Market Status Indicators and Widget Refinements
This February, we’ve focused on refining and improving the features launched in January while adding practical enhancements that make your daily investor relations tasks more efficient. These updates center on providing clearer market context, better announcement filtering options, and improved system reliability. While this month emphasizes optimization over major new features, these improvements directly address feedback from users working with our expanded widget set.
Improvements
Feature: Market Status Indicator in Share Price API
Benefit: Your share price displays now automatically show whether the market is currently open or closed, helping stakeholders understand when they’re viewing live versus static pricing data. This eliminates confusion about price movements and provides important context for investors checking your page outside trading hours or during market holidays.
Feature: Enhanced Announcement Filtering Options
Benefit: All announcement table widgets now include a comprehensive “show types” dropdown, allowing you to customize exactly which announcement categories appear for your stakeholders. Instead of displaying every announcement type, you can focus on the most relevant communications for your investor audience, creating a cleaner, more targeted information flow.
Bug Fixes
Feature: Improved Data Validation for History Tracking
Benefit: We’ve strengthened our system’s data validation process to ensure more accurate logging and reporting. This improvement reduces inconsistencies in data tracking and provides more reliable information when you need to review announcement history or troubleshoot display issues.
Feature: ASX-Specific Share Price Graph Optimization
Benefit: The share price graph widget now operates exclusively with ASX data, eliminating errors that previously occurred when the system attempted to display non-ASX securities. This ensures reliable chart functionality for ASX-listed companies and prevents display issues that could confuse stakeholders.
Feature: Announcement Types Dropdown Visibility and Data Corrections
Benefit: We’ve resolved missing announcement types for financial and half-yearly report widgets, ensuring all relevant categories appear in your filtering options. The types dropdown now displays consistently across all widgets, giving you complete control over which announcements stakeholders see without missing any important categories.
Conclusion
These February refinements strengthen the foundation built in January’s major update, ensuring the enhanced features work reliably in your daily investor relations workflow. By focusing on market context, filtering accuracy, and system stability, we’re making sure ShareLink continues to save you time while providing stakeholders with clear, relevant information.
Looking ahead to March, we’re preparing several significant feature additions based on your feedback and requests.
FAQ
1. How does the market status indicator help my stakeholders?
The indicator clearly shows when the ASX is open or closed, so investors understand whether they’re seeing real-time prices or the last trading price. This is particularly helpful for international stakeholders who may not be familiar with ASX trading hours.
2. Can I set default announcement types for my widgets?
Yes, you can configure which announcement types appear by default in each widget. Once set, stakeholders will see your preferred selection automatically, though they can still access other announcement types if needed.
3. Will the ASX-only restriction affect companies with secondary listings?
The share price graph widget focuses specifically on ASX trading data. If your company has secondary listings, those would need separate widgets or displays designed for those markets.
4. What announcement types were missing from the financial reports widgets?
Previously, some half-yearly and annual report subcategories weren’t appearing in the dropdown options. We’ve restored the complete list, ensuring you can filter for all variations of financial reporting announcements.
5. How can I tell if the market status feature is working on my widgets?
The market status appears as a small indicator near your share price display. During ASX trading hours, it will show “Market Open,” and outside trading hours, it will display “Market Closed” along with the time of the price update.
6. Do these improvements require any changes to my existing widget setup?
No, all improvements are automatically applied to existing widgets. The new announcement filtering options will be available immediately, and you can configure them whenever convenient.
7. When will the new features mentioned for March be available?
We’ll announce the March features in our next product update. These will include several user-requested additions that build on the solid foundation we’ve established in January and February.
