Exporting and Importing Settings

Exporting Settings

TimeChart’s settings can be saved into a file, which can be imported in TimeChart’s next run.

To save TimeChart’s settings into a file, click on the Export Button below the Chart Canvas. This will bring up the Export Chart Data dialog:

TimeChart's Export Dialog

  • Under the Export Options list, select Chart Settings

  • Check the Include currently plotted PVs to save the current PVs into the config file if you want TimeChart to plot these PVs immediately the next time it runs

  • Check the Include current chart settings to save the rest of TimeChart’s customized settings

  • Click on the Export Button to select the location to save the file. The file will be saved in the JSON format, which can be viewed and edited in a text editor.

    Important

    It is recommended that you do not modify the config file manually as the JSON format can be error-prone. You should always create a TimeChart config file using the Export feature of TimeChart.

Importing Settings

There are two ways to import TimeChart’s settings from a config file:

  1. From the command line, use the --config-file {path_to_config_file} command line parameter:

    timechart --config-file ../config_files/timechart_config.json

or

timechart --config-file ../config_files/striptool_config.stp

  2. Alternatively, from the TimeChart UI, click the Import Button, and open either a TimeChart JSON config file, or a StripTool STP file.