Storage

Storage allows you to store plot preferences, user-defined variables, filters, and test notes so that they can be applied to other data sets loaded later in the session.

You can open the Storage window from the Data Editor window in either of these ways:

• Using the menu Tools > Open Storage

• Using the toolbar button

The toolbar buttons Store Current Variables and Store Current Filters, Test Filters, or Test Notes allow you to put all user-defined variables and filters from the current session into Storage. They appear in the Storage window.

All stored user-defined variables and filters appear here regardless of which project is open — once created and brought into Storage, they remain there. If you do not delete them, they are there indefinitely. You can also store plot settings for multiple data plot views with the toolbar button Get Current Data Plots. All the toolbar functions are described below.

You can select Export to File to send the stored objects to a file. You might do this to move the objects to a different user or machine. Select Import from File to bring such variables and filters into Storage, and use Append Stored Object to add items from Storage to your current project.

You can edit the names of stored objects, by select-clicking as in Windows Explorer, or by clicking once and pressing F2.

Note that if you enter the data editor from a modeling node you cannot append variables or filters, as modeling data is read only.

The toolbar buttons in Storage allow the following functions:

• Export to File sends Storage objects to file so they can be sent to another user or machine. Objects remain in Storage indefinitely unless deleted; export is only for transporting elsewhere.

• Import from File loads Storage objects from file; it does not overwrite current objects.

• Append Stored Object appends the currently selected Storage object to those already in the Data Editor window. Double-clicking an object in Storage also appends it to the current session (except Data Editor Layout, which replaces all the current views with the stored layout). If you double-click an object in the left pane the entire object is appended. The pane on the right displays the details of the current object selected in the left pane (variables, filters, or plot properties). In the right pane you can double-click to add these elements individually. For example, you could add a single plot out of several, or a single variable. You can also hold down Shift to make multiple selections here.

  • Variables and filters will appear in variable and filter list views. Note that the views are not a requirement for appending variables or filters.

  • Stored Plot Properties (plotted variables, grid style, legend, line style, and so on) apply to multiple data plot views. If you have more than one multiple data plot view open, the stored plot properties are appended to the currently selected view (with the highlighted title bar), or to all views if none are currently selected. The plots stored in a Plot Properties object are added to multiple data plot views as additional plots — they do not overwrite existing plots. You cannot append stored plot properties if you do not have a multiple data plot view open.

• Store Current Variables creates a Storage object containing definitions of all current user-defined variables.

• Store Current Filters creates a Storage object containing definitions of all current filters. Similarly, Store Current Test Filters and Store Current Test Notes create Storage objects containing test filters and test notes.

• Store Current Data Plots creates a Storage object containing the current settings for multiple data plot views (variables plotted and styles for grids, lines, and legends). The settings are taken from the currently selected multiple data plot view. If there are multiple views and none are selected the settings from all the plots are concatenated into a single Plot Properties object.

• Store Current Data Editor Layout creates a Storage object containing the current settings for all the views. Saving a set of views and then double-clicking this object in Storage can be a very quick way to achieve a variety of plots and list views in a new session.

Delete Stored Object deletes the currently selected Storage object.

Creating Filters

Test Groupings

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