Charting configuration
This page provides a summary of all the Charting blade configuration options.
Configuration files
The Charting Blade’s configuration can be found in the following files: charting.conf, fieldset.conf, and watchlist.conf.
| Shutdown Transformer before configuring Charting. Some Charting configuration is overwritten when Transformer shuts down. |
Configuration items
This section lists the configuration items supported by the Charting Blade.
Requesting data
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[Visit link to see definition] |
A symbol to start caching data for at start up. |
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[Visit link to see definition] |
The name of a container (or Refinitiv chain) which will be requested on startup. |
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[no default] |
Temporarily add a symbol to the watchlist. |
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[no default] |
Name of file to write watchlist to. |
Caching data
| Option | Default value | Links | Description |
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10 |
Maximum amount of time (in days) to keep caching a user-requested symbol after it was last requested. |
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[current directory] |
Directory to be used to store the cached charting data files. |
Filtering data
| Option | Default value | Links | Description |
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[Visit link to see definition] |
Defines how a Transformer handles a set of instruments and which fields should be cached for that type. |
Outputting data to Transformer
| Option | Default value | Links | Description |
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Prefix for subjects that the Charting blade will provide data for. |
Logging
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Determines the errors and events that are reported to the |
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Name of file to write debug messages to. |
Opening hours and timezones
| Option | Default value | Links | Description |
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[no default] |
The name of the symbol carrying information to request at start up. |
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[no default] |
Minutes after midnight local time at which to rerequest trading time information. |
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[no default] |
Day at which to rerequest trading time information. |
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[no default] |
Filename to write trading time information to. |
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FALSE |
Boolean determining whether trading time information should be written to file on shutdown. |
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1024 |
Number of entries in the hashtable which holds trading times. |
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[Visit link to see definition] |
Defines the opening time information for a specific exchange. |
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[Visit link to see definition] |
Defines the opening time information for a specific symbol. |
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[Visit link to see definition] |
Defines the opening time information for an exchange’s symbol root. |
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2 |
Number of characters to truncate root symbols to. |
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[Visit link to see definition] |
Identifies a time zone. |