There is a playback toolbar that you can use to do more or less an instant replay of any
process data that you've got stored. So for example if I go into--let's go to this batch
reactor here--I'm going to bring up this option called Toolbar Manager. This is where we found
our--this is the browser toolbar. You also find this replay toolbar--the "playback toolbar"
I should say, and within this what I can do is I can specify--well, I can do many things.
I can use this start time and end time here to actually control what I see as the start
and end time. There we go. And I can specify my options in here. Right now I'm looking
at a period of time that presumably is of great interest to you. Let's say this, you
know, this is the day the chlorine gas wafted out where it wasn't supposed to and everybody's
trying to figure out who to blame. So you zero in on this time and you say "well I would
like to see a replay of this at 10 min. intervals." By default this is going to be looking at
a lot more data than just this one day. So you need to go in there and specify what period
you're interested in. In this case let's go with, I'll go with, let's go back August say
of 2009. We'll go from the 18th for the start time to the 19 for the end time
and what I like to do--well, let's see if we can't, yeah, let's see if we can't play
this back at a rate of--I think the default here's 5 seconds let's go with one second,
and we're going to be at 10 min. intervals. So when I click on OK and I go ahead and play
this back what you'll notice is this is showing me a replay of all the dynamic objects on
here. Now let's make this a little bit bigger so that we can see a little better. Yeah,
see the dynamic objects are changing. We're essentially watching this in real-time. You
can't see it but--let me go ahead and pause. If I were to go in here in Build mode and
let's just make the--excuse me--wrong way around. Let's just make the font a little
bit smaller here. Let's go with eight point font-- there we go. By making the font smaller
now when I replay this we should be able to see this is incrementing in 10 min. intervals,
there we go, once a second and all of these are incrementing. Now maybe it's belaboring
the obvious but let's go in here in Build mode. I'll go ahead and stop my replay and
I'll add the timestamp at the bottom. Position that a little better. We'll go ahead and resume
the replay. We're seeing those 10 min. intervals we were talking about. So this is this nice
new replay bar. When I'm finished with that I can also use this to pick it up and move
it around as I choose. I can go back--let's go to a larger span of time here. Let's go
from August all the way to the current time. And that's in June. We'll go June 23. And
now if I were to pick this up and move around as you can see, there we go, I'm seeing much
larger groups of data and I can use this to zoom in or zoom out. There we go. So that's
controlled by what options you set up here. Let's go with, say, May to June.
And that gives us just yet one more way of looking at this in more detail. Now so far
we've been concentrating on the automated replay but in addition to the automated of
course you could if you, if you're interested--zoom in here--you can use this to go through this
manually and as I mentioned before all the elements on this display changing in response
to what you've done with, with this the playback toolbar.