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Marks

A mark flags a moment in a test, tagged by a test program as it ran or by a person, live or later. Marks show on the Replay scrubber and charts; [ / ] jump between them.

Reading a mark

Shape says who made it; fill says whether it finished.

GlyphMeaning
▲ trianglefired by a rule in a test program
● circleplaced by a person
filledcompleted
hollownever finished

A mark is an instant (one glyph) or a span (a glyph plus an underline with end caps). A span that never closed, such as an aborted run, shows as a dashed band with no end cap, running to the edge of the window. A mark that ended in an abort is drawn in the alarm colour.

Crowded marks collapse into a count chip (12). Click it to zoom to that group.

On the charts, a mark shows only on the channels it is about. A mark about the whole run shows on every chart.

Filtering

The tags button in the transport bar counts the marks in the window and opens the tags drawer:

ControlDoes
show on lanesshows or hides marks on the charts. The scrubber always shows them
one row per name, with its count (pulse 14)its eye hides every mark with that name, on the scrubber, the charts and [/]
show allbrings back every hidden name

To find a mark by name over a longer window, open the tags tab in the left panel and type in Filter tags. Click a row to move the playhead there.

Marking a moment yourself

  1. Shift-drag the scrubber to select a range, or put the playhead on the moment.
  2. Press tag beside the clock (Shift-drag opens the form for you).
  3. Type a name in tag name (sample-taken, anomaly) and press Save. The form shows what it will mark: the dragged range, or at the cursor instant.

The mark appears once it reaches the cloud, usually after a short delay. Until then the row says tag saved — appears when it lands.

Note

Names starting sys. are reserved. Saving one is refused, with the reason.

The anchor — t = 0

Count time from the moment that matters instead of clock time. Alt-click any mark to make it time zero. A dashed 0 line appears on the scrubber and every chart. The clock adds a second line with the offset from that moment (-3.2s, +41.0s). The status row shows the anchor (t=0 start); its × clears it. The anchor lasts for the session.

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