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Dear Eviews team, to my kowledge it is not possible to check in a program if an object exists in a database, a distant workfile, or in another workpage than the current one. The @isobject() function seems to work only in the current page of the current workfile. Thus neither of @isobject("anoth...

Dear Eviews team, there seems to be an inconsistency in the definition of the ddrowopts procedure. While the Eviews help suggests the following syntax: "group_name.ddrowopts(row) args" I found that it is reuqired to also provide a column number, such as "group_name.ddrowopts(row, col)...

Dear Eviews team, is there a way to define the font and font size of a custom row of a dated table view in a program? I tried {%groupname}.ddrowobts(!row,1) customrow("My custom header") font("Calibri", 9) While this inserts the header in the respective row as intended it ignores...

Dear Eviews team, {%seriesname}.@attr("name") provides the name of the series. @attr also allows for obtaining the values of custom attributes of a series that the user has defined herself. However, to my knowledge there is no way to read the history of a series within a program. (I know t...

Dear Eviews team, {%seriesname}.@detailedtype allows distinguishing between links ("LINK") and other series ("SERIES") in a program. However, {%seriesname}.@detailedtype does not distinguish fromula objects from ordineary series as the "detailedtype" of both, formula an...

Dear Eviews team, Eviews version: 8, June 19 2013 build, 64 bit OS: Win7 The following usage of a formula does not work as expected Assume a monthly page: string dummydate = "1/6/2008" frml timedummy = @after(dummydate) ' this generates a timdummy=1 if @date is later than 1/6/2008, zero ot...

Dear followers, I found that replacement variables can be nested, and I would like to share my finding here. I use Eviews 8; however the trick should be applicable with earlier (later) versions as well. '--- %v1="v2" %v2="v3" series v3=100 '-- %v1 refers to the contents of the st...

Dear Eviews team, Eviews version: Eviews 8, 64 bit OS: Windows 7 Issue: Be x a monthly series. The following command does not work as expected series z=x(-@month) Basically, what it does is series z=x(-1) This ppleis correspondly for quarterly series: z=x(-@quarter) Possible workaround: frml month=@...

Dear eviews team, Program version: Eviews 8, 64 Bit OS: Windows 7 Issue: The ddtabopts options "format" does not work as reported in following example taken from the online Eviews 8 help text: hgrp.ddtabopts firstfreq(a) secfreq(none) +displayname fillcolor(@rgb(205,201,201)) yrformat(YY) ...

Hi, thanks for your quick response answer Well , using "wfopen" (it seems that open does apply onyl for text files or pgroammes) or "import" seems to create other kind difficulties Both, wfopen and import do not seem to be fully "batch-job" ready. It seems that I always...

Hi, the following issues trouble me as a user of Eviews 7.2 1) Reading in data into alpa-series is cumbersome. The manual suggests "" To import data into alpha series, you must specify the names of your series, and should enter the tag "$" following the series name (e.g., "N...

Hello, I am using Eviews 7.1 and have the the following suggestions for further updates: ⋅  Allow the creation of global objects and variables within a local subroutine Reason: Often, you want refer to new objects to be created by a subroutine through a string denoting the object name, e.g...