New Features
This documents many of the new things you can do in New XINA.
Miscellaneous Features
- Hints: In the very top right is a ? button. Click it to show help for many things on the page. If there are new things to read, the button will be yellow.
- Followed Walls: Walls work like they used to, but there's a new "Follow" button at the top right of any wall. Posts to any followed wall will give you a XINA notification and show up in your feed on the home page or through the Notifications interface.
- Emails: Team Admins can send emails to members through the Teams page, under the top bar's "System" dropdown.
- Notebook Activity: On the home page, the "Notebook Activity" card will list recent posts from all Notebooks.
Profile & Preferences
In the very top right, if you click on your name, there are a number of new controls available.
- User Profile: In your user profile, you can customize your display name and preferred email.
- Access Keys: The User Profile "Access Keys" tab allows you to create and manage API keys.
- User Preferences: If you open your "User Preferences", you can customize your XINA experience. "Style" allows you to customize the background. "Palettes" allows you to view and customize the colors automatically applied to series, and includes colorblind-friendly options. "Charts" lets you customize almost every shared presentation aspect of XINA charts. If you use multiple XINA for multiple project, there's also an interface to import and export preferences through a button in the top right.
- Clear Cache: Within the User Preferences, the "Cache" tab allows you to clear XINA's local data, if needed.
Old Tools
While most new tools do not map one-to-one to old tools, those listed here reimplement or combine functionality from old tools, but also offer new enhancements.
Events
The Events tool is similar to the Alerts, Marker Log, Marker Log Trending, Message Log, and Message Log trending tools.
Mnemonic Plot & Mnemonic Trending
The Mnemonic Plot and Mnemonic Trending tools are similar to all of the old Housekeeping tools, and also the Laser tool. The difference between the two is that the Mnemonic Plot looks at a single interval of time, and the Mnemonic Trending can look at multiple distinct intervals. Beyond that, their functionality is mostly shared.
Spectra Viewer
The Spectra Viewer is most similar to the old MOMA Science Trending tool, but has been made flexible enough to handle use cases from most of the other science tools.
Diagram Viewer, Simulator, & Editor
The new Diagram tools was designed to replace the old MOMA Diagram, but in a much more flexible way.
- Any vector image can be uploaded, hooked to XINA data, and provided with presentation logic, allowing any user to create their own diagrams like the original MOMA Diagram. Many different diagrams and dashboards can be created.
- It's also much easier to edit or re-draw existing diagrams. The old MOMA Diagram was out of date; it's now much easier to correct that.
- The logical rules can be derived from mnemonics, events, or other logical rules, allowing for fairly complicated events.
- Based on those logical rules, many different visual effects can be applied: modifying border or background colors, a highlight, blinking, text modifications, or filling in numeric mnemonic values.
- The Diagram Simulator, instead of using real data, allows you to enter a simple "Sequence File", simulated data in a hand-writable format.
- Along with the diagram, you now get a configurable chart showing any state or mnemonic values.
New Tools
Many tools are entirely new.
Mnemonic Export, Mnemonic Trend Export, & Packages
The Mnemonic Export and Mnemonic Trend Export tools can configure and kick off export processes, ideal when dealing with too much data to view in the browser. These export products can contain CSV data tables and PDF plots, and can be configured to generate automatically on a schedule or when new data is received.
The Package tool allows you to browse these export products.
Nominal Range Export
The Nominal Range Export tool allows you to manage and export nominal ranges. The main interface is an editor for creating or editing nominal ranges, and through the "Export" button in the top right you can export selected nominal ranges in one or more mission-relevant formats.