Scan Operation Panel

Picture of the Angle Scan panel

Introduction

The Scan Operation panel replaces the Edit Multiple Scans panel as an interface for editing several scans at once.  The panel allows editing of the major parts of a scan description for one of more scans stored on the server.  

Note that changes are not rigorously validated or checked to ensure proper functionality.  It is therefore up to users to ensure that any changes they are applying will not cause problems with the scans to which the changes are being applied.

Opening the Scan Operation Panel

To open the scan operation panel, go the Resource manage panel by choosing Resource Manager from the Window menu. Select all of the scans you wish to change parameters for by holding Control and selecting them, or holding Shift while dragging the mouse across a continuous list of scans. When you have selected all of the scans to be edited, right click on the list and choose "Edit Scan Parameters," as shown below.

Opening the Scan Operation Panel

Components of the Scan Operation Panel

  1. Target Scans

    At the top of the panel, the target scans for the scan operation are listed.  Each of these scans will have the operations specified applied to them.  If Q component ranges are specified in the Change Scan Ranges section, then each of these ranges must contain a Q range, or the scan operation will fail.

  2. Change Scan Ranges

    In the middle of the Scan operation panel is a set of controls to allow editing of ranges in scan descriptions.  To enable operations on ranges, click the checkbox next to “Change Range(s)”.

    If a range is specified for a device which already has a range specified in a target scan description, then that range will be replaced; otherwise a range will be added.

    If you have entered range changes, when you click "OK", some simple validation will be done to make sure that you have entered values for necessary fields. If there are errors, an error message will pop up and no scan operation command will be sent to the user. Note that the validation done is mimimal. Even if no error pops up for a scan operation, the values sent may cause an error with the command which prevents it from being successfully executed, or may cause problems with your scan.

  3. Property Changes

    At the bottom of the Scan Operation panel, other fields in the scan description can be changed.  To change a field, select the checkbox next to it and put in a new value.

Results of the Scan Operation Command

Results of the command can be viewed in the Console window.

See Also

  • Scan Operation Command Documentation

  • Scan Description documentation on Command Scan documentation page