Data Manager opens to the Data Sets tab, which we rarely need after initially seeting up data sets.
On the other hand, we need the Update Data tab daily.

It would seem to me, that the Update tab is the more logical choice for default.
All those extra clicks required to change to the Update tab, multiplied by roughly 250 trading days, times the number of WealthLab users could wear out several Mouse buttons, I would think ;-).

Suggesting "features" aimed mainly at customizing Wealth-Lab for herself/himself is rarely a good idea.

There's always someone who will think: the Update Data tab is a "set and forget" tab, once the providers are chosen and the daily update time is scheduled, I don't need to see it anymore. (Here we're not even considering the fact that opening a tab in the middle rather the 1st tab in a collection is not a good U.I. practice).

That someone will come here confused and telling that he has just "found a bug in Wealth-Lab" or realized that the default behavior has changed in an unexpected way.

And the cost of several computer mice -- let alone mouse buttons -- will be incomparable to the amount of time and effort lost on submitting a task conflicting with the design, rewriting the manuals, and supporting those confused users (who will be the majority rather than minority).

So, suggesting "features" aimed mainly at customizing Wealth-Lab for herself/himself is rarely a good idea.

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someone will come here confused and telling ...

Talk about getting confused. The category summary states:

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Let us know what you want to make this your ultimate trading system development tool!

So I suggested something I thought would make the program better, only to be told

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Suggesting "features" aimed mainly at customizing Wealth-Lab for herself/himself is rarely a good idea.

Aside from the above contradiction, the suggested feature might be implemented as a configuration option, that lets the individual user decide what tab to autoselect. The confused user then would not have made that change, and would not get confused. At least by this option.

As to treating the Update button as "set and forget", that ain't going to happen on my system until WL stops crashing from miscellaneous routine actions.

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[QUOTE]So I suggested something I thought would make the program better, only to be told

Suggesting "features" aimed mainly at customizing Wealth-Lab for herself/himself is rarely a good idea.[/QUOTE]
There's discernible difference between 1) ideas that make Wealth-Lab better (example: "introduce custom columns in Strategy Monitor" or "target .NET 4.0 platform to parallelize optimizations and get performance boost on multi-core CPUs") and 2) "tweaks/customizations" to the baseline functionality that can have undesirable effect on the large user base.

While we are thankful for the good ideas, over the years we've seen enough of each of the two groups to tell one from another.

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Aside from the above contradiction, the suggested feature might be implemented as a configuration option, that lets the individual user decide what tab to autoselect. The confused user then would not have made that change, and would not get confused. At least by this option.

Been there, done that, ended like this:



Overloading the program with unneccessary options contradicts the mission of Wealth-Lab 5's simplification effort.

What if you leave the Data Manager window open on the Update Data tab while WLP is running?

What if you schedule Auto Updates and even save the click to open the Data Manager?