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Date/Time: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:27:59 +0000
Feature Request: Enhanced Chart Drawing Copying Options
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| [2025-04-13 18:42:49] |
| User676363 - Posts: 82 |
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I am reaching out to request two enhancements to the chart drawing copying functionality in Sierra Chart, to improve managing drawings across multiple charts. Option to Disable Copying After Initial Transfer: When using the "Copy Chart Drawings from Chart #'s" feature in Chart Settings, I would like the ability to copy drawings from a source chart to a destination chart and then disable the copying link, so the destination chart retains the copied drawings but becomes independent. Any new drawings created on the destination chart should not affect the source chart, and vice versa, without needing to manually remove the source chart number from settings. An option to keep copied drawings and discard the chart links would be ideal - it would duplicate all linked drawings and turn off all the links to source charts for those objects taking me back to basically a clean chart with no links but keeping all drawing objects. Manual Copy/Paste for Independent Drawings: I would appreciate a feature to manually copy specific chart drawings (e.g., via right-click >> Copy Chart Drawing) to another chart, where the pasted drawings are independent of the source chart. Currently, there’s no direct way to paste drawings as new, unlinked instances. This would allow users to selectively transfer drawings and create new ones on the destination chart without impacting the original. Actual scenario: when I have chart objects from charts 1, 2, 3 set to copy to chart 4, I am focused on that chart 4 and I start making copies of the objects there, I would really like each of the copied objects to be sourcedon chart 4 and not copy them on charts 1, 2, and 3, which is the current behavior. Is there any way to accomplish this with the current system? Was thinking perhaps I could change the chart # source using the manage drawings window, but it doesn't really have a way to see the sources of the copied objects. Perhaps it could be added there, giving people a way to view the copied objects and offering a way to copy them to the current chart? Only way I've seen to do this is to duplicate a chart, but it doesn't work well when we are copying drawings from multiple sources. It's only helpful if we have a 1:1 copy process, which isn't ideal when there are multiple higher time frames being tracked and sometimes, charts from other chartbooks as well for economic events, etc. |
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