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sg000

View Filter by Channel Values

Status: Under Consideration

Hello

Thank you for your request. R&D has read this suggestion and it will be included in feature planning discussions for future DIAdem versions. But because of the huge numbers of possible DIAdem extensions and the fact that no sponsors is supporting it, we gave this request a very low priority.

Greetings

Walter

In some advanced Data Visualization products, once you've created your views, you can filter out what is shown by selecting one of the channels and assigning filtering on that Channel. So suppose, I Chart A and B vs. C. I can then tell the chart to only show me data points where A is between 5 and 10. OR, even better, some allow you to show only A data points where D is between two values. OR, even better, if E is a category like "fruit" I can ask it to show me only the values of A that correspond with fruit channel E being "orange".

 

Excel accomplishes this by using the Autofilter on your data. Of course, it becomes global for all the charts that refer to that data at that moment in time, but at least it can be done quite simply.

 

The only two acceptable ways known to do this in Diadem are both tedious to set up and laborous to repeat.

1) Write what is probably a complex script to import the data in the first place. Every time parameters for the filtering change, the data must be re-imported. UGH!

2) Write a script to copy the data from main group to a sub group and the script performs the filter. Again, every time parameters for the filtering change, re-run the script. Nevermind the enormous coding time to create a flexible enough script.

 

I realize the end-user is probably different, but Tableau does an excellent job with visualization, and does this feature seamlessly.

3 Comments
MarcusP
Member

Hi sg000,

 

Since version 2015 DIAdem has so called "Event Search" functions in the Analysis module. By means of these you may be able to achieve what you are searching for. DIAdem still generates channels for the filter results but at least you're not required to script.

 

Marcus

 

sg000
Member

Thanks Marcus, I hadn't thought of the Event Search as a tool for this, but yea, thats a non-script path. If I'm creating the final data set to keep, sure, making a new set of channels would be the right way to go. But for daily data review and exploration, IMOHO its just too cumbersome compared to other methods I've used in the past.

Walter_Rick
NI Employee (retired)
Status changed to: Under Consideration

Hello

Thank you for your request. R&D has read this suggestion and it will be included in feature planning discussions for future DIAdem versions. But because of the huge numbers of possible DIAdem extensions and the fact that no sponsors is supporting it, we gave this request a very low priority.

Greetings

Walter