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Presets Manager

The Presets Manager provides access to all the presets stored within the site and a variety of actions to be performed on them.

Generally, the main view shows the list of presets and some direct manipulation and action can be performed on this list. Additionally the modifier panel shows information and actions that can be performed on the selected presets.

Presets List

The bulk of the view contains a scrolling ordered list of the existing Presets and Preset Groups in the site. The top level item in the list may be Presets or Presets Groups. Each Preset Group can contain any number of Presets but no Preset Groups. Thus Preset Groups only support a single level of hierarchy (Preset Groups cannot be nested within other Groups).

The list has order from top to bottom so sequential operations can be performed.

Items can be drag and drop reordered at the top level, without changing the hierarchy. Moving a Preset Group keeps all the contained Presets within it.

Presets can be drag and drop re-ordered within their Preset Group and from one Preset Group to another.

The Preset list features the following column headers:

  • Number (Index - this is purely the index assigned by site manager to give order to the list)
  • Name

Preset Action Buttons

Hovering the cursor over a Preset will show buttons that can affect the Preset:

  • Recall - Recalls the Preset changing the corresponding controls with the values stored within
  • Update… - Updates the Preset with the current state of the currently stored parameter values. A Pop up confirmation dialog will be shown.
  • Delete… - Deletes the Preset. A Pop up confirmation dialog will be shown.
  • Duplicate… - Creates a duplicate Preset as the next item in the list. It will have the same name + “ copy” appended to the end and all the same stored control values.

Preset Group Action Buttons

Hovering over a preset Group will show buttons that can affect the Preset Group and thus all Presets contained within:

  • Recall - Recalls all the presets within the group. Presets are recalled top to bottom sequentially although the time between each preset is essentially zero so it feel instantaneous.
  • Update… - Updates all the contained Presets with the current state of the currently stored parameter values. A Pop up confirmation dialog will be shown.
  • Delete… Deletes the Preset Group and all the Presets within the group as well. A Pop up confirmation dialog will be shown.
  • Duplicate… Creates a duplicate preset group as the next item in the list. It will have the same name + “ copy” appended to the end and all the same enclosed presets with the exact same name and the same stored control values.

Toolkit

The toolkit will have two elements that will look like modules:

  • New Preset Group - Creates empty Preset Group
  • New Preset - Creates empty Preset

Dragging either element over the the Preset list will show an insert point indicating where it will be inserted when the mouse is released.

As with reordering, Preset Groups can only be added to the top level list; they cannot be dropped within a preset group. Presets can be dropped anywhere.

Releasing the mouse will create the corresponding element at the location dropped in the Preset list.

Modifier Panel

The modifier panel will show additional information about the selected Preset or Preset Group. Only one element in the list may be selected at a time; there is no multiselection.

Preset Group

The modifier panel will show additional information about the selected Preset Group:

  • Properties
  • Name - Name for the Preset Group
  • Remote Enable - Checkbox to enable remote access to the Preset Group from the Remote API.
  • Remote Name - Name with which the preset group will be accessible from the Remote API.
  • Recall and Update for Presets and Preset Groups can be triggered from the Remote API.

Preset

The modifier panel will show additional information about the selected Preset including the contents of the Preset. This is split across two tabs:

  • Properties
  • Name - Name for the Preset
  • Remote Enable - Checkbox to enable remote access to the Preset Group from the Remote API.
  • Remote Name - Name with which the preset will be accessible from the Remote API.
  • Recall and Update for Presets and Preset Groups can be triggered from the Remote API.
  • Controls
  • List of controls stored in the selected preset. Each item shows the value of the control stored in the preset and the controls current value. For each level, a set of hover controls will be shown.
    • Remove “x” - Clicking will prompt for confirmation to remove the level (and all leaves below) from the preset.
    • Update Presets - Updates the Control to the current value for the selected preset