Activate or Deactivate a Variable

On the Variables Configuration tab, you can activate or deactivate variables.

To design an experiment in which many variables are being used more clearly, you can deactivate variables. Deactivated variables are hidden in the experiment.

Note
Deactivated variables no longer fill the assigned raster.

To deactivate a variable:

Remove the check mark in the Active column of the desired variable.

The variable is hidden from the experiment.

Note
If the check box is grayed out, the variable cannot be disabled. One possible reason is that the variable is used in trigger conditions, as process point, or as digital-analog converter. If you are using an experiment with layers, you can easily see on the layer tab at the bottom of the Experiment window whether the layer contains inactive variables: If the layer contains both active and inactive variables, then the icon is displayed next to the layer name. If it contains only inactive variables, then the icon is displayed next to the layer name. The tooltip of the layer tab provides additional information on the inactive variables.

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If the check box is grayed out, the variable cannot be disabled. One possible reason is that the variable is used in trigger conditions, as process point, or as digital-analog converter.

If you are using an experiment with layers, you can easily see on the layer tab at the bottom of the Experiment window whether the layer contains inactive variables:
If the layer contains both active and inactive variables, then the icon is displayed next to the layer name.
If it contains only inactive variables, then the icon is displayed next to the layer name.
The tooltip of the layer tab provides additional information on the inactive variables.

Place the check mark in the Active column to enable the variable again.
The variable is once again shown with the same settings in the same measure/calibration window in the experiment.

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You can also activate or deactivate all variables of a layer at once by right-clicking on the layer in the tree view and selecting Make variables active or Make variables inactive from the context menu..