Where are my Alerts?

[BlueMoon]

What happens to the "Alerts" that are created by the "Alert" block? Are they stored somewhere after clicking on it? They carry useful information for me especially the time of such alerts.

Is there some place where these alerts are stored so I can look at them? I do not see them in the "Alerts" tab on the MT4 termincal.

[timmyhanke]

@yalgaar

The alert message block sends your message to terminal alert tab and journal

[BlueMoon]

@timmyhanke said in Where are my Alerts?:

@yalgaar

The alert message block sends your message to terminal alert tab and journal

Thank for your reply. But I do not see my alert messages in the "Journal" tab nor I see it in the "Alert" tab of my terminal.

Could there be some settings in my MT4?

[timmyhanke]

@yalgaar

Have you used the alert block correctly?
And is your expert advisor running as it should, with a smiley face on the top right corner of the chart ?

[BlueMoon]

yes and yes.
my EA is running just fine with the smiley face. I am also getting the "Alerts" pop ups. But once I click on them...they are permanently gone. I want to find those messages. They are not in the "Alerts" or the "Journal" tab

[timmyhanke]

@yalgaar

I see , i dont know how to see the previous history of alerts in the alert tab , but look in your expert tab , is your alert messages printed there ?

[BlueMoon]

I don't see my Alerts in any of the tabs.....Journal, Expert or Alert tabs.

[fxDreema]

I tested this block and it looks to me that it works. But are your Alert blocks actually get triggered?

[BlueMoon]

@fxDreema Yes....My Alert blocks do get triggered. I do get the Alerts. But once I hit OK on it they are lost forever. I need the history of these Alerts.

My original question is where can I see all the Alerts that were triggered?

[BlueMoon]

can someone please help. I am still not finding my alerts.

[pffx]

Hi,
try this script, maybe helps you

0_1504121597020_Reopen-Alert-Window-Script.ex4 (this is a free script from the internet, it's not mine)

or you can create your own script :

int start()
{
Alert("");
return(0);
}

I think the Alert tabs is only for Alerts if you set Alert on the Price in MT4

[BlueMoon]

You are right. Triggering an alert will open the alert window which will show me the current alert as well as all the past alerts. This does help me. Thank you very much.

The question is still where are all these alerts stored? How and where can I access them without triggering a new alert?

[pffx]

Hi,
The alerts are holdings only in a memory during the MT4 session. After restart MT4 all previous Popup alerts are disappeared.
If you want to hold/save these information from alerts the better way is to use a local file(s) or send an e-mail.

[BlueMoon]

@pffx said in Where are my Alerts?:

Hi,
The alerts are holdings only in a memory during the MT4 session. After restart MT4 all previous Popup alerts are disappeared.
If you want to hold/save these information from alerts the better way is to use a local file(s) or send an e-mail.

Thanks for your help. What do you mean by use local files?

[pffx]

Hi,
https://docs.mql4.com/files/filewrite
or you can try to use fxdreema module

instead the Alert msg or you can use both of them depends on what do you want to catch...

[BlueMoon]

I think I figured out what you meant. You meant to use "write to file" block instead of "Alert" block

[pffx]

yes exactly