source: sasview/src/sas/guiframe/media/data_explorer_help.rst @ 6f10243

.. data_explorer_help.rst

.. This is a port of the original SasView html help file to ReSTructured text
.. by S King, ISIS, during SasView CodeCamp-III in Feb 2015.

Loading Data
============

Introduction_

Load_Data_

Handy_Menu_

Activate_Data_

Remove_Data_

Append_Plot_to_Graph_

Create_New_Plot_

Freeze_Theory_

Send_Data_to_Applications_

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.. _Introduction:

Introduction
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*Data Explorer* is a panel that allows the user more interactions with data. 
Some functionalities provided by the Data Explorer are also available through 
the context menu of plot panels or other menus of the applications.Under menu 
*View*  of the menubar, Data explorer can be toggled between Show and Hide by 
clicking the menu *Show/Hide Data Explorer* .

*IMPORTANT!*  When Data explorer is hidden, all the data loaded will be sent 
directly to the current active application, if possible. When data Explorer is 
shown data go first to the Data Explorer for the user to handle them later.

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.. _Load_Data:

Load Data
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To Load data, click the button *Load Data* , then select one or more (holding 
Ctrl key) files to load into the application. In the list, the *Data*  will be 
displayed as the name of each selected file. Expending this data by clicking 
the *+*  symbol will display available information about the data such as data 
title if exists.

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.. _Handy_Menu:

Handy Menu
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For a quick Data-info/Save/Plot/3d-plot(2d only)/Edit-mask(2d only), 
high-light the data/theory, right-click, and select a proper item from the 
context menu.

.. image:: hand_menu.png

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.. _Activate_Data:

Activate Data
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To interact with data, check a data label and click on a button. Checking Data 
make them active for the button operation. Unchecking Data labels will 
deactivate them.

There is a combo box labeled *Selection Options*  that allows to activate or 
select multiple data simultaneously.

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.. _Remove_Data:

Remove Data
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Remove data button remove all reference of this data into the application.

*WARNING!* Remove data will stop any jobs currently using the selected data.

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.. _Append_Plot_to_Graph:

Append Plot to Graph
--------------------

Click on the button *Append To*  to append selected Data to a plot panel on 
focus. Next to this button is a combo box containing available panels names. 
Selecting a name from this combo box will set the corresponding lot panel on 
focus. If not plot panel is available, the combo box and button will be 
disable. 2D Data cannot be appended to any plot panels . This operation can 
only be performed on 1D data and plot panels currently containing 1D data.

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.. _Create_New_Plot:

Create New Plot
---------------

Click on *New Plot*  button to create a new plot panel where selected data 
will be plotted.

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.. _Freeze_Theory:

Freeze Theory
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*Freeze Theory*  button generate Data from selected theory. This operation can 
only be performed when theory labels are selected.

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.. _Send_Data_to_Applications:

Send to Application
-------------------

Click on the button *Send To*  to send Data to the current active control 
page. One of the single/batch mode can be selected only for Fitting. The batch 
mode provides serial (batch) fitting with one model, i.e., fitting one data by 
another data. Note that only the Fitting allows more that one data to be sent.