How can I create a customized welcome result window in STATA 14.

[Rukman Mecca]

I would like to see a welcome message every time I open stata. Pls, guide me on how to do this? Thanks

[Maarten Buis]

help profile

[Rukman Mecca]

Maarten Buis Thanks. I created a profile.do as mentioned in the help command. But display "welcome name" is not working. Any other command to write in profile.do

[Maarten Buis]

"is not working" tells us that you were expecting something and Stata did something else. That is not very much to go on... Can you tell us more on what exactly you did, and what exactly you expected that to do, and what exactly Stata did instead?

[Rukman Mecca]

Sorry for not being clear and delayed response. I created a file namad Profile.ado (the command I typed was display "my name, everytime I opens my stata window" in the path C:\Users\Rukman\ado\plus, expecting that stata will display my name everytime I opens a new window. Thanks in advance

[Ali Atia]

You need to specify noisy output:

noisily: di "your message"

This is because Stata executes profile.do quietly (the equivalent of hitting CTRL+R instead of CTRL+D in a do-file), so you have to explicitly override that. As a test, you can CTRL+R your profile.do file before saving it to make sure that the output is what you want.

[Rukman Mecca]

Dear Ali Atia, Thanks for the reply. I used the command in profile.do as you said. With Ctrl+R, I am getting my message as you said. I am facing two issues
1.When I open my stata, it is not searching for profile.do (I presumed this, because stata is opening as normal.
2. When I open my profile.do I am getting following message in Stata results window.

C:\Users\Rukman\ado\profile.ado
command C is unrecognized
r(199);

Pardon me if I am not clear. Thanks for the help

[Ali Atia]

You need to store it in C:\Users\Rukman\ado\plus, not C:\Users\Rukman\ado (alternatively you can put it in your home directory (usually C:\Users\Rukman), or in any other location on the adopath (e.g., C:\ado\personal). There is a complete list of potential places to put it in the helpfile). As to your second question, you can't open a do file by just typing its location. You need to specify whether to run it, do it, doedit it, etc.:

run "yourfile.do"

[Rukman Mecca]

Thank you Ali Atia for your prompt response.
I did a sysdir first.
Then I saved the profile.do in C:\Users\Rukman\ado\personal.
This is how my profile.do file looks like.
Attached my Stata results window also. Even after giving the run command as you said, it didn't start automatically the profile.do. Second thing the command itself is showing this error (when entering directly in Stata)

run "C:\Users\Rukman\ado\personal\profile.ado"
noisily: di "Dear Rukman, what would you like to do"

[Ali Atia]

Remove the first line (run "C:\Users\Rukman\ado\personal\profile.ado") That's telling Stata to run the program, which causes it to run the program, which causes it to run the program, etc., preventing it from ever getting past the first line. When Stata opens, it will run the program automatically. So just keep the second line with the display command and that should work.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Also note that you have named your -profile.do- with the -ado- file extension in your screenshots. It should be -profile.do- and not -profile.ado-.

[Rukman Mecca]

Thanks yo both of you Ali Atia and Leonardo Guizzetti , it just worked. First I removed run command from first line and then made Do file instead of ado extension. It worked perfect. Also I added cls before the display command, so that my screen is clear and just the display image.
Thanks a ton.