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Welcome to the CDX Technologies
April 2016 Newsletter
This month we review some features of our new
mobile-friendly website at CDXTech.com, and cover some
troubleshooting techniques when working with CDXZipStream and
CDXStreamer custom function formulas.
You can also check out our latest blog post:
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We have completely redesigned the CDXTech.com
website to be easier to use and more mobile-friendly as well;
if you have the opportunity to visit we welcome any feedback you may
have. Here are some highlights that might be of interest to our
current clients:
Click on "Your Account" on the main toolbar
to login and see the redesigned account area. Some of the
options available here will be dependent on your purchase history.
For example, if you have previously purchased the
"classic" 32-bit version of CDXZipStream, the keycodes and
data files will still be accessible under the CDXZipStream drop-down
menu of your account. If you have purchased the 64-bit version
of CDXZipStream your activations will be shown in the "Account
Status" section. 32-bit classic customers can upgrade to the
64-bit version by purchasing a maintenance subscription for your
version. Just buy this subscription under the "Buy Data
Update" menu option in your account and the upgrade will be made
immediately available.
The account area also allows you to update the email
address associated with your account. This can be done by
signing into your existing account and using the options listed under
"Login Settings". Transfer to another email must be
to someone within your current organization. To update account and
billing addresses, select the "Address Book" option under
the "Your Account" dropdown menu.
If you are looking for more functionality, the
CDXZipStream version and pricing can now be easily identified by
using a checklist of features available here.
You can click on either tab on this page to use the version finder
tool, or to compare features for each CDXZipStream version.
Support information, documentation, troubleshooting,
tutorials and other support tools have been reorganized. Just
select "Support" on the main toolbar or from each product
page. Video tutorials are now organized by topic, and help
files for each product are available directly from the website.
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When Your Formulas Don't Work
Both CDXZipStream and CDXStreamer can provide data as
custom function formulas. These formulas use our proprietary
CDX functions that either link to a local database or to a web
service, such as Bing Maps, to retrieve the requested data.
Occasionally these formulas "don't work" and no data is
retrieved, and for those cases there are some easy troubleshooting
steps you can take:
Change cell formatting to something other than
"Text"
Any Excel formula in a cell formatted as text will not
calculate, and will display the written formula instead of a
calculated value. From the "Home" tab make the sure
destination cells are formatted as either "General" or
"Number", for example, and then run CDXZipStream or
CDXStreamer to obtain new formulas.
Make sure Excel's automatic calculation is on
Excel won't automatically calculate formulas if this
option has been disabled. Go to the "Formulas" tab
and make sure "Automatic" is checked under
"Calculation Options", or as an alternative, use the
following keyboard shortcuts:
F9 calculates all worksheets in all open workbooks
SHIFT+F9 calculates the active worksheet
CRTL+ALT+F9 calculates all worksheets in all
open workbooks, regardless of whether they have changed since the
last calculation.
Check for circular references
A circular reference is a formula that is trying to
calculate its own cell. Excel usually provides warnings if you
create a circular reference, but a warning may not occur if you copy
a formula with a circular reference to other areas of your
worksheet. You can easily use Excel's error checking options in
the "Formula" tab to find circular references in a CDX
custom function formula.
In other cases where the formula returns an error such
as #N/A or #NAME? there may be an installation issue with the
software. Please check the troubleshooting areas on our website
for more information for these cases:
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Latest Data
Updates
Canadian and
U.S. data feeds of CDXZipStream were updated as of April 27.
There were 17 changes made to the U.S. database this month.
If you would like to update your database to reflect these
changes, select the "Account" option on the CDXZipStream
commandbar and click on "Check for Available Database
Updates". You can then update each database as
required.
CDXZipStream
updates are a part of the one-year software maintenance
subscription included with your purchase. If you would like to
extend your subscription, please sign in to the CDX Technologies
website and from the account area for CDXZipStream, select "Buy
Data Update".
As always
we hope you find the information here helpful for you and your
organization. You can contact us with your feedback and
suggestions by replying to this email.
The Team at CDX
Technologies
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