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Chapter 13, Configuring Xgig TraceView Detailed Find/Filter/Color Window
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from one trace file to the next. When the option is unchecked, then the trace file aliases are
stored as explained in Step1 above.
You can modify the .aliases file for a trace in a text editor. You can also copy the .aliases file from
a trace to another trace. Use the Enable Aliases button in TraceView’s main window menu bar to
enable or disable all aliases within a trace.
Use the Enable Aliases button in TraceControl’s main window menu bar to enable or disable
all aliases within a trace.
To Quickly Assign an Alias:
1
Right-click the column value you want to alias.
2 Select Set Alias .
3
Type the alias text in the field.
4 When you exit the field, all other values in the column that match the original text will be
changed to the alias.
If a column has multiple fields, only the first field (or the last if the column is right-aligned) will be
aliased.
Using the Manage Aliases Editor to Assign or Modify an Alias:
1
Right-click the column heading, and select
Manage Aliases...
, or select
Manage Aliases
from the Tools menu. The Manage Aliases Editor for the column you selected appears.
2
Select the field you want to alias.
3 Select the value to alias.
4
In the
Alias
field, type the name you want to add. Press the
Add\Replace
button.
5 Click the Save button to save all the changes you made in the Manage Aliases Editor.
The
Aliases Enabled
check box affects all aliases in the trace just as the
Enable Aliases
button in
the menu bar.
As stated above, the
Use local aliases instead of the ones in trace files
check box is available
for trace files, not for trace buffers. When the check box is checked, the Manage Aliases dialog
content is refilled from the global alias file %APPDATA%\Viavi\Xgig Analyzer\last aliases.txt
and aliases will be loaded/saved to that file from now on. When the checkbox is unchecked, then
the aliases are loaded/saved to a TRACE_FILE_NAME.aliases file next to the trace file itself.
The following options are available from the File menu:
• Import Aliases... : to import aliases from an .aliases file in text format.
• Export Aliases... : to export all the current aliases to an .aliases file in text format.
Additional menus are available for trace files when the option
Use local aliases instead of
the ones in trace files is unchecked:
• Import Local Aliases : To import the aliases from the global alias file
%APPDATA%\Viavi\Xgig Analyzer\last aliases.txt.