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Great for umidas type stuff!

Yep, definitely a bug. We'll fix. Just if you're interested, here's some code that makes it concrete. close @wf wfcreate(page=q) q 1990 2030 series y=nrnd pagecreate(page=m) m 1990 2030 series x=nrnd pageselect q copy(c=split) m\x * smpl 1990 2020 2023 2030 equation eq1.midas(midwgt=umidas, fixedlag...

Patch is out.

Here's a stab. mode quiet close @all import(page=key) .\key.txt @freq u 1 %name = @wright(@wlookup("*"), 1) rename {%name} name %name = "name" rename series* key* %keys = @wlookup("key*") %objects = @wdelim( _ @wreplace( _ "vintage year " + %keys + " &quo...

Yeah, that’s not a bad way to do it.

The issue is that because there is no between cross-section variation (a and b are identical), when you stack, EViews does the "smart" thing in realising you don't need two different value series, so it condenses down to a single series, called value. Then when you do the tidyup step, you ...

Are you still having issues with the first case (or the second)? I took a look, but think I need more information on what you're trying to do. I put a stop right before your "attempt 1", just to load the two pages and do the renames. But after that I can't see what you're trying to accompl...

Yes, you cannot redeclare the link if it already exists. We'll take a look to see if we can improve that behaviour.

In the meantime, yes, you'd have to delete it first.

You mean determine what it is currently set to? No, unfortunately not.

@dateval usually just figures it out without needing a format

No, it is a global setting in EViews.



I think there's probably an easy way to do what you want, but I don't understand, yet, what you're trying to do.

No, the spreadsheet view of a group does not allow you to use displaynames instead of actual names. You could write a quick add in that does it for you. Freeze the spreadsheet view of the group into a table, loop through the columns replacing the text in the first row with the displayname of the ser...

format or frequency? @pagefreq give the frequency.

Format is machine based, not page/file based.

Not built in, no

I don't follow what you want here.

The show command is used to display a view of an object.

You could use which would display the label view, that has the displayname as one of the entries?