Test control
Chart displays
The Display Views panel is a workspace for creating charts to display live channel data while the test is running.
To create the first chart, select the desired channels from the Channels list. To add a new chart, drag a channel into an empty area of the Display Views panel. A dialog opens showing a list of available chart types. See Selecting a display type for more information.
Add channels to an existing chart by dragging a channel onto the chart window or by clicking the chart window to make it the active window and selecting channels from the Channels list.
Deselect all channels in the Channels panel to empty a chart. Save the Test Setup with the empty chart in the Display Views. An empty chart may be imported into another Test Setup. For more information see Managing display views about Import... below.
To add a digital meter containing all test channels (up to the current maximum of 100), click the Show All Channels in DVM button at the top of the Channels list.
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Change chart options including the size in User preferences. Change the decimal places for each channel in the Input channels spreadsheet.
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Chart display views can be configured before a test run is started and also while a test is running. When a test is running the user should pay attention to the CPU load indicator on the status bar to understand how much additional processing load is being consumed to drive the live displays. This can be significant and there is the possibility that the CPU will overload and the system will reset on error. The system is designed to preferentially disable the live displays when the CPU load is too high, but this functionality may not always work.
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The actual rendering of the chart displays is done on the client device (for example, on a PC or tablet). For most modern client devices with high processor or graphics accelerator speeds, the client device will usually not be a factor.
However, for reasons beyond the scope of this help topic, the web browser used can be a significant factor. As of the present software version, the user is strongly advised to use one of the recommended browsers. For more information, see Recommended browsers.
A related issue is antivirus software running on the client device. Using HTTPS will minimize the likelihood of antivirus software negatively impacting display capabilities. For users who are not connected to the Internet, disabling antivirus software should be considered.

The Display Views panel can contain many different display views, each with its own named tab. Left click, drag and drop a tab to move it. Tab positions are saved. Different views allow for a variety of chart types, sizes, locations and channels. Display views can be created or modified at any time.
To manage views, open the views menu by clicking the menu button () or right clicking in the Display Views panel.
- New View: Create a blank view tab. Alternatively, click the plus (+) tab to the right of the existing view tabs.
- Save View: Save the current display view. To save all views, click the save button (
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- Save View As: Duplicate the current display view and save it under a new name.
- Rename View: Rename the current display view.
- Delete View: Remove the current display view. Alternatively, click the "x" on the view tab.
- Import...: Import charts from a selected Test Setup. All charts in all tabs are imported from the selected SXR file. Display views are saved immediately when charts are imported. If a tab is selected in the Display Views, charts are imported to a newly created tab. A tab without a chart on it will also be imported.
- Cascade Charts: Cascade all display views in layers from left to right, first to last manipulated display view.
- Tile Charts: Fit all display views as tiles in the Display Views panel.
- Delete Charts: Remove all display views. Alternatively, click the "x" on the view tabs.
- Revert Unsaved Changes: Undo dialog selections made since the last save.

To change the size of a chart, double left-click in the header bar of a chart or click and drag a corner or edge of a chart. Vertical and horizontal scroll bars show on the Display View after a chart is made larger than the Display View. Make a Display View wider by clicking the left-pointing arrows in the Task and Channels panel headers. There are some special rules for charts that are frozen. The size of a video display may be changed while frozen. When other charts are frozen during a test, their size may not be changed. If any chart remains frozen when a test ends, its size may be changed, but the plot will no longer show.

- Freeze All Charts: Select the snowflake button to pause live data displays.
- Unfreeze All Charts: Select the defrost button to resume live data displays.
Chart types
- Strip chart: Plot of one or more channel as a function of time.
- Single channel digital meter: Digital display of a single channel value.
- Multi-channel digital meter: Tabular digital display of multiple channels.
- Analog meter: Analog gauge display of a single channel.
- Spectrum chart: Frequency domain spectrum plot of a single channel.
- X-Y plot : Plot of one channel on the Y-axis vs. another channel on the X-axis.
- Min/Max tracking of multi-channel digital meter with alarms: Digital display of minimum, current and maximum data values for each channel. The minimum and maximum values are tracked from the start of the test run unless they are reset by the user. Warning and alarm level exceedance indicators are provided on a per channel basis.
- Interactive trigger chart: Display an interactive trigger channel as an interactive chart.
- Video display: Display of current frame of a single video channel.