This page assumes you have a version of EcflowUI that you can run; either one that you have built yourself, or one that has been installed system-wide.
Starting EcflowUI
The command to start it is:
ecflow_ui
Starting EcflowUI for the first time
When starting EcflowUI for the first time, the application contains an empty tree view:
The first thing to do is to populate it with servers.
Go to the Servers menu; this should contain all the servers that you have configured for Ecflowview (these are copied over once, when you first start EcflowUI; from then on, the two lists are not synchronised).
Selecting a server will add it to the tree view. For large servers, a Loading indicator may appear, but the user interface is still responsive.
Once loaded, a server appears in the tree view. Server and suite nodes show, in brackets, the total number of children under them. Any number of servers can be added.
Viewing the tree
The tree nodes are expanded and collapsed using the small icons to the left of each node (these may vary in appearance depending on your workstation setup). The middle mouse button does not serve this function anymore!
At the top of the tree is a set of breadcrumbs, showing the hierarchy up to the currently-selected node. Clicking on a node in the breadcrumbs will select the node in the tree.
To see information about the currently-selected node (such as output, script, variables, etc), click on the Add info panel button in the toolbar at the top of the window.
The information panel appears at the bottom of the window.
The information panel can be detached and frozen using the configuration menu at the top-right of the panel:
Layout
Each panel in EcflowUI is resizeable and detachable. For example, drag the information panel to the right of the tree view to get an arrangement like this:
Or drag it completely out of the window to detach it like this:
