Install Charts interface

The Install Chart interface allows you to install and to uninstall chart collections to your hard drive.

The interface has the header displaying the program name and the hardware key serial number and three integrated windows: Collection Data window, Control Panel, and Collection Status section:

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Collections Data window displays the list of chart collections, which contains the chart collections the licenses to which are loaded to the dongle, as well as the chart collection already installed to the hard drive. To navigate up and down the list, use the scroll panel at the right side of the chart collections list.

Control Panel holds the buttons managing the process of chart collections installing and uninstalling.

Collection Status section provides information on the current status of a selected chart collection.

To install chart collections

You can install either all the collections in the list or a selected collection.

To install all collections:

1.Touch Install All in Control Panel.

2.A dialog box requesting your confirmation opens. Select:

Yes to install all of the collections in the list,

No if you do not want to install all of the collections

3.A progress bar appears indicating the installation status. To install a selected collection:

1.Select a collection in the list.

2.Touch Install Selected.

3.A dialog box requesting your confirmation opens. Select:

Yes to install the selected collection,

No if you do not want to install the collection.

4.A progress bar appears indicating the installation status.

You can only install the chart collection you have the license to. The presence of the license in the dongle is indicated by the green key icon near the chart collection name in the list of chart collections.

After a collection is installed, the globe and eye icons indicating the collection status are activated and the green circle with or without the lightning icon appears near the installed collection name:

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the active globe icon indicates that the collection is installed

the active eye icon indicates that the collection is visible; if the eye icon is dimmed, the collection is invisible

the green circle with the lightning indicates that the real-time updating is available; without the lightning -- the real-time updating is unavailable.

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8000I specifications

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