Starting a new, empty Data Browser

You can open a new Data Browser via the menu item
CSS/Trends/Data Browser

This will result in an empty plot window to which one can then add PVs. You can open more than one Data Browser instance.

Data Browser Perspective

Especially for first-time users it might be advisable to switch to the designated Data Browser Perspective, which results in a predefined arrangement of the plot window as well as a common set of related views (Navigator, Config, Archive, and Export):
Invoke the plot's context menu, typically by "right-clicking" inside the Data Browser plot, and select the
Data Browser Perspective
menu item.

If your screen differs significantly from the snapshow shown below, somebody has already customized the Data Browser Perspective. If you want to reset it, select the context menu of the perspective (right click on the "Data Browser" tab) and select "Reset".

Perspective

Stopping a Data Browser Instance

You can simply close a Data Browser Plot window via the usual icon in the window title bar or the context menu of the window title bar.

If the Data Browser configuration has not been saved, either because it was never saved, or because a saved confguration has been modified, you will be prompted with a dialog that asks you to either save the configuration or close without saving it.

The Workspace, "Project" Folders

All configuration files are saved in "Project" folders in the "Workspace". The CSS Application will create an initial "CSS" project folder for you. To create additional ones to better organize your files:
  1. Unless it is already open, obtain a "Navigator" view, accessible via the Menu
    Window/Show View.../GeneralNavigator
  2. Each top-level folder in that view is a "Project" in your "Workspace". Create new projects via the Navigator context menu
    New Project
    In the resulting "New Project" dialog, enter a project name.

Saving Data Browser Configurations

All configuration files are stored in "Project" folders, see previous section. In order to save files, one can use the "File/Save As.." menu. If the configuration has already been saved, the Plot window title bar will show the current configuration file name, and a "File/Save" menu allows saving changes to the current file name.

Re-loading a Data Browser Configurations

You open a saved Data Browser configuration by double-clicking on the configuration file in the "Navigator".

Creating a new, empty Data Browser Configurations

You can of course open a new Data Browser Plot window and then use "File/Save As" to save its configuration as shown above.

Alternatively, you can directly create a new, empty Data Browser configuration file like this: