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Tool Config buttons on Control Bar

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[2022-03-08 01:28:10] #1 [Go To First Post]
dvant krypto - Posts: 42
Hello.... According to the manual: Each Drawing Tool in Sierra Chart supports 24 individual configurations that can easily be selected before you use that Drawing Tool. This is controlled through the Tools >> Current Tool Config menu and the selection applies to the currently selected Drawing Tool. Chart Drawing Tools: Using Multiple Drawing Tool Configurations But what I notice is that you can only assign (or name) a Tool Config button once to put as a shortcut on a control bar. For example: if I create a config for an extending rectangle and assign it to TC1 and I create a config for a horizontal line and also assign it to TC1 - I would need to name this button on the Control Bar something that tells me it is an extending rectangle config and a line config which will work assuming I've clicked the relevant tool first. What I'm saying is I cannot create 2 TC1 buttons and rename them accordingly. I understand that you need to have the relevant tool activated before a TC button will work and a TC1 button will refer to the TC1 of whichever tool is currently selected. However, I may have 3 different extending rectangles and 3 different horizontal lines and three different something else. And within those tools I'm assigning the configs in chronological order. But if I want to create shortcuts there is just one TC1 button which can't be duplicated which means I need to remember what the configs are or just make really big buttons with lots of info which needs to be updated each time I create a new TC1 within a new tool. Is this right? Am I missing something? Any help greatly appreciated.

[2022-07-11 17:10:26] #2 [Go To First Post]
dvant krypto - Posts: 42
I'm giving this a bump to see if anyone can help.

[2024-11-14 04:40:40] #3 [Go To First Post]
User708541 - Posts: 87
I would like help with this too. I'm trying to have 2 different buttons for different types of Volume Profiles and it is proving to be rather difficult.

[2024-11-14 14:24:03] #4 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 36426
Refer to the instructions at the following link to setup Control Bar buttons that select the drawing tool and configuration: Chart Drawing Tools: Creating Control Bar Buttons which Select Drawing Tool and Drawing Tool Configuration in One Step For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

[2024-11-14 15:00:50] #5 [Go To First Post]
User708541 - Posts: 87
Yes, I went through those instructions over and over. What is not apparent and I don't see in any documents is the following. For the Draw Profile Line Tool. If you set up a normal, non-custom, button to draw a volume profile, then use a Custom Drawing Tool button to draw a modified volume profile which only shows VWAP, for instance, this simply does not work. What you need to do,(correct me if I'm wrong) if you want 2 buttons to control a tool to do 2 different things, is to have 2 separate Custom Tool Buttons (not one normal button and one custom button). With 2 separate Custom Tool buttons configured, THEN I was able to have one custom button draw a traditional volume profile, and the other Custom Button draw the VWAP. If I'm correct, it would be beneficial to update the SC documentation.

[2024-11-14 15:32:55] #6 [Go To First Post]
John - SC Support - Posts: 36426
We think you are not understanding how the Configurations work. If you have a tool button, that just selects a tool, then that tool will use the last selected configuration. This is true for all tools, including the Drawn Volume by Price tool. Therefore, if you want a Drawn Volume by Price that is a "Standard" configuration and you have not defined a specific configuration for this, then you would need to ensure that you had a configuration selected for that tool that did not have a Study Collection associated with it. The other option, as you are point out, is that you can have a customized button that defines the "standard" configuration that you want and then not have to think about what configuration is selected when you want to use that tool. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing

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