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SACO Display Director

Side Panel

Project View Taskpane icon

Displays the enabled processors, with offline processors indicated by red ‘Assign Online Processor’ icons and online ones by green. Clicking on a red ‘Assign Online Processor’ icon allows you to assign offline processors to unassigned, online processors. This list also enables navigation between different active designs, each containing a processor.

Add Processor: Opens a menu with two sections — offline component-library processor types (to start a design without a physical unit connected) and any online processors currently detected on the network. Selecting one adds it as a new design/processor in the project; if an online processor is already in use by another design, it’s shown in orange and can’t be added again.

Component Library icon

Shows the available components, which can be dragged and dropped onto the canvas. The library changes depending on whether you are in Pixel Layout or Wiring Layout. The Pixel Layout library includes configured fixtures and screens, while the Wiring Layout features accessories and controls only.

Quickbatch: Hover a component in the library (icon view or list view) and click the + button that appears on it to open the Quickbatch dialog for that component, generating a grid of it directly on the canvas:

  • Cabinet Selection: Columns and Rows — how many cabinets to generate in each direction.
  • Raster Offset: Raster X and Raster Y — where the generated grid starts on the raster.
  • Gap: Between Columns and Between Rows — spacing, in pixels, between generated cabinets.

The number of rows and columns you can generate is limited by the selected component’s pixel size and the defined raster size — see Common Issues if you hit that limit.

Used Components icon

Lists all components used in your project from both Pixel and Wiring layouts, grouped by Zone (or by wiring Chain Group once chain groups have been generated). You can search for a specific name at the top to filter the list, and use “Expand All” / “Collapse All” to open or close every group at once. Selecting an item will select and navigate to the corresponding component on the canvas.

Diagnostics icon

A live error/warning list for the design you’re currently working on — this is the per-file counterpart to the project-wide Run Diagnostics table.

  • The same “Run Diagnostics” button from the Bottom Status Bar sits at the top of this panel.
  • Below it, every check from Diagnosis Options is listed as its own row with a live count. A row with errors is tinted red; a second, separate list further down shows warnings the same way.
  • Expand a row to see each flagged item individually. Clicking one selects it and zooms the canvas to it, so you can jump straight from an error to the object causing it.