You can create folders under each interface. Particularly for interfaces with lots of modules, folders can help to gain clarity by arranging modules in a folder structure. For instance, you can use folders to collect input signals which have the same technological context while originating from different sources. Or you organize the signals according to their origin or properties, e. g. text signals, computed signals etc.

Create folders

You can create folders by clicking on the blue link "Click to add module..." or via the context menu on the interface node. You can create sub-folders too.

A new folder initially gets the name of the interface or of its parent folder. However, you can rename any folder individually.

Existing modules can be moved into the folders by drag and drop.

By using the context menu on a folder you can directly create a module in that folder.

Remove folders

If you want to remove a folder which contains modules, a request pops up. Here, you can decide whether to remove the folder including its modules or just the folder structure. In the latter case the folder will be deleted and the included modules will be moved to the parent folder or to the root level of the interface.

Copy folders

You can copy folders and their sub-folders you have created for one interface to other interfaces. Thus, you can easily transfer folder structures you've created once to other interfaces.

Make a right mouseclick on the folder you want to copy and choose Copy folder... in the context menu. A dialog opens where you can select one or more target interfaces. When you click on <OK> the folder or the folder structure will be created under the other interfaces, still empty. You then can assign the desired signals to the folders for each interface by drag and drop.

Use folders in the group view

Folders and sub-folders which you created in the Inputs or Outputs tabs, are automatically available in the Groups tab. Hence, your preferred structure is available with the groups immediately. However, folders with the same name and structure level from different interfaces will be combined to one group folder. For instance, a folder which was created under three interfaces appears only once in the Groups tab containing the signals of all three interfaces.

You can disable the listing of the folders in the Groups tab for each folder. Just select the folder in the interface tree of the I/O Manager and remove the checkmark at Show in groups.

Folders in the signal tree

If you switch to the "Show groups" mode in the signal tree pane of the ibaPDA client then you see the signals in the same order like in the I/O Manager's Groups tab.

Folders in analysis

The folder structure you have created in ibaPDA will be stored in the data files or ibaHD-Server data storage.

If needed, the folder structure is available in ibaAnalyzer for data files as well as for HD queries.