Graph ► Tools
Tools operate on Tasks and are implemented as sheets accessed by clicking a toolbar tool icon. The following sections describe Tools.
Tool | Description |
Tasks | Brings forward the tasks selector. Tasks are organized by data type and are described in the Tasks section. |
Project | Brings forward the current project's editor. |
Projects | Brings forward the projects sheet. Data and preferences are stored on a project basis and you can define new projects or remove projects as needed. You can also set a project to the current project. Only the current project's data, preferences and skins are used by the tasks. |
Export | Click this tool icon to export the current task's graph to Graph Builder for further layout and to use the full power of Graph Builder. |
Use this tool to print the current task's graph. The print layout is set to fill the page while maintaining aspect. If you need finer control of the graph layout then first export to Graph Builder, modify the document layout size (for example to the size of the print page) and then modify the graph as needed. | |
Data | Use this tool to set basic data-related attributes. |
Task Edit | Use this tool to set task interface attributes. |
Preferences | This tool brings forward the current task's graph preferences. When these preferences are not sufficient then you can use Skins or export to Graph Builder. |
Fetch | This tool is used to define Fetch parameters. Fetch is used to acquire external data and insert it into the current project and chart task. |
Text | The text tool is used to show and edit data using familiar textual data methods. |
Data | This tool is used to define basic data parameters. |
Skins | This tool is used to define skins for the graph of the current project, task and data representation type. |
Info | This tool shows the key value pairs (dictionary) that generates the graph displayed in the task. |
Help | This tool shows help for the current task. Help is built into the Tasks, however this manual provides much more extensive descriptions of Tasks. |
Customize | Use this tool to customize the toolbar. For instance, to add the Skins tool or remove the Help tool. |