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About Preset Manager

Introduction

The preset manager would enable the user to do the following - 

1. View available presets from the preset 

2. View any ECS file

3. Compare a Preset and ECS file for common devices & device variables

4. Edit a preset based on the ECS file

5. Save a new preset

6. Overwrite a new preset

7. Delete an existing preset

8. Execute a preset

9. Queue multiple presets for sequential execution.

The preset manager cannot do the following yet - 

1. Create a new preset from scratch

Parts & use of Preset Manager GUI

1. Main Tab

   1. Use this if you want to view, edit and execute single presets.

2. Preset Menu

   1. Drop down menu with existing presets.

3. ECS File loading section

   1. Navigate to an existing ECS file

   2. Press ‘Load ECS’ button to view it.

4. Control Table

   1. Use this window to view loaded presets and ECS files

5. Left Join

   1. This button would search the loaded ECS file and compare it with the loaded preset to find common device name and variables. You can then compare the preset and ECS values. An example for how it looks is below -

2. Because it is a left join, it would show all values in the preset, but only the common values from the ECS file.

6. Choose Values

   1. This button allows the user to pick values from the ECS file to replace in the preset. Once the values have been selected, the user would need to save it before they can execute it.

   2. The following popup window would appear allowing the user to pick values. The values in green are kept. Click on the ECS value you want keep. You can click on it again to revert to the Preset Value.

   3. Press done to keep the changes or reset to revert to the preset values.

7. Save Preset

   1. User can save the preset in the following ways - 

      1. Create a new preset

      2. Overwrite an existing preset

8. Delete Preset

   1. Users may delete the selected preset from the Preset list.

9. Execute Preset

   1. Users may use this button to execute the selected preset.

   2. If the user modified the preset, please save it before executing it. 

   3. The button would check if the devices listed in the preset are

      1. On or not

      2. Present in the experiment or not

   4. If either of the above is true, it will prompt the user to continue or stop the execution. 

10. Preset Execution Indicator

    1. This ‘LED’ indicates the status of the execution

       1. If it is red - there is an error

       2. Blinking yellow - It is currently executing a preset

       3. Light Green - It has successfully executed the requested preset

11. Active Preset

    1. This field would indicate and confirm which preset has been successfully executed. It would retain the last executed preset name.

12.  Preset Devices not in Experiment

    1. This field tells the user which devices in the loaded preset are not in the current experiment.

13.  Expt Devices Not On

    1. This field tells the user which devices in the current experiment are not on yet.

Using Queue Presets Tab

1. Preset Table

   1. This table lists all the available presets in the database.

   2. Double click the preset to add it to the queue.

2. Queue

   1. Displays the added presets.

   2. The order here is the order of execution of these presets.

   3. The next preset would not start if the previous preset failed to complete.

3. Reset Queue

   1. Resets the queue table to an empty state

4. Execute Queue

   1. The presets are executed in the order from the queue table.

   2. Each individual preset is executed as a single preset. The Execution indicator works like the individual case.

   3. Last successfully executed preset is indicated in the active preset box

5. Queue size

   1. Indicates the size of the queue

6. Current Preset Queue Element

   1. Indicates the preset being executed currently

7. Progress bar

   1. Indicates the progress of the queue

8. Preset devices not in experiment

   1. This gets updated based on all the devices in all the presets in the queue.