Day or Date into Bet Angel Challenge!

[buyshirts]

I really could do with the current Day of the week as a Saved Value and i've not been able to do it.

This is the closest ive found to being able to do it and then i will have to used Historical Saved Value to compared the date to it to find the day.
viewtopic.php?t=28536

I did try using the Today function in excel but obviously as the file needs to be CSV that didnt work.

Is there not a more straight forward than this?

[jamesedwards]

I really could do with the current Day of the week as a Saved Value and i've not been able to do it.

This is the closest ive found to being able to do it and then i will have to used Historical Saved Value to compared the date to it to find the day.
viewtopic.php?t=28536

I did try using the Today function in excel but obviously as the file needs to be CSV that didnt work.

Is there not a more straight forward than this?

If you leave Guardian running for days at an end then you could create something where you initially tell it what day it is and how long until midnight, which would then keep track of the day until next restart.

[Euler]

What sport? As on each market name there is the date, so you could truncate that.

[buyshirts]

Greyhounds is where i want to use it.

As there are certain meetings at certain tracks i want to avoid.

[buyshirts]

The Atho55 post in the link does that but you then have to have another version for the dates are double digits.

As i said really i just want the current day and using the date you then have to find the day from there.

Seems a long winded way to get something you would of thought would be relatively easy to get

[DanTheMan1]

I managed to get them in like this.

[buyshirts]

Thats exactly what id like any chance you say how you did it Dan?

[DanTheMan1]

I used the Bet Angel API and created the stored values with a small script in python, I am more than happy to let you have the script if you want it. I am pretty sure this could also be achieved in excel.

[DanTheMan1]

Yes you can, using =TODAY() and =TEXT(A1, "dddd") then replace the cell as a static value and save as a csv.

[buyshirts]

So do you create the spreadsheet CSV with all Dates in one column days in the next and then use Historical lists to hold these values?

[DanTheMan1]

Once the Values have been imported I guess you can use them however you want.

[buyshirts]

Sorry Dan When you used the python script did that import the values into Bet Angel?

[DanTheMan1]

Yes it did, to be honest using the API has definitely opened a lot more doors with the ability to bring a lot more information into Bet Angel.

[buyshirts]

Thanks Dan Right so you use Python and the Bet Angel API rather than pulling the Values in via excel spreadsheet?

[DanTheMan1]

Yes I do now, far more options available in my opinion.