Build a view once and reuse it on every run

After every run you build the same panels again, such as cell voltages, pack current and converter input. Save them once as a layout, and the next recorded run opens in that view with one click.

This guide runs on simulated data. Install the CLI shows how to start it.

A layout is the view without the data

A layout is a named copy of your tabs that you save on purpose: each tab, each panel's position and settings, the signals each panel shows, and their colors. It holds no data. Layouts save to Zelos Cloud, so your team can use them too. When you load one, the app asks the open data for the same signal names, so the view fills with whatever run you have open.

A layout drawn as a violet board of empty panels, beside a trace file that holds the recorded data.

Before you start

The Zelos app.

Step 1: Build the view

This guide uses two tabs. Pack has a Plot of the eight cell voltages and a Value panel with the pack current. Converter has a Plot of the converter's input voltage. Pick the right panel for each signal covers the panel types.

The Pack tab on live data: eight cell voltages over about three minutes, and a Value panel with the pack current.

Step 2: Save it as a layout

Press Cmd+J (Ctrl+J on Windows and Linux) to open the right sidebar, and choose the Data icon if another view shows. Layouts are the top section. Choose Save as new, type a name, and choose Save.

The person icon at the end of the name field sets who sees the layout: only you (the default) or your whole team. The toast reads "Layout saved", and the layout appears under Recent.

Save as new, a name, Shared, Save.

Step 3: Open a recorded run

Pause live data, measure a change, and compare two runs shows how to save a run as a trace file.

Close the tabs to get back to Home, choose Open trace, and pick a recorded run. The trace opens in one empty tab.

Step 4: Load the layout

Click the layout's name in Data. An amber dot beside the name only means the open tab differs from the saved view. The two tabs come back, and the panels fill with the recorded run.

One click turns the trace into the saved view.

Loading replaces your open panel tabs, without asking. Press Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z) to undo a load.

Step 5: Make one layout fit every run

A layout finds its data by signal name. That is why step 4 worked. Choose the pencil on a panel, then the Data tab. A signal you drop in while one source is open reads Any source, so it matches that name in any trace or on any connected agent. Pick one source in the same list to tie the signal to it.

The Edit Panel sheet's Data tab with the source list open: Any source is checked. — Any source fits every run that uses the same names.

The names must match exactly. A layout whose signals are named differently from your data stays empty. Set each signal to what your data calls it, or ask Zelos AI to move the layout to another source.

Step 6: Keep it up to date

Search Explorer for a signal, such as battery_level, and drop it on the Pack tab's Value panel. An amber dot appears beside the layout's name. The dot marks changes that the layout does not have yet. Choose Save above the layouts list. The toast reads "Layout updated". Nothing saves automatically. To keep the layout at the top of the list, open ⋮ and choose Pin; it moves from Recent to Pinned.

Search Explorer and drop the signal on the Value panel.

The amber dot marks unsaved changes. Save clears it.

Every save is a version. Open ⋮, choose Details, and click a version under History to see what changed. A version's own ⋮ menu names or restores it, and a restore adds a new version.

Details for the layout: Shared with your team, and two versions under History. The newest is expanded and reads 1 panel changed.

Limits

The Free plan holds one layout. Team and Enterprise have no limit.

Save your view now

Open Data, choose Save as new, and name the view you built today. The Layouts docs page covers sharing and version history in more detail.