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  • Customization of Main Toolbar
  • Main Menu with all panels
  • Favorite panels
  • Lock trading
  • Workspaces manager
  • Favorite connections
  • Notifications center
  • General settings
  • Time & Time zones
  1. General Settings

Quantower Main Toolbar

Get to know how to use and manage Main Toolbar that is a starting panel of all platform

Last updated 7 months ago

Main Toolbar — is the main starting point of the platform, used as a launcher and informer simultaneously.

Main Toolbar technically is a panel, but behaves something differently: it can be dragged among your screens (if you have more than one) and it will be always stuck at the top of the screen. It adapts own width up to the screen width and it participates in the workspace, meaning, that other panels can be stuck to it.

In this guide you will learn about the next functionalities:

Due to the fact that Toolbar is the main controlling panel it has the ability to collapse all platform’s interface by clicking the “Minimize” icon. This action makes all application panels collapse to the taskbar and literally disappear from your screens; it affects all panels on all screens.

The “Close” icon just closes the platform. You may set up the “not to ask to confirm the closing” setting in the pop-up screen while the first closing.

Customization of Main Toolbar

For optimal use of the space on the Main Toolbar, we have added the ability to display/hide some controls. For example, to hide the Timezones, Workspaces, Connections, etc., Right-click on the context menu and go to the View section. By clicking on the ticks, the controls will appear at the Toolbar.

Main Menu with all panels

All of the panels are placed in the “Sidebar” screen, which is popping out once you click the Logo icon on the toolbar. The Main Menu consists of panel icons, grouped by functionality. Actually, in this menu, you can find all panels.

Each group in this menu can be collapsed to make the panels list cleaner. From this place, you can open any panel by left-clicking on its icon. Each group has its color to help you determine the functional assignment of each panel.

The footer of the Main Menu contains several functions:

  • “About” link: opens a screen with information about platform (version, rollback, updates checker etc.). If the system detects the new version of Quantower, the “NEW VERSION” button appears instead of this link;

  • “Exit” button closes the application.

The list of links in footer can contain more or fewer items, depending on current application requirements.

Favorite panels

You might already have seen the Star icon in the right top corners of some panels tiles in Sidebar. This is the “Favorite panels” functionality, allowing you to select the most usable panels and place their icons on the Main Toolbar.

The way to use it is very simple — hover over the right top corner of any panel tile in Sidebar and click the Star icon that appeared. That is all: a panel appears in the Favorite panels bar in Main Toolbar. To remove from favorites just click the activated Star icon on Panel's tile or right-click on the icon in Favorites panel and select “Hide from toolbar”.

Lock trading

If you would like to prevent manual trading operations occur, you may use the “Lock trading” button on Main Toolbar. Once clicked it displays the confirmation message that trading is locked and all of the functions, related to the opening or closing orders and positions will be disabled. Unlock trading can be done the vice-versa way.

This feature is useful in case you would like to only analyze the market or while editing your workspace (mostly to avoid misclicks).

Workspaces manager

Workspaces Manager allows you to see, create, edit and delete your working environments as well as lock their modification. It is represented with the special icon, that opens the list of available Workspaces once being clicked.

The currently active workspace is marked with the color and has a blue dot on the left side of its name. You can switch the current workspace by left-clicking any of the available items from the list. The bottom part of the list (after the separator) consists of actions, refer to the currently active workspace and allow to:

  • Lock — disables an ability to add, remove, move or resize any panel in current workspace;

  • Rename... — invokes a pop-up screen where you can set up a new name for the current workspace;

  • Create new — opens a pop-up screen with the new workspace creation form.

When creating the new workspace, you have an ability to specify its future name and select whether it should be Blank, once created, or should contain some predefined panels set.

You can also remove any of Workspaces by clicking the “Trash” icon on the right side from Workspace name (icon appears while hovering the name).

Favorite connections

To show some connection on this bar, you need to click a “Star” icon at the right side of connection name in Connections manager panel. Click once more, and the connection will be removed from Favorites bar.

Being added to the Favorites bar, each connection will be displayed as a tile, containing some vital info:

  • Connection name

  • Status text (can be a status message or Ping time in ms when the connection is active)

  • Status Dot, is a visual representation of connection status. Can be grey (disconnected), yellow (connecting), green (active).

You can remove a connection from Favorites by right-clicking on it and selecting “Hide from toolbar” item. Here you can also ask to connect or disconnect.

Notifications center

General settings

Time & Time zones

The list of active connections can be seen on the Main Toolbar in Favorite connections block. By default, you will see several items here, each representing one of the available connections. The screen will be opened by clicking any of the items in Favorite connections block.

Most actions during the platform use generate various notifications. There can be system notifications (some connection problems or errors) and Deal tickets.

The “Gear” icon opens a general settings screen, where you can set up the most common parameters of our terminal. screen are available in the corresponding section of this documentation.

The Time bar is also displayed on the Main Toolbar toolbar showing you time in the selected timezone. By default, your local timezone is used. You can change the time zones list by clicking the "Gear" icon and then select the required ones in . You may also select several time zones and they will appear as a list in a drop-down panel, allowing you to switch among them quickly.

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Connection manager
More info about Notifications center
More details about the Settings
How to customize the Main Toolbar
Main menu with all panels
How to add Favorite Panels on the Toolbar
How to Lock Trading
How to create and manage your Workspaces
Managing trading connections
Sidebar with all Notifications
Platform's General Settings
Time & Time Zones
Create and save your workspace in Quantower
General settings screen
Quantower Main toolbar
Right click on the Main Toolbar will bring up the addtional settings window
Main menu in the Quantower platform
Favorite panels
Lock Trading Icon
All trading buttons are locked
New workspace creation window
Add favorite connections by clicking the "Star" icon
Access to general settings
Switch between your favorite timezones