Using the Manage Inspections window

The Manage Inspections window on the GainSeeker Inspections window serves as your springboard for designing a new inspection or performing other actions for existing inspections. You can run these inspections on a:

You can also publish an inspection to both device types.

 

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The Manage Inspections window

Accessing the Manage Inspections window

The Manage Inspections window can be accessed from the GainSeeker Inspections module. See Opening the GainSeeker Inspections module

Publishing and verifying publication of an inspection

You can use the Publish... button to publish an inspection, verify whether an inspection is published, or to remove it from use. An inspection you create using the Inspection Editor must be "published" (not just saved) before it can be used to run an inspection. Publishing is a quick and simple process.

Testing and Debugging an inspection

You can use the Run button on the Manage Inspections window to run an inspection directly from the GainSeeker Inspections module. This can be useful for testing how an inspection that you are designing will perform during the actual inspection process. Optionally - if your inspection includes Python formulas, you can use the Debug check box to run those formulas in the Python Debugger.

To run an inspection from the Mange Inspections window, select that inspection and then click Run. If you have saved changes to that inspection after it was last published, GainSeeker will give you the option to run the earlier published version or to publish your saved changes and run the latest version of the inspection.

Creating a new inspection

Before creating a new inspection there are a few tasks you must perform. For more information, see Prerequisites to creating an Inspection

To create a new inspection, click the New... button on the Manage Inspections window.

Editing an inspection

Use the Edit... button to open an inspection you want to edit. You can make changes to the inspection using the Inspection Editor and then perform various actions for the inspection using right-click menu such as saving and publishing changes. You can publish it now or later.

Copying an inspection

Click the name of the original inspection in the Manage Inspections window list of available inspections. Then, click the Copy... button.

Copies of published inspections are not published until you take that action. For more information, see Publishing your Inspection.

Importing a copy of an inspection

Use the Import... button to import a copy of an inspection to your system from a file you specify. The imported inspection must have been created using the Inspection Editor.

When you import an Inspection that uses Device Profiles or Python Scripts, these items will also be imported.

Exporting a copy of an inspection

Use the Export... button to export a copy of an inspection to a file.

Each Device Profile used by the inspection will be included in the file.

Each Python Script used by the inspection - including the folder structure for the script - will be included in the file.

Archiving Scripts

You can archive (back up) the current version of the all of the scripts used by an inspection. (For more information, see Archiving Python Scripts.)

To do so, select the desired inspection and then click the Archive Scripts button.

GainSeeker will prompt you to enter an optional Archive Message, where you can enter a note about this version you are archiving. (You will not be able to change or remove this Archive Message later.)

After clicking Save for the Archive Message, GainSeeker will display a list of the scripts that were archived.

Using the "Show locked..." inspections button

The Show locked... button is used to determine if any inspections are locked to prohibit editing by some users.

Limit the Inspection to specific Users

Use the Assign... button to designate which users and groups have access to a particular published inspection.

Tip: To assign many Inspections to one user, launch the GainSeeker Utility module and click Assigned Inspections.

Deleting an inspection

To delete a published inspection from your system: