simultaneous editing of program files

[EViews Jason]

You could use

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run <mygoogledrive>:\testsave

but this assumes the file is named testsave.prg. Unfortunately you cannot use

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run <mygoogledrive>:\testsave.txt

I would look into getting google docs to open text files that do not have *.txt extensions (ie get google docs to open prg files by default).

[tvonbrasch]

perfect, thanks again!
Thomas

[tvonbrasch]

After the last update, it works perfect! Being able to work on program files in Google Docs is great!

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[tvonbrasch]

Hi Jason

in 2016 you stated that "2) We are still working on this one.".

any progress yet?
Thomas

[tvonbrasch]

Hi

Figured out an alternative way to execute Google Docs as EViews programs. Given a Google Document, such as,

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use the FILE ID and insert it in the following program

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%fileid= "1-T-3yjhYNJbwk3-8z_zf1afdGVo63iYLBM7TNeZybXY" call googledocs(%fileid) 'executes the Google Doc as EViews program '------------------------------------------------------------------------------- subroutine googledocs(string %fileid) %filename = "googledocs_may_be_deleted.txt" 'will be saved in @runpath folder %dir=@runpath 'downloading google doc as txt file %code1="wget https://docs.google.com/document/d/" %code2="/export?format=txt -OutFile " %code=%code1+%fileid+%code2+%dir+%filename shell powershell -command {%code} 'downloading google doc file 'create txt file to execute program %t=@getnextname("_t") 'txt file text {%t} 'create text file {%t}.append(file) {%dir}\{%filename} {%t}.save {%dir}\googledocrunprogram.prg 'save text file as program exec {%dir}\googledocrunprogram 'execute new program file close {%t} endsub

This way of doing it is a bit faster (takes 2,5 seconds instead of about 7 seconds when using the cloud connector in EViews) and Eviews will not unexpectedly shut down (http://forums.eviews.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19330)
Thomas