Vision Upload Format: PbGroups

Vision Portfolio Management Application Layer: Data Feeds

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Data Feed: PbGroups

Category: RangeGroupFeed

Summary:

The PbGroups feed is used to define and update PBGroup ranges and to classify Security instances into ranges based on a security's priceToBook value. The security property pbGroup stores the current range value. The RangeClassification class is described in more detail in the Portfolio Management Application Classes document.

Available Fields:

Field	PbGroup Property	Type	Description
--- Required Fields ---
startValue	lowerBound	Number	minimum value in range
endValue	upperBound	Number	maximum value in range
label	name	-	label that describes range

Special Processing Rules:

• This feed replaces all existing instances of the PBGroup classes with the instances defined by this feed.

• Using the ranges defined by this feed, the Security property priceToBook is used to determine an PBGroup classification which is used to update the pbGroup property at the security.

• Use the value NA to indicate a range is unbounded for its start or end point. Ranges are assumed to be contiguous.

Related Feeds:

• FundamentalM: updates monthly book values
• PriceFeed: updates prices

Sample Upload:

The following tab-delimited feed could be used to define and update price-to-book groups. The fields must be supplied in this order. The header line should be included, but the header values are ignored:

     Interface ExternalFeedManager upload: "PbGroups" using:
       "startValue     endValue   label
        NA             1          less than 1
        1              5          1 to 5
        5              10         5 to 10
        10             20         10 to 20
        20             NA         more than 20
      " ;