Service Wizard

This video illustrates in a VDM application a dialog called the Service Wizard which demonstrates how thousands of streams of telemetry data can be rapidly organized into useful presentations. In a typical office application, this functionality would be handled by templates, but in a scientific scenario like this, the number of templates required could easily be in the tens of thousands. For very common scenarios the Service Wizard can be used to create the templates.

The Service Wizard is scripted in an XML file that can be easily customized in the field:

The Service Tracks being referenced in the XML file are created by a VDM application called Data Studio using a docking panel called Service Tracks:

The following video illustrates how the Service Wizard is used and when curve groups are mentioned, this refers to a collection of telemetry streams.