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i am a very light user of eviews but love the FRED database interface which i use quarterly do download the most up to date series i am interested in. i am trying to use the BEA interface data downloads but get the message "BEA API userID not authorized for retrieval" from eviews11 when i seek to browse the BEA dataset in eviews.
help! i have my 36 digit BEA key and have activated it with BEA. What do i do?
russ

The first time you opened BEA,EViews asked you to enter the BEA API key in he preferences dialog : To bring back this dialog:
1. Open the BEA database
2. On the database window click View->Preferences...
3. Enter your API key and click OK

Try to Browse again and see the BEA datasets.

thank you thank you thank you thank you !!

i am not able to import NIPA data series from BEA. I am able to import specific GDP series when i browse the BEA database so i am doing something right but the NIPA choices i get appear to be Table ID and Table Name. When i select (check) a particular line for the series i want, eviews appears to bring the table id "series" into its BEA window. This generates an error "invalid identifiers for object" when i attempt to copy the series to a workfile. Where is the NIPA data itself? How can i do the same steps for the GDP data and be successful? thanks for any insights.

We are going to have a fix on the next patch of EViews.
The problem with retrieving series from NIPA dataset is that data is returned unsorted by BEA and this is unexpected.

thanks for letting me know so quickly. hopefully the next patch will be soon!

i am struggling to codify an automatic download of BEA data. BLS and FRED appear to be much easier for me to code in. i am stuck at the code below. any help would be appreciated. Russ

dbopen(type=bea, server=https://apps.bea.gov/api/data)
wfcreate m 1991 2020
fetch NIUNDERLYINGDETAIL__TABLENAME=U20405.SERIESCODE=DNDGRC.LINENUMBER=70.FREQUENCY=M.TABLEID=U20405

to which i get the following error...
Database Error: Bureau of Economic Analysis library error:
'Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <.
Path '', line 0, position 0.' in "FETCH NIUNDERLYINGDETAIL__TA
BLENAME=U20405.SERIESCODE=DNDGRC.LINENUMBER=70.
FREQUENCY=M.TABLEID=U20405" on line 39.

thanks,
russ

The result of the fetch returns an error (Response size too large) since EViews is always fetching ALL years available from BEA.
We will have a fix in the next EViews patch:
1. Show the error as received from BEA.
2. Allow to add YEAR option at the end of the fetch to limit the results and allow fetch to continue.

I will let you know when fix is available.

Latest patch of EViews 11 has a fix for this issue (Release date: 05-12-2020)

i tried my hand at adding YEAR=2020 to the end of the code line but got rejected...
i entered the following:

dbopen(type=bea,server=https://apps.bea.gov/api/data)
fetch NIUNDERLYINGDETAIL__TABLENAME=U20405.SERIESCODE=DNDGRC.LINENUMBER=70.FREQUENCY=M.TABLEID=U20405. Year=2020.

my error statement reads:
Database Error: Bureau of Economic Analysis library error: 'Index
was outside the bounds of the array.' in "FETCH
NIUNDERLYINGDETAIL__TABLENAME=U20405.
SERIESCODE=DNDGRC.LINENUMBER=70.FREQUENCY=M.
TABLEID=U20405. YEAR=2020." on line 33.

i have the feeling i'm close!
thanks,
russ

In your fetch command :
fetch NIUNDERLYINGDETAIL__TABLENAME=U20405.SERIESCODE=DNDGRC.LINENUMBER=70.FREQUENCY=M.TABLEID=U20405. Year=2020
there is a space before the Year : ". Year=2020"

Remove the white space and try again:
fetch NIUNDERLYINGDETAIL__TABLENAME=U20405.SERIESCODE=DNDGRC.LINENUMBER=70.FREQUENCY=M.TABLEID=U20405.Year=2020

It worked! Thank you so much. i love this software and great support!!!