Let us have a look at ecFlowview, this provide the GUI for ecFlow.
On the unix prompt type ecFlowview.
Once the program is up:
Select “Preferences” from the Edit menu.
Next click on the Servers tab and enter details of your ECF server.
Choose a name for your ECF server and add the Host name and port number
you noted down earlier and press the add button.
You should get something similar to the following display :
The yellow boxes are called nodes. With the middle mouse button click on the node test.
For that click on the node t1, then press on the script icon. A window should open showing
the task script:
To see the ECF job or the output simply click on the tabs.
If you want to see the output in a different window, click on the output icon.
If we want to rerun the suite, move the mouse pointer over test and click on the right mouse button.
A pop-up menu will appear. Choose requeue (If the menu does not offer a requeue option,
select Preferences... in the Edit menu and set the User level to Administrator)
We have seen that ecFlowview uses the three buttons of the mouse to perform different actions.
The following figure show how the mouse buttons are used in ecFlowview:
What to do:
- Explore ecFlowview menus and windows