Display name of sub-portfolio

[Matt]

Hi Mark,
I can display the name of the Portfolio and the File location on a graph, but could not find a way to display the name of sub-portfolios in that portfolio.
It would be convenient, whilst scrolling through a portfolio stack, to know in which sub-portfolio a particular investment is located. There is a field "subport" to insert but in my programme this gives me the portfolio name. "Subportacct" gives nothing.
Maybe you can help?
Thanks Matt
PS: I always wanted to ask: How do I delete to delete an investment or subportfolio? Is close and delete the same?

[Mark]

Hi Matt,

If you use [[SUBPORT]] that will display the name of the "Active" sub-portfolio for your graph window. This is the sub-portfolio selected under the top level "Portfolio" menu in a graph window. I suspect what you're looking for is a field that shows the name of the lowest left sub-portfolio containing the displayed investment? For example, if you have:

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- Master Portfolio
  - Acct 1
    o Investment ABC

and you have "Master Portfolio" selected as the Active portfolio, the SUBPORT field will display "Master Portfolio", and not "Acct 1". Are you looking for a way to display "Acct 1"? If so, that isn't an option today, but we can consider adding it.

Yes, "closing" an investment or sub-portfolio removes it from the program completely. It does not delete any investment files from your hard drive though, so you could potentially open them again later.

[Matt]

Hi Mark,

thanks for your reply. You've got it exactly right. When I scroll through graphs from a report list containing all investments in the Master Account I can get lots of useful info in the legend text of the graph but not the actual account it sits in. I think this would be a useful thing have!

About closing/deleting - I assume that means every investment *.dat file ever created with FM will stay on the hard disk unless deleted from outside the programm?

Thanks! Great program
Matt

[Mark]

Hi Matt,

Thanks, that would be a good new field to add... Yes, you are correct, no investment files are ever deleted from the hard drive from within the program.