The Recipes Realtime View

The Recipes interface behaves as any other NanoScope Realtime view. To add the Recipes Realtime view to the list of Realtime views, go to Tools > Customize Views... and checking the box marked Recipes:

Figure 1: The Customize Views window

To add Recipes to the Workflow Toolbar:

• Click Experiment > Configure Experiment. This opens the Configure Experiment window, shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: The Configure Experiment window

• Click the Add RealTime Views button to open the Add Views window, shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Add Views

• Click OK to close the Add Views window
• Click OK to close the Configure Experiment window
• This will add a Recipes function/icon to the Workflow Toolbar as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Recipes in the Workflow Toolbar

You may also add the Recipes function/icon to the Workflow Toolbar by right-clicking on a parent node (e.g., Tapping in Air, Setup, Navigate...) and clicking Add View > Recipes, as shown in Figure 4.

Once Recipes has been added to the Workflow Toolbar, the recipes interface may be opened by clicking on Recipes under the list of Realtime views.

The Recipe Realtime view, shown in Figure 5, features two primary windows:

• Recipe node hierarchy, on the left
• Individual node details, on the right

Figure 5: The Recipe Realtime view

The node hierarchy, shown on the left in the window above, displays all of the individual steps that the recipe will take. When run, the recipe will execute the steps of the recipe in a top-to-bottom sequential fashion in the order shown in the hierarchy. The individual details and parameters of a selected node are displayed on the right.

Working in the Recipe Realtime Window

Parent/Child Node Relationships

A node that directly follows as a sub-step of another node is called a "child node" of a "parent node". Only certain types of nodes are available as "child nodes" of certain "parent nodes" in the hierarchy. See Allowed Parent and Child Nodes for a full list of allowable parent/child node relationships.

Professors

Some nodes have a Professor function available to help teach the parameters of the node quickly and efficiently.

Nodes may be cut, copied and pasted

Nodes that are copied and pasted take with them all of their child nodes. Thus a user can create a certain sub-hierarchy and the copy and paste it many times, significantly decreasing the time required to build large and complex recipes.

Nodes may be moved

Nodes may be moved from one position to another by dragging and dropping. A horizontal arrow will appear when two sibling nodes will exchange position with each other. A downward arrow will appear when a selected node is to become a child node of another node.

Menus

The File, Edit, Launch, and Help menus offer a range of commands for creating, saving, editing, and running recipes. See The Menu Bar for a list of menu bar functions.

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