Introduction

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 within the application.

Under View in the menu bar, Data Explorer can be toggled between Show and Hide by clicking Show/Hide Data Explorer.

NOTE! When Data Explorer is hidden, all 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.

Load Data

To load data, click the button Load Data, then select one or more (by holding the Ctrl key) files to load into the application. The name of each selected file will be listed. Clicking the + symbol will display any available metadata.

Handy Menu

Right-clicking on a loaded dataset (or model calculation, what SasView calls a theory) brings up a Handy Menu from which it is possible to access Data Info, Save the data/theory, or Plot the data/theory.

Activate Data

To interact with data it must be activated. This is accomplished by checking the box next to the data label. A green tick will appear.

Unchecking/unticking the box deactivates a data set.

There is also a combo box labeled Selection Options from which you can activate or deactivate multiple data sets.

Remove Data

WARNING! Remove Data will stop any data operations currently using the selected data sets.

Remove Data removes all reference to selected data from the application.

Append Plot to Graph

Click on the button Append To to add selected data to a plot panel. Next to the button is a combo box containing the names of available plot panels. Selecting a name from this combo box will move that plot into focus.

If a plot panel is not available, the combo box and button will be disabled.

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.

Create New Plot

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

Freeze Theory

The Freeze Theory button generates data from the selected theory.

NOTE! This operation can only be performed when theory labels are selected.

Send to Application

Click on the button Send To button to send the currently selected data to a perspective (for Fitting, P(r) Inversion, or Invariant calculation).

The Single/Batch mode radio buttons only apply to the Fitting perspective.

Batch mode provides serial (batch) fitting with one model function, that is, fitting one data set followed by another. If several data sets need to be fitted at the same time, use Simultaneous fitting under the Fitting option on the menu bar.