Using Fields Dialog

To view the charts corresponding to your measurements, you must select one or more Fields that contain the measurement / property data.

To access the field dialog:

  1. On the right pane, click Fields.

The Fields dialog appears.

The sections describe the various elements that are displayed in the Fields dialog.

Search

Use this area to perform a search for the field you wish to be plotted. This is helpful when you have several fields in a dataset.

In the Type part of the name: text box, enter the desired field name in part or full. One or more fields containing the entered text are displayed.

  • If a field name containing the matching phrase is within a folder or sub-folder, the entire file path is displayed.
  • If one or more field names containing the matching phrase has been used in several folders, only the top-level folder name appears in such cases.

Fields

Displays the fields or folders (and sub-folders) containing one or more fields, as shown in the image above. For each field, the corresponding data type is displayed below the name, which determines the chart to be plotted by default. See Plotting Data as Charts for more information.

  • Click a folder to access the fields or sub folders within.
  • Click a field to perform one or more actions related to plotting measurement data.

Actions

By default, as shown in the Using Fields Dialog image above, all elements that appear in the Actions area are grayed out. They are enabled when a field is selected either for plotting the data or to perform actions, such as filtering and splitting. See Performing Actions to Plot Fields for more information.

Exiting Fields dialog

Click on the top right corner of the dialog to view the Measurement Explorer or click one of the icons on the right pane to view the respective elements.