Saving SharpCharts
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Your customized SharpCharts can be saved into ChartLists - online "folders" that allow you to store up to 1000 charts in a single list. ChartLists allow you to group and organize your collections of saved charts for easy access. Read on to learn how to save your SharpCharts to ChartLists from the SharpCharts Workbench.
To save a brand new, never-been-saved chart to a ChartList, click the green Save button above the chart on the SharpCharts Workbench.
Since the chart has never been saved, you will be prompted to choose which ChartList you'd like to add it to. A suggested Chart Name is provided, but you can change this name if desired. Toggle open the Advanced Options if you'd like to add comments to the saved chart. Click the "Save New Chart" button to save the chart.
Note: Extra and Pro members can select which ChartList they want the chart to be saved to, but Basic members have only one ChartList to choose from.
Once the chart has been saved, it will appear in the ChartList and Saved Chart dropdown menus above the chart. You can see the chart we just saved to the "* My Watch List *" ChartList with the custom name of "My Costco Chart" is shown in the dropdown menus. In addition, the Save button will change to grey, indicating the chart is saved and has no new changes to the chart settings since it was saved.
If you want to view the comments you saved with the chart, those can be seen on the Chart Comments panel below the chart:
When you make a change to the chart settings of a saved chart, the Save button will change from grey back to green, to let you know there are unsaved chart settings for the chart. In the example below, we changed the chart to use the Spruce color scheme.
To save these changes to the chart in your ChartList, click the green Save button. A small window will pop up allowing you to optionally change the chart's name or comments, in addition to the chart settings changes. Click the green "Save Chart" button to save the changes.
This will overwrite the existing saved chart with the updated chart settings (in this case, the updated color scheme).
Note: Changes made to the chart settings while you are viewing it in the SharpCharts Workbench are not automatically saved to the chart on the ChartList. If you do not go through this process to save the updated chart to the ChartList, the next time you view the ChartList, you will still see the old version of the chart.
Once you've saved the chart to a ChartList, you may have noticed a second "Save As" button appears above the chart. This button allows you to create a new copy of the chart in a new location, while leaving the original saved chart intact. To do this, click the "Save As" button above the chart.
In the small window that pops up, choose the ChartList where the new copy should be saved, enter a chart name, and optionally enter chart comments. Click the green Save New Chart button to create the copy.
Cool Tip. If you want to save a duplicate version of a chart to the same ChartList, use the Save As option and keep the ChartList dropdown selection as-is. Simply alter the chart title so it is not the same as the already saved chart, then click the Save New Chart button. You can save duplicate charts to the same ChartList as long as the chart titles are different.
In some cases, you may want to move the original chart to a new location, rather than creating a copy and leaving the original chart in place. In this situation, you can click either the Save or Save As button, then switch to the "Move Chart" tab at the top of the small window that pops up. Choose the new ChartList you want to move the saved chart to, and optionally update the chart name or comments. Click the green Move Chart button to move the chart.
