Forms: Analysis Model View

An Analysis Model View An analysis model view shows a picture of an Analysis Model analysis model, or part of an Analysis Modelanalysis model.

Analysis Model Views views can include Datasources, Database Collector, File Collector, Streams, Alarm Generators, Database Exporters, File Exporters and FTP Sites. Models datasources, database collectors, database exporters, FTP sites, file collectors, file exporters, HTTP datasources, HTTP collectors, HTTP exporters and streams, which can be connected by pipes.

Model views can be saved, or built on request.

Note that all objects that appear on Analysis Models have a context menu entry "Show Models" which will display a list of all the models that contain that object.

Form: Analysis Model Details

The Analysis Model Details appears when you press Image Removed from the list of Analysis Models, to create a new Analysis Model. These details can also be requested for an existing model from the Analysis Model View pane - see below.

The model view details opens when you:

• Add a new model: right click on Analysis Models in the repository browser and select Image Added Add Analysis Model
• Open details for an existing model: select a model view in the repository browser and select Display

Form Icons

The form provides the standard form icons.

Form: Analysis Model View Pane

Models on request

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Model View Pane

The model view pane can be opened by right-clicking on an existing model in the repository browser and selecting Image Added Display.

Add new objects

You can drag any object from the menu bar of a model view onto the modelling pane. This will create a new object of this type. See the list of object types under 1570898232.

Drag on existing objects

You can drag objects that have already been created onto an Analysis Model View a model view pane. For example, if you want to include a Streamstream, open the list of Streamsstreams in the repository browser, select the Stream stream and drag it onto the pane. Similarly, objects can be added from the list of Datasourcesdatasources, File Collectors, Database Collectors, Alarm Generators, File Exporters, Database Exporters and FTP Sitesfile collectors, database collectors, file exporters, database exporters and FTP sites.

When you drag an object onto an Analysis Model View model view in this way, if this it linked (via one or more pipes) to other objects on the view, PhixFlow will draw in the links.

Form Icons

The form provides the standard form icons as well as the following: If an object dragged onto a model view is not from the same application as the analysis model a small application icon will be visible on the top left of the object's icon.

Model Toolbar Icons

Image Modified	The default mode for the cursor in the model pane is select. Pressing this button sets the mode to drag. Alternatively, while in select mode, keep the Ctrl key pressed on your keyboard, and with the left mouse button pressed move the pointer.
Image Modified	If you are in drag mode, pressing this button puts you back into select mode (the default mode when you open a new Analysis Model View pane). While in select mode, keeping the left mouse button pressed and dragging over an area of the pane, you can select several items in the model. Press the Alt key on your keyboard to include Pipes in the selection.
Image Modified	Organise selected objects in a grid.
Image Modified	Align all selected objects left.
Image Modified	Align all selected objects right.
Image Modified	Align all selected objects to top.
Image Modified	Align all selected objects to bottom.
Image Modified	Distribute all selected objects horizontally.
Image Modified	Distribute all selected objects vertically.
Object Types
Image Modified	Add a new Datasource to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new FTP Site to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Database Collector

HTTP Datasource to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

File

Database Collector to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Database Exporter

File Collector to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

File Exporter

HTTP Collector to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Stream with function Aggregate

Database Exporter to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Stream with function Calculate

File Exporter to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Stream with function Calculate By Set

HTTP Exporter to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new Stream with function

Cartesian

Aggregate to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new Stream with function

Merge

Calculate to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Alarm Generator

Stream with function Calculate By Set to the Analysis Model.
Image Modified	Add a new

Pipe

Stream with function Cartesian to the Analysis Model.

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By pressing this you get a slider which allows you to zoom out from the Analysis Model View pane. This is useful if you have a complex model and want to get a high-level overview

Add a new Stream with function Merge to the Analysis Model.

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Open the Analysis Model View details.

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Make a copy of the model and all its contents

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Export a copy of the model and all of its contents to an XML file so that it can be imported into another system (or saved as a backup)

Hover Menu

Context Toolbar

In the Analysis Model View pane a hover menu is also available for any object. To get this menu, move your pointer over the object and the hover menu will appear. The hover menu provides a number of the same buttons that appear in the menu bar, described above. It also provides the following buttons:

Image Modified	Make this object static.
Image Added/ Image Added	Disable/ enable this object.
Image Added	Bring up a list of attributes for the object. Attributes can be selected from this list and dragged into an attribute list window for another object, so this is useful when building new objects in the model.
Image Modified	Show the list of views configured on this object.
Image Modified	Show the list of Stream Sets for this object. This brings up the Stream Set

viewer.Image RemovedShow the list of Alarms that relate to this object. This brings up the Alarm

viewer.
Image Modified	Bring into the pane all objects in the model that are inputs to this object.
Image Modified	Bring into the pane all objects in the model that are outputs of this object.
Image Modified	Run the Analysis Engine on this object. All objects required to build the object selected will be run, but only these objects; so this may run Analysis on objects that are not in the pane, and Analysis may not be run on some of the objects that are in the pane.
Image Modified	Remove this object from the Analysis Model View pane. This does not delete the object from the underlying model in PhixFlow.

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Context Menu

If you The right-click menu on any object in the Analysis Model View pane a context menu will appear. Many of the options available are the same as those available from objects in a model view contains many of the same options as in the menu bar or a the hover menu, as described above. A few addition options are also available:

• Show Models: show a list of all the models that contain this object
• Copy Object: Create a copy of the object
• Export Object: Export a copy of the object
• Show All Predecessors: bring all objects that are used to build this object in the underlying model into the pane.
• Show All Successors: bring all objects that use this object in the underlying model into the pane.
• Rollback Stream/Alarms: rollback data in the Stream or Alarms generated by the Alarm Generator. This brings up the rollback Rollback form.
• Permanently Delete: permanently delete the object from the underlying model in PhixFlow. This removes the object from PhixFlow completely - only do this if you are certain that you never want to use this object again.

Model Pane Context Menu

If you right-click anywhere on the modelling pane a context menu will appear.

• Rollback Selected Objects: Rollback the data in the currently selected Streams and Alarm Generators.
• Copy Selected Objects: Create copies of the currently selected objects. Export Selected Objects: Export copies of the currently selected objects.
• Delete Selected Objects: Delete selected objects.
• Enable Selected Objects: Enable selected objects.
• Disable Selected Objects: Disable selected objects.
• Switch The Static Flag On In The Selected Objects: Switch the 'static' flag on in the currently selected Streams and Pipes.
• Switch The Static Flag Off In The Selected Objects: Switch the 'static' flag off in the currently selected Streams and Pipes. Merge Selected Streams: Create new Merge Stream in order to merge selected Streams and configure it.

Moving Model Pane

If some objects are not visible on the Model Pane (i.e. are positioned outside the currently displayed area), arrows will be displayed. Arrows indicate that there are objects outside the display area and allow the user to quickly move the Model Pane and display those objects.

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Keyboard support

If you are in select mode, there are keyboard commands available:

• Ctrl: Switch to drag mode (move the pointer with the left mouse button pressed) / Select multiple items (click left mouse button on items).
• Alt: Include pipes in selection.

See Also

• Forms