Replaying Your Snapshots

When analysing your data using the Graf-FX launchpad, it is possible to save your drilldown graf as a snapshot using a button with a camera . This snapshot is simply a Microsoft Access form that has a Microsoft Access Graph object, the query that shows the data that you are interested in visualising and a text box that is utilised for the graph titles.

The snapshot replay form can be opened from the Main Menu using the button displayed above or using the Graf-FX toolbar with the Camera Button or by opening the form called "z_snapShots". This show a form that looks as follows

This form allows you to set up collections of graf forms that have different drilldown queries associated with them and have a graphical design that is suited to that data. To see how this form replays old data, Click on the following Button

This shows a Graf with an associated query in a separate Access form. Now return to the Snapshots Window and click on the following button that closes all the open grafs

When the Graf opened, it showed the results of the Query with the data in the state that it was in when you last ran the Graf in a live mode. The snapshot album allows you to replay the grafs without re-querying your data. This is designed to save time and system resources. To see the current live data, click on the following button . Now click on to show the grafs with "Live" data.

You will see that a combo box with a number in it appeared to the right of the of the Fuel Tank icon as follows This combo selection tells the snapshot re-player the first graf in the collection to replay first. If you select 4 then forms numbered 4 till the end of the collection will be shown with forms 1 to 3 being excluded. The snapshot replays will only show 3 grafs at a time for Microsoft Access 2 and 9 grafs at a time for new versions of Microsoft Graph.

Now the grafs that you have saved in Graf-FX can be organised into Album collections. Use the following buttons to show and manage the different collections of grafs.

You will see that the second collection of grafs has more than one graf in it as follows

Select the at the top of the Snapshot form to setup your own Album collection.

Now you can enter the name of the collection, its description and select the Grafs that you want to replay. An example of this follows