# Settings and profiles

You can store your favorite options in Settings and Profiles that apply to specific procedures. Settings and profiles are visible in the Experiment Explorer. Except for Experiment Settings and Manual Scoring Settings, you can store multiple settings for different situations, for example different Trial Control settings to acquire trials of different durations.

To view the settings used in a trial

1.Choose Setup > Trial List.

2.Click the Show/Hide button on the toolbar and select Variables.

3.Choose the type of settings you want to view.

4.The settings column is added to your Trial List. For a specific trial, the column shows the name of the settings used to acquire the data.

5.In the Experiment Explorer, open that settings profile.

Profiles that have been used to acquire data are marked with a lock symbol (see below).

To create a new settings/profile

1.Right-click the corresponding folder in the Experiment Explorer and select New.

2.Type the name for the new profile or accept the suggested name, then press Enter.

To activate settings/profiles

In the Experiment Explorer, right-click the settings/profile you want to activate and select Set as Current.

Active profiles are highlighted in blue in the Experiment Explorer. Activating means that EthoVision XT uses that profile to carry out a procedure. For example, when acquiring the data it uses the Arena Settings active at that moment. When calculating statistics, it uses the active Track Smoothing profile.

To open settings/profiles

Right-click the settings/profile you require under the corresponding folder in the Experiment Explorer and select Open.

Opening settings/profiles also means that those settings/profiles are activated.

To edit settings/profiles

To edit settings/profiles, open them (see above) and then make the necessary changes.

When at least one trial has been carried out, the Arena Settings, Trial Control Settings and Detection Settings used for that trial are locked. Locked settings are marked by a lock symbol in the Experiment Explorer.

You cannot edit locked settings. If you want to make changes to those settings, make a copy (see below) and edit this. Then, make sure that you carry out the next trial using the new profile.

If you delete all trials acquired with specific settings, those settings are unlocked, so you can edit them.

To copy settings/profiles

Do one of the following:

▪Open the settings/profile folder in the Experiment Explorer. Right-click the name of the settings/profile you want to copy and select Duplicate.

▪From the Setup or Analyze menu, select the type of settings/profile you want to copy. In the window that opens, select Duplicate from. Change the name of the new settings/profile if necessary. Next, select the settings/profile you want to copy from.

Result: A new item is added to the folder. Type a new name or accept the suggested one, then press Enter.

The suggested name for a new settings/profile is [Settings/Profile] N, where N is the first integer not yet used in the name of the other settings/profiles in that folder.

To rename settings/profiles

1.In the Experiment Explorer, right-click the name of the settings/profile you want to rename and select Rename.

2.The profile name is highlighted. Type the name you require and press Enter.

You cannot rename settings/profiles that were used to acquire at least one trial.

To delete settings/profiles

In the Experiment Explorer, right-click the name of the settings/profile you want to delete and select Delete.

Notes

▪You cannot delete settings/profiles that were used to acquire at least one trial. To delete those settings/profiles, you must first delete the trials (make sure you do not lose any important data!).

▪You cannot delete settings/profiles if your experiment is set for Quality Assurance (GLP experiment) and you do not have specific rights.

▪If the currently-active settings/profile is deleted, the first of the remaining settings/profiles folder is activated automatically.

▪If you delete the only settings/profile in the folder, a new default settings/profile is created automatically.

▪If you delete a Data profile or an Analysis profile used to create an analysis result open on your screen (track plot or statistics result), the result is updated according to the first available Data profile, or, if no other profiles are available, a newly-created default profile.