Utilities Menu

The menu items of the Utilities menu are described below.

Menu Items

Description

Calendar

Opens the Calendar window to check business days and non-business days for a given Holidays calendar.

Select a Holidays Calendar as applicable. The current day Today appears in red. Business days appear in white and non business days appear in gray.

You can use the calendar to calculate a number of days between two dates. Enter a start date and an end date. Select a Daycount and click Calc.

Day Diff is the number of days between the two dates with the given daycount.

Year Diff is the Day Diff equivalent with respect to the year.

Click Close when you are done.

Set Default Role

Opens the legal entity role selector.

Select the default role of the trade counterparty. Then click OK.

Configure Favorite Books

Allows specifying favorite books.

Select books as applicable and click OK.

Configure Favorite Templates

Allows specifying favorite templates.

Select trade template as applicable and click OK.

Configure Favorite CounterParties

Allows specifying favorite trade counterparties.

Select legal entities as applicable and click OK.

Selected CounterParty Info

Opens the Legal Entities Window for the selected trade counterparty.

Create Note

This menu item will appear provided the environment property ENABLE_TRADE_NOTES is set to true.

Opens the Create Note window that allows adding notes to the trades. When you re-open the trade, the notes will appear in front of the trade worksheet.

Enter the information as applicable.

Click Save to save the note.

Click Help for details.

See Creating Notes for complete details.

Show Notes

This menu item will appear provided the environment property ENABLE_TRADE_NOTES is set to true.

Displays trade notes after you have closed them.

When you open a trade, the trade notes will appear in front of the trade worksheet. Trade notes with the highest severity will appear first, then the medium severity, and finally the low severity. You cannot access the trade worksheet until you dismiss or close the trade notes.

Dismiss — Click Dismiss if you do not want a note to appear with the trade again. You will not be able to dismiss a permanent note, and you will not be able to dismiss a non-permanent note if you do not have permission to dismiss notes.

Close — Click Close to close the note.

See Creating Notes for complete details.