User Options: Experiment Tab

To go to this tab, click the User Options button and select the Experiment tab.

You can make the following settings for experiments:

• Measure

  Opens the Adjust measure options dialog box in which you can make settings for the display of measurement values.

• Calibration

  Opens the Change of calibration options dialog box in which you can make settings for the display of variables.

• Support for big data recording

  Opens the Adjust Big Data Options dialog box in which you can make settings for the Big Data recording, see Adjust Big Data Options Dialog Box.

• Name alignment

  Defines how the variable names in the measurement and calibration windows of the experiment environment are aligned. In this way, the extra structural information in the names can be truncated and just the relevant name components displayed.

  Left	Variable names are left-aligned.
  Right	Variable names are right-aligned.

  Changes in this setting are applied immediately, also to existing instruments, after reopening the experiment or switching the layer in the Experiment Environment.

• Index alignment

  Changes in this setting are applied immediately, also to existing instruments, after reopening the experiment or switching the layer in the Experiment Environment.

  Defines how indices of vector or matrix elements are aligned in the measure variable name when the variable name is separated using full stop.

  Left	The index is left-aligned. Example: aaaa[1].bbbb.cccc.dddd
  Right	The index is right-aligned. Example: aaaa.bbbb.cccc.dddd[1]

  Note
  This setting only affects the variable name, but not the display ID. Display IDs are always written with the index right aligned.

• Index separated by underscore

  Defines whether an index with or without an underscore as separator is added to array and matrix sub-element names or not.

  Yes	Index with an underscore as separator is added to array and matrix sub-element name. Example: MyArray_[0].
  No	No index with an underscore as separator is added to array and matrix sub-element name. Example: MyArray[0]

  INCA divides measurement arrays into individual cells. Each cell is given an index. This option allows the adaption of the INCA array handling to individual workflows.

  This option affects the following components in INCA where the variable name is used: Experiment, LAB files, MDF files, Recorder Manager, Trigger Editor, Calculated Signals, and the COM API.

  If you change the setting of this option, INCA tries to convert used variable names of the measurement arrays. This allows previous experiments to be used with the changed setting.

  INCA changes the following artifacts stored in the experiment:

  Artifact	Adaption
  Signal name	Cell names
  Calculated signals	Measurement cells used as input
  Trigger signals	Measurement cells used as input
  Recorder	Measurement cells

  In addition to the artifact stored in the experiment, there are other artifacts that INCA cannot adapt:

  • MDF files

  • LAB files

  • Key Variable Lists (KVL)

  • Exports (Recorders, Triggers, Calculated signals)

  • Clipboard (copy and paste between objects created with different option settings).

  These artifacts should only be exchanged with the same option settings.

• Signal name for monitoring

  AUTOSAR description files contain both ISignal and SystemSignal names for elements used as monitoring variables.

  For ARXML files, the Signal name switching applies to

  • LIN Monitoring

  • CAN Monitoring

  • FLX Monitoring

  In the case of SecOC, you can switch in INCA the extension of the signal name by the PDU name between the name of the Secured-I-PDU and the name of the ISignal-I-PDU.

  Signal name: ISignal, Secured PDU name: ISignal-I-PDU
  Signal name: SystemSignal, Secured PDU name: Secured-I-PDU

  If the value is write protected, restart INCA to make the value editable.

  Previous INCA versions always use the SystemSignal and the Secured-I-PDU name for the above mentioned monitoring devices.

  Note
  Due to the change in signal names, Experiment elements can become no-match signals. Use the INCA-VN-Converter add-on to convert no-match signals.

• Adjust font in the variable views if the view size is changed

  Defines how the font size of variables is adjusted to the size of the measurement and calibration windows.

  Yes	The font size is adjusted according to changes in the size of the display window.
  No	The font size remains unchanged when the size of the window is changed.

  Changes in this setting are only applied to newly added windows; the setting has no influence on windows that are already open.

• View of search dialog

  Defines how the results of the variable search are to be displayed.

  By Structure	Displays variable sorted by layers and windows containing the variables.
  By Variable	Displays variable sorted by variable name. The layer and the display window containing the respective variable are also specified.

• Automatic start of data visualization

  Defines whether the measure data display is started automatically when you open an experiment if the hardware could first be initialized properly.
  

• Confirm page switch dialog

  Enables a warning dialog box in the Experiment Environment when you switch between working page and reference page of a device.

  Yes	Dialog box is activated.
  No	Dialog box is deactivated.

• Display variables of all subfunctions

  Defines whether the variables of the subfunctions are also displayed when a function is selected.

• Show functions in variable selection list

  Show functions in variable selection list.

See

User Options Dialog Box