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Detailed Find/Filter/Color Window Chapter 13, Configuring Xgig TraceView
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Drag the template to one of the tab's display boxes and drop it.
Filter Groups
You can save the set of information you have applied to the
Find
,
Filter
, and
Color
tabs as a Filter
Group file. The Filter Group saves all information about which template is applied to each tab,
including any modifications to templates using the
Frame
,
Qualifiers
, or
Containing
tabs. The
Filter Group file can be recalled by opening it from the Detailed Find/Filter/Color window.
To Save a Filter Group:
1 Drag all templates you want to the Find , Filter , or Color tabs.
2
Make any modifications or name changes to the templates by opening the template and using
the Template Editor.
3
Select
Save...
or
Save As...
from the
File
menu in the Detailed Find/Filter/Color window.
Filter groups must have an extension of
.ffg
.
4
Name the new Filter Group file and press
Save
.
Open a Filter Group:
1
Select
Open...
from the
File
menu in the Detailed Find/Filter/Color window.
2 Find the Filter Group you want to display. Filter Groups must have an extension of
.ffg
.
3
Press
Open
.
Aliases (Name Replacement)
Sometimes it is useful to assign symbolic names to values you are analyzing that are customized to
your application or are different from the default settings. This is accomplished by assigning
names to values in the spreadsheet, creating an alias for this data type.
Aliasing only applies to the column type you set it in. It substitutes the aliased text in the display
for items that perfectly match (arithmetically) to values you are aliasing. Any value in a column
can be assigned a name. This feature is most appropriate for naming source and destination fields
like S_ID and D_ID. When an alias is saved for S_ID, it is also applied to D_ID. Aliases propagate
across all views, the events grid,
Exchanges View , and DWORD view.
Depending on if you have trace buffers or a file opened in TraceView, aliases are saved in three
different ways:
1
For trace files, aliases are loaded and saved in a file named TRACE_FILE_NAME.aliases in
the same folder as the trace itself.
2
For trace buffers, aliases are loaded and saved in the same global file for all trace buffers:
%APPDATA%\Viavi\Xgig Analyzer\last aliases.txt. This way, aliases for trace buffers are
remembered from one buffer to the next.
3 The Manage Aliases dialog has a checkbox. Use local aliases instead of the ones in trace
files
that is only visible for trace files. When this option is checked, trace file aliases are
loaded/saved in the same global file as for trace buffers. This way, the aliases are remembered