Control Configuration Reference

Control Configuration Dialog Box

Name: type a text label for the control. If configuring an x or y axis, this label will also be used on the plot.

Type: select a control type: multi-select, step slider, continuous, or adjust epoch. Adjust epoch is only available when the control is added to the control panel.

Auto Fill Filter Table

Auto Fill Options: launches the Configure Auto Fill Options dialog allowing users to define a range of values and to control how values are filled in the spreadsheet.

Synchronize with plots: configures the control to automatically use whatever values are available for the defined event name in the active data set.

Datasets: displays the current data set including: path, tank, and block name.

Animation

Settings in this group are only available when the continuous or step slider control types are selected. These controls allow the user to view an animated playback of data acquisition.

Speed: select the speed at which data will be animated in the plot: slowest, slower, slow, normal, fast, faster, or fastest.

Overlap: select a percentage of the duration to overlap. For example: if the duration is 100, the initial starting point is 0, and the overlap is set at 10%, then the second segment displayed in the animation sequence will start at 90 (rather than starting at 100 if overlap is set to None).

Loop: select the check box to loop data animation. When all data has been displayed the animation starts over from the beginning.

Label Options

Units: select from common unit labels. This setting does not affect the data. It only affects the appearance of the control, making it easier to read and evaluate the analysis interface.

Precision: type a value to set the number of decimal places to display.

Spreadsheet

Row 1: header information

Rows 2+: filter data

Column a: text label for criteria

Column b: filter criteria

The spreadsheet increases the flexibility of the control configuration. The user can quickly include or remove values from the data set by selecting rows or enter arbitrary filter criteria.

Selecting Rows
Select rows by clicking row headers. Use Shift+Click to select adjacent rows and Ctrl+Click to select non-adjacent rows.

Select all/Clear all
Select or clear all using the select all button in the top left corner of the spreadsheet.

Entering Custom Values
Custom labels or criteria can be entered by typing in a cell when the AutoFill option has been turned off.

Configure Auto Fill Options Dialog Box

Available from the Auto Fill Options button in the Control Configuration dialog box, this dialog box allows users to define a range of values and to control how values are filled in the configuration spreadsheet.

Data Source

Type values in the Min or Max boxes to set a range.

Min: enter a minimum value for the range of filter criteria. Use -1 to use the minimum value present in the data set.

Max: enter a maximum value for the range of filter criteria. Use -1 to use the maximum value in the data set.

Minimum range: displays the range of the data found in the current data set.

Auto Fill Method

Click a radio button to choose one of the available auto fill methods.

None: turns auto fill off, allowing user to manually type filter criteria in the filter spreadsheet.

Fill with multiple values: fills the filter criteria spreadsheet with values from the data set using the defined range. The maximum number of values that can be used is 100 for multi-select controls or 500 for continuous and step slider controls.

Fill with linear bins: groups criteria values in a linear fashion by the number entered in the Bin box.

Fill with logarithmic bins: groups criteria values in logarithmic fashion according to the value selected in the Base box.