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I just upgraded to 8.1 and wanted to import data from Bloomberg, where I have BBG Professional installed and active. But when I go to Open-->Database, Bloomberg is not one of the options in the pulldown and I can't seem to get a fetch command programmatically to pull down a series. Do I need to init...

Hello, I realize there must be a simple answer to this, but I've been through the help and ref books and tried various options and can't seem to get the correct coding. For Eviews 7, how do I program WFSAVE to save and overwrite a workfile without prompting me in the midst of the program if I want t...

That worked like a charm. Thanks!

When I run it I get the error message:

2 Objects were not found: MB::IH:BL:USSW2 MB::CURNCY in "FETCH(D=MB) IH:BL:USSW2 BGN CURNCY".

I'm trying to loop through two strings in order to download series via Macrobond but can't figure out how to get the quotations marks and spaces correctly. So for example, instead of: fetch(d=mb) "ih:bl:ussw2 bgn curncy" "ih:bl:cdsw2 bgn curncy" "ih:bl:ussw5 bgn curncy"...

Thanks for the help. At least I know I'm not missing the simple option. The @elem would work without too much pain I would think, unless it can't handle alpha series? I thought of something like the below on the way home and was going to try it out when I'm back (using @ilast in the loop as the elem...

Hello. I am trying to speed up the process of filling the strings in a set of programs I have in Eviews 7. Is there a way to fill a string in a program by wfopen/anything else from an Excel 2010 .xlsx file as you would with normal series? For example, if I have a columns in Excel like this? %vars1 %...