Investment Studio > Views > Downloads > Downloader > Stand-alone operation

The downloader can act both as an automation server, fulfilling requests from Investment Studio's Downloads view, and as a stand-alone application, carrying out instructions passed over the command line.

Investment Studio's installation directory contains a small command-line application, aptly called download, for the latter mode of operation. Assuming for instance that the installation directory is "C:\Program Files\Investment Studio", you would use the command line

"C:\Program Files\Investment Studio\download" /c

to queue all active download lists for updating. The command line

"C:\Program Files\Investment Studio\download" /a

would cause all lists (not just active ones) to be queued for updating.

It's also possible to queue lists by name. For instance, to queue two download lists called "US stocks" and "US lists", you would use the command line

"C:\Program Files\Investment Studio\download" /l "US stocks" "US lists"

Command lines like these can be used in desktop shortcuts (so you only need to double-click an icon on your desktop when you want to update your database) and in scheduled tasks (for fully automated updates).

If you don't know Investment Studio's location on your system, you can look at the Properties sheet for the shortcut which you normally use to launch Investment Studio (right-click the shortcut to open it) or search for InvestmentStudio.exe using Find or Search (depending on Windows version) in the Windows Start Menu.

To create a desktop shortcut, right-click the Windows desktop, select New and click Shortcut. This opens the "Create Shortcut" wizard. Follow its instructions to enter your command line and a descriptive label for your new shortcut.

Scheduled updates are treated here.