OTLoV navigation
OTLoV uses 2 trees to provide proper navigation and access - data tree and navigation tree.
Data tree is formed directly from source. The source log defines it. OTLoV doesn't try to add it it, rather to process and extract.
Data tree isn't always convenient to navigate. It's what you can see on the right side with Tree selected and any top-level element selected in navigation tree.
That's why it's complimended with navigation tree. Navigation tree is often built based on some attributes, like enclosure number, reporter, type of event and so on and allows to better group together data.
The other function of navigation tree is to limit what you see. Selecting any element in navigation tree - you will see only things related to that element.
Let's start from scratch and load MSA logs from Test folder. Once loading is finished - we can see root navigation element only:
If we select it - we will see full data tree on the right-side with Tree tab active:
It's not very useful or convenient this way.
Now, let's see what navigation tree has by expanding it. Let's say we are interested in enclosure FRUs, so we'll select this item after navigation root element expansion:
If you are still on Tree tab - you can note that data tree became much smaller with only enclosure-fru elements. This is one of purposes of the navigation tree - to limit visibility.
Now, let's keep the navigation tree selection at enclosure-fru and switch over to Values tab:
Now we can see the same text data, but in tabular format, without needing to go into every individual subsection, aggregated over all enclosure-fru elements.
NOTE: OTLoV allows to copy data into clipboard. Select what you want and press
Ctrl + CorCtrl + Ins. Then paste copied data wherever you want, to MS Excel for example.
NOTE: You can reorder columns by dragging (not preserved) and you can sort data by clicking column headers (not preserved).
Ok, but what if we want to see the source, or to filter to our needs? Let's switch to the Source tab:
You can see individual blocks of source text there, from which actual structure was created. Source tab has a filtering capability. Also note a floating status with number of block and a number of lines visible / available. This status changes as you apply filtering and allows to measure results.
Feel free to explore further.
See next: Filtering
