Overview

ecFlowUI provides rich facilities for viewing tasks' scripts, jobs and job output. Although their usage should be fairly self-explanatory, some details are given here.

To see this information about a node, either right-click on the node and choose one of the options from the context menu such as "Output ...", "Script ..." or "Job ...", or create an Info Panel - information for the selected node will appear there. The script, job and output tabs have much in common, so most of the information below is true for them all.

Header strip

At the top of these tabs is a shaded area which provides information about the file being viewed, for instance its size and how it was retrieved (e.g. straight from disk, from a log server or from the ecFlow server).

To the right of this is a toolbar, providing common buttons to control the following:

• to change the font size, click on the two 'A' buttons; alternatively, hold down the CTRL button whilst moving the mouse wheel
• to bring up the search bar, click the magnifying glass
• to go to a particular line in the file, click the magnifying glass/123 icon

All these buttons contain tooltips, providing further information about their keyboard shortcuts.

Searching for text

The search bar allows for powerful text searching within the viewed file.

The start of the search bar is a verb, representing the search type:

• Matches is a wildcard match, similar to UNIX file syntax, where "*" means "any number of any characters" and "?" means "one of any character", e.g. "*monitor?". If no wildcard characters are used, the result will be that only those nodes whose names/paths exactly match the string will be found. This is often the simplest way of searching. See http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qregexp.html#wildcard-matching.
• Regexp is a regular expression match, using the Qt regexp syntax. The regexp equivalent of the above example would be ".*monitor.". See http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qregexp.html#introduction.
• Contains finds strings which contain the given regular expression as a substring; similar to Regexp, but can find more matches since the regexp only needs to match a substring rather than the whole string.

The spanner icon to the right of the search bar provides more options to customise the search.