKETM_MS 4303 TOT_SEGS 4517 HEAD_DIR 4518 HEAD_LANG 4524 NEWSMGTSTG 4525 PRODCODE_N 6307 CF_NAME The News STORY can be obtained via the PNAC (the story identifer) although this is bit more involved.