Having an issue with all my User Variable names. Looking for a solution.

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Thu, 09/19/2024 - 12:48
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dmavro
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Joined: 01/12/2023 - 19:41
Having an issue with all my User Variable names. Looking for a solution.

Im trying to implement some Ref lines on an intraday chart that will show data via User variables from a HTF chart. When i do so all of the names that appear automatically for the variables on the child chart are wrong. After inspecting the User Variable titles in the preferences screen i noticed that very few of my titles were correct. I tried Using the Auto title button and nothing changed. I had a couple of questions pertaining to this...

1. Can the names be reset all at once some how?
2. Is there anyway to set them all via a text file? (I have all the names in a sheet that i maintain and could easily use that to set them all if its possible.)
3, Why did the Auto title button have no effect when i tried using it?
4. Where does the Auto title process get the titles it is going to use so i can correct them all? Or am i just stuck and have to make all changes manually.( Its just over 200 variables so hoping that is avoidable.)

Thanks,

Dean

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Fri, 09/20/2024 - 12:29
Eddy
Last seen: 9 hours 38 min ago
Joined: 03/01/2024 - 15:25
About V# Variable title

Hi Dean,

if you manually set a title for a given user variable, the only reason that name would change is

1) you are using the same Variable number simultaneously for 2 different purposes (which is of course never recommended)

2) the second purpose is that this particular User Variable is already used in another chart as part of the feature "Store current Value into V#" associated with one of the following indicators

  • The SessionPrices indicator
  • The Profile indicator (which has 2 features of that type : store VAH/VAL  and store LVN/HVN)
  • The Pivot indicator

As you most likely know, these indicators will automatically change the title of a given user variable based on the type of data being stored.

Please note that

  • Investor/RT is not keeping track of the previous name that has been erased.
  • the goal of the "auto title" process is just to rename the V Variables as per the usage which is done when used inside one of the "store current value into V#s" being activated for one of the 3 previously named indicators

To find out such duplicate use, you should run the "Usage Report" function in the "File > Preference >User Variables" menu with all your charts open at once (better do it offline if you have many charts)

Moreover, please note that if you import a chart from a third source, and that chart does include, for example, a Sessionprices indicator already setup with "the Store current values into V#" activated, then the corresponding V# variable will inherit the name as set in the Session Prices indicator of that imported chart...

Finally, be aware that the only other way (i am aware of) to override an existing User Variable name would be to import a Quote Page definition that would include V# variables as QP columns

Conclusion: if you never use twice the same V# variable for a "dual purpose", the title should not be modified. (Otherwise, you need to track down and remove such dual use)

Best Regards,

Eddy

 

 

 

  

 

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