NVGate Ribbons: Preferences

User group

NVGate operates with users’ preferences and authorizations. Personalized profiles can be memorized and recalled while starting the software.

A user profile contains:

• Default display preferences (colors, scale type, mode, units, etc..)
• Saving modes (default name, incrementing, confirmation mode, data protection and visibility)
• Waterfall (view, default reference, colors, extractions, filling and type)
• Marker (colors, limits, interpolation)
• Report colors palette
• Units for each physical quantity
• Export modes
• Floating/docked windows location and visibility

By default the user is named ’Default user". User

The user profiles are saved in a file called NVGate.usr located in the NVGate.exe directory. This file is automatically created at NVGate start when it is absent. Attention: deleting the NVGate.usr file delete all users’ preferences including the default setting proposed by OROS.

It is possible to temporary change .usr file for special applications. To start NVGate with .usr different from the default one (NVGate.usr) add the following to the command line: -usr=myfile.

Users management

The User group allows managing NVGate users’ profiles.

	User button: It allows selecting the current user. Attention: changing from one user to another one will reset the current NVGate analysis configuration to the default one defined by the new user.
	User button Part2: It allows creating and deleting users from the active .usr profile files.
	New: Used to create a new user

Create a new user

First name: First name of the user may be left empty. The first name is automatically formatted so that the first character is in upper case and the others are in lower case letters.

Last name: Last name of the user must be filled in. The last name is automatically formatted in letters.

Password: If selected, the user will have to enter his password to launch NVGate.

Access level

-Full: The user is not limited within NVGate^

-Restricted: The user is not authorized to access to all the functions of NVGate. The main characteristics of this type of user are:

Authorized actions	Unauthorized actions
Create measurements Modify settings from the Control Panel Execute macros from the control panel Load projects from a predefined list Print reports; Move markers	Save a project Close or modify the windows Modify the settings in the ASB Use the toolbars that have not been authorized by the administrator

• Administrator: Allows Switching to a non-restricted user profile for administration of the current restricted user rights. In this case the current analyzer setup is not modified.
• Password: Used to change the password. If necessary, the user must enter his current password and then enter the new password twice

Warning: Due to the GUI modifications, the restricted user profile limitations do not apply on NVGate version 7.00 and further until new notification. It is possible to run NVGate7 with the Legacy V6.00 interface to benefit from the restricted user capabilities. For such purpose runs NVGate7 with the following parameter: -legacy'.

Preferences group

These buttons provide direct access to the user’s preferences.

The user’s preferences are gathered in one unique dialog with multiple tabs. Following buttons provide direct access to the user’s preferences:

	General: Enter the preferences setting at the 1st tab. It allows customizing the scales font size, the refreshing speed as well as default specialized modes.
	Properties manager: Open the measurement properties setup. This tool allows managing the default and user defined properties. These property values are saved with the measurement and used to qualify it. Later, they may be incorporated into reports and for search functions.
	Units & Quantities: Open the "Physical quantity" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows creating, modifying and removing the units and physical quantities used by the NVGate interface. Reminder: NVGate process SI units. The selected Units are used for display only, the data are not modified by the units changes.
	Marker: Open the "Marker" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows changing the appearance and the number of the different marker types.
	Graph: Open the "Graph" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows changing the appearance of the different graph types.
	Window: Open the "Window" tab of the user’s preferences. It allows changing the appearance of the windows, their default arrangement, the number and style of the cursors.

See User Preferences for details.

Transducers group

This group manages the transducers database which is used by NVGate to automatically setup the inputs and trace front-end status at measurement time.

	Database: Opens the transducer database saved on the computer.
	Merge: Merge multiple transducer databases into one. The merged .cdb is the one currently used by NVGate (file: TransducerDB.cdb located in the NVGate.exe directory)
	Export: Allows exporting the current database (file: TransducerDB.cdb located in the NVGate.exe directory) in csv format.

See Transducers and calibration for details.

View group

	Workspace: show/hide the workspace window that contains the Analyzer Setting Browser (ASB), the Project Manager (PM) and the Control Panel (CP).
	Log window: This window tracks all changes in the analyzer. Logs are arranged in 3 separate tabs: Analyzer settings: Display all users’ and dependencies related changes in the ASB. Warning: Displays dynamic warnings related to the current setup (for example: A & C acoustic filters are no more available when the sampling frequency is lower than 25.6 kHz). Raising a warning will automatically show the log window during 3 sec. Macro trace: log window for macro execution and debugging.
	Status: Displays the current status of the plug-ins (see chapter 1 ASB for details). General statuses are displayed in the bottom status bar, the Status window is made to show advanced status for accurate control of the acquisition/analyses. To add the statuses in this window, right click in the selected plug-in and select View states.