Template talk:Colombian Securities Exchange

Purpose

This template provides a link to the listings of the Colombian Stock Exchange website in the same way other templates of wikipedia provide links to other stock exchange websites such as Nasdaq. This template also automatically categorizes on Category:Companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Colombia.

This template is based on the template Template:Tyo ..look it up if you need to compare them in order to understand them.

How to use this template

The Bolsa de Valores of Colombia website does not have a comprehensive list of links to every company information. The way I have gotten the code inside the internal database is by getting the last number of the URL by clicking on the image that links to the corresponding page and copying the link location and extracting the number at the end of the URL. As of today (Aug 22, 2009) That is the way I do it because BVC uses URL rewriting so there is no way to know by looking the URL on the browser.

The aforementioned number should replace the 'XXX' as such:

Example

[[Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota|ETB]] (Phones of Bogota) trades on Bolsa de Valores of Colombia. The way to reach their info page in BVC's website is by including its number {{BVC|115}}

Note

Right now I can't guarantee this will work because it seems they might be hashing something in the URL. If they are hashing a cookie then it might be impossible to create a template and therefore this template will have to be deleted or maybe someone smarter than me can find a way around this. Either way please let me know. Thanks! --Camilo Sanchez (talk) 10:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have just checked and it seems to me that they are not hashing any cookie or session ID - Tried in two different browsers and it seems to be ok. Thanks:--Camilo Sanchez (talk) 10:31, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]