Is it possible to change labels of spool with coding?

[dean.hong]

Hello,

I am aware that I can change those labels manually, but I have tens of data sets and I would like to have it rather programmed. I have a number of country codes (i.e. US, EZ, JP) but I want to convert them into their full names in the spool as well as to make some other changes. Is there a way to do so? I tried to look up in this website but could not find any case like this. Thanks in advance.

[EViews Gareth]

You have to change the label in the graph before adding it to a spool.

I find the easiest way to do that is to modify the display names of the underlying series before making the graph.

[dean.hong]

Thanks for the fast response. I am pretty new to EViews, and I searched through the forum to find out that the commands to rename series are:

%dispname = myseries.@displayname
%myname = name_of_series.@attr("originalname")
rename {series name} {display name}

But I run into an error every time I try. For example, I wrote %Japan CAI = caihat_jp.@Japan CAI, because I wan to change caihat_jp into Japan CAI, but the program says %Japan CAI is not defined or illegal. Could you just write one code for me (series name = caihat_jp, display name=Japan CAI) so that I can replicate that code? Thank you.

[EViews Gareth]

You set a displayname with:

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nameofseries.displayname the display name you want to use

[dean.hong]

Many thanks! (it works)