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Pirform's Board Manager

Pirform's Board Manager lets you easily work with the boards in your certificate.

An animated demonstration of dragging supplies in the Board Manager interface.

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Watch Pirform's Board Manager in action in the following video.

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Using the Board Manager

Pirform's Board Manager is a feature that lets you work with the boards in a certificate. In the Board Manager you can:

  • Add new boards and change details of existing boards.
  • Visualise how the boards in the installation are connected.
  • Change a board's supply using either drag and drop or selecting in a dialog.
  • Reorder boards in the certificate.
  • Reorder circuits in a board.
  • Delete a selection of boards.
  • Exclude individual boards from the PDF.
  • Clear all engineers and instruments from the boards.
  • Add or adjust engineers for each board.
  • Print out a diagram of how the board are connected in the installation.
  • Create an Excel spreadsheet listing the boards and the circuits.

Two views of the installation

The Board Manager shows the boards as they are connected and as a plain list. When Supplies is selected in the ribbon you can visualise how the boards are connected in the installation. You can also expand and contract the nodes as needed using the buttons in the ribbon or the +/- buttons in the designation column.

A screenshot of the supplies view in the Board Manager, showing boards connected in a tree structure.

Click List in the ribbon to see the boards as a list.

A screenshot of the list view in the Board Manager, showing boards as a plain list.

Working with boards

The ribbon contains buttons that allow you to add, copy, delete and move boards. You can also adjust the number of ways of the selected board.

In the list view you can select more than one board and some of the functions, such as delete, allow you to act on the selection you have chosen.

A screenshot of the list view in the Board Manager with multiple boards selected.

Note

Some buttons are only available when in supply view and some when in list view.

Working with supplies

Clicking into the supply column lets you select the supply for the selected board.

A screenshot of selecting a supply for a board in the supply column of the Board Manager.

An animated demonstration of dragging and dropping boards to change supplies in the Board Manager.

Working with engineers

You can see the engineer and instrument details in both views and are able to adjust them individually as required.

A screenshot of the Board Manager showing editing engineer and instrument details.

The ribbon also lets you clear the engineers and instruments, which is useful after you have copied a previous certificate and you can also set blank rows to be the currently selected engineer and instruments all at once using the Copy to Blanks feature.

A confirmation dialog showing the Copy to Blanks feature in the Board Manager.

Exporting boards and circuits to Excel

You can use the Board Manager to export boards and circuits to Excel. For more details, see the link below:

Exporting boards and circuits to Excel