Sessions and historyWorking with sessions is now different. The major change made is that session is not related to an instrument anymore. Session, that could represent a test case, an experiment, etc. could include work with various instruments and when new session is opened, all items exchanged with instrument will belong to that session. It you don't care about session you can simply ignore it: select and establish connection with instrument and start use it.
We are planning in future releases to add importing, exporting, printing (with some per-formatting) of sessions that could simplify reporting, exchanging results with your peers or sending it to us to simplify debugging of found issue, etc.
To open a new session use the “Start session” when you give session a name. You don't need to open any instrument to start a new session hence it is opened from the Home page.
When opened, the session name will be displayed in the top right corner and info about newly opened session will be inserted into instrument “activity log”. The session will remain opened until “Close” option is not selected and confirmed.
The list of all sessions is available from “History” tab on the Home page (second from the top). If session list is not visible select icon on the top right, or Show/hide arrow on the window splitter:
Obviously the instrument session history from now on do not necessary include what is displayed in general history, and for accessing instrument history you have to open instrument tab:
USBTMC connectionA new USBTMC type of connection is added. Unfortunately this one is not so straightforward as serial or Telnet session. For Windows you have to create USB driver for your instrument, if you don't have it already. Fortunately that is not a big task thanks to Zadig. Just install and run it, select you instrument from the list and connected USB devices and choose “Install WCID Driver”.
On the Linux it seems that due to some kernel “bug” or whatever, it is not possible to establish connection with PC that has newer USB host controller (3.0?). For older one you probably have to follow the procedure that is nicely described here under USB connection section. We didn't check what's going on on Mac so far, so if someone of you have a chance to check it please let us know.
If USB driver is properly installed and recognized, USBTMC option will appear in the instrument’s list of interfaces and to open an USBTMC connection you have to specify instrument USB VID and PID:
When connection is established you'll get info about that in the instrument activity log and you can continue to work with instrument as in case of other connections (i.e. serial or Telent/Ethernet):
PDF previewIf PDF is uploaded into activity log it’s “thumbnail” will be now displayed:
Click on it and the PDF viewer will be opened with possibility to browse thru its content, zoom in/out and rotate page orientation: