Studio Toolbar

Located ad the top of the screen, the toolbar contains all the essential buttons for managing the most important operations of Rulex Studio views.

To help users navigating through the toolbar, the buttons have been divided into 5 different groups, each one corresponding to the 5 different sections of the toolbar.

  • Explore resources: provides access to the Explorer.

  • General Operations: provides buttons corresponding to all the general operations which manage the corresponding component or primary resource. This part of the toolbar is present in almost all Rulex Platform components.

  • Presentation Operations: provides buttons corresponding to all the available presentation modes for the current view.

  • View operations shortcuts: provides buttons allowing to access all the operations which can be performed on the selected and opened view, as well as to all the computations occurring on Rulex Factory, which have been launched from the view.

  • User settings and manual search: present in all components, this section contains the user settings and provides direct access to Rulex Infopoint documentation server.

General Operations

The general section includes operations related to the whole Rulex Platform components or to the core characteristics of the primary resource managed in the corresponding component.

This section contains the following buttons:

  • pic1 The Full Screen button switches the software view to full screen view.

  • pic2 The Undo button rolls back the last operation performed by reaching the closest saving operation.

  • pic3 The Redo button cancels the previous undo operation.

The undo/redo operations are only available when a view is selected and opened on the stage window. They are applied to all the operations performed on the stage:

  • Addition/deletion of widgets,

  • Dragging operations on widgets,

  • Editing operations on widgets through the widget context menu.

  • save The Save button allows users to save all the modifications made to the view on the working database.

Warning

The Save operation deactivates the undo/redo buttons, as all the saved operations are made persistent on the view.

Presentation Operations

As in Rulex Studio it is possible to create and customize graphical representations of data to provide interactive presentations, this section of the toolbar provides the user with buttons to access the presentation mode.

The following buttons are provided:

  • pic4 The Start presentation button, allowing to start the presentation from the first slide.

  • pic5 The Start from current slide button, allowing to start the presentation from the current slide.

  • presentationsettings The Presentation settings button, allowing to access the presentation settings.

To know more about the presentation mode and the available interactions in it, go to the corresponding page.

View Operation Shortcuts

This section of the toolbar contains shortcuts to specific operations which can be performed through the view context menu, and are applied to the current view.

The following buttons are available:

  • pic6 The Export button, allowing to export the current view. To know more about the export view operation, go to the corresponding page.

  • pic7 The Preferences button, providing access to the view layout menu. To know more about this button, go to the corresponding page.

  • pic8 The Add versioning button, allowing to add the view to the git versioning system. For more information about the versioning on Rulex Platform, go to the corresponding page.

  • compute The Computations button, which opens the Computations summary panel. This panel contains a list of all the flows whose computation has been launched through an event. It is possible to close this panel by clicking on the x button. A more detailed description of this panel can be found in the box below. This panel can be accessed also in the presentation mode.

Note

The Computations summary panel contains the list of all the computations launched through any event in the view. For each computation, which is graphically included into a dashed rectangle, the following information is displayed:

  • The flow name, along with the corresponding task status icon (each icon is explained here) and a computation progress bar.

  • The Stop computation button, which allows users to stop the corresponding computation.

  • The Expand button, which opens the monitoring window, which displays the Factory stage while the flow is computing. The title and path of the flow is always displayed on top of the stage.

  • The Delete button, which deletes the computation from the Computations summary panel. This does not mean that the computation is interrupted, but it will not be visible in the panel.