Axis Scroll Bars turns scroll bars on and off for the axis

For trend views:

Key Display makes the legend key visible or invisible.

Key Position moves the legend key either to the left of the trend or above the trend.

5.4 Saving the View Properties (Process Eye Professional Only)

You have already seen that EasyView maintains one set of Barchart and trend view properties which are always applied automatically. Process Eye Professional allows you to create multiple ‘views’ and save them to disk so that you can apply them at run-time or to recipes when you create the recipe.

To save the new settings, check the save settings box. On a trend view this is at the bottom of the Time Axis page. On a swept measurement it is at the bottom of the property dialog.

Note: You need v 5.21 to do this for a swept measurement.

This will then bring up the Save View.

Type in a name for the view; by default the file that will store the properties is given the same name with a *.SI-v extension.

If you want to give the file a name that is different from the name of the view, click on the file Browse button and manually rename the file.

If you want a caption to appear on the graph as a title, type it in the Optional Screen Title text box.

If you want this view definition to be your default swept measurement or trend view, check the Save this view as the default view for its type checkbox. This is explained further in the following section.

Note: this feature is not available if your administrator installed the restricted user interface option.

Note: If you edit a currently existing view, and change the name in the Name by which this view will be known in the list of views text box, the file name will not automatically be changed to match the list name.

Unless you click on the File browse button and change the name of the file, you will overwrite the currently existing view that you are editing and the original view will be lost.

5.5 Managing Views Using View Manager (Process Eye Professional only)

View Manager is Process Eye Professional’s central view management system. All stored views can be edited, imported, or deleted through View Manager, regardless of their type or function. You can set one each of your swept measurement and trend views to be the default for their type. You can also create a new view for a specific purpose or recipe, although it is easier to create the view dynamically while acquiring data and then save it for future use.

The View Manager feature can be started from the Recipe pull-down menu and selecting Standard Views.

The other applications in the software suite (Recipe Wizard and Recall) have the same menu.

You can manage your views in any of these applications.

The Manage Views start page gives details of the current views registered in Process Eye.

To create a new view, click the New button.

5.5.1 Creating a New View

A swept measurement view can only be associated with swept data acquisitions e.g. Analog or Bar chart measurement. It cannot be associated with either a Peak Jump or a Leak Check measurement. A trend view can be associated with any measurement or collection of measurements.

The Manage Views start page gives details of the current views registered in Process Eye.

To create a new view, click the New button.

The Create New View Dialog appears.

Select either Create New View on a Swept Measurement or Create a new view on up to 15 … and then click the Next button.

This will take you through the View Creation Wizards described earlier.

However, since you are ‘off-line’, Process Eye does not fill in the current active scan information. You define your own channel or mass span information and the default measurements to use based on what you know of the recipe that will be used at run-time.

On the save page the wizard defaults to giving the filename the same name as the view name, but you can change this if you wish.

5.5.2 Editing a View in View Manager

Select the view that you wish to edit from the Manage Views dialog, and click the Edit button.

This will take you through the View Creation Wizards described earlier.

However, since you are defining a general purpose view, Process Eye does not fill in the current active scan information. You define your own

On the save page you can then either keep the same List Name and File Name, in which case the original file will be overwritten, or you can choose to either change the List Name or the File Name. Changing the names effectively creates a new view that was based on an existing one.

5.5.3 Importing a View

You can import a view from a different computer.

To import a view, select Import in the Manage Views dialog.

Browse to the view definition file (*.SI-v) that you want to import and click the Open button.

This will then take you through the View Creation Wizards as described earlier, but with the various settings already filled in with the settings from the imported file.

On the save page, you can either keep the same List Name and File Name, in which case a copy of the definition file will be generated in the Process Eye Professional\Views directory,

Note: If the file is already in this directory, then it will be overwritten or you can choose to change either the list name, or the file name.

5.5.4 Delete a View in View Manager

Select the view you wish to delete in the Manage Views dialog, and click the Delete button.

5.5.5 Setting a Particular View as the Default

One swept view and one trend view can be set as your default for that type. The Manage Views dialog shows which views, if any, are currently default. To select a view as the default, simply highlight it and click Set As Default.

When you define which views a recipe uses you can select that the recipe should use the default view. This will be the view specified in the Manage Views dialog. If no view is set as default, Process Eye will show a view with its own default settings.

If you want to change the default view from one registered view to another, simply highlight the new view that you want as the default and click Set As Default. The existing default view will be un-set. If you want to stop using one of your views as a default altogether (and revert to the built-in default view), select the view that is currently the default view for that type and click the Set As Default button again.