Exploring the ESP Studio Workspace

Explore ESP Studio perspectives and views to discover what you can do.

1. (Optional) On the Welcome screen, use the buttons to navigate to the help, or close the Welcome screen tab.
   • Click Product Overview or Getting Started to open the help.
   • Click Learning to open Studio in the Learning perspective.
   • Click Studio to open Studio in the Authoring perspective.
2. To switch to another perspective, click its tab just below the main menu bar.
3. Click Learning to:
   • Load example projects
   • Step through example projects so that you can follow what happens when you subscribe to streams, publish demonstration data, and view results

   Note: Activities you initiate in Learning perspective open in Authoring and Run-Test perspectives.
4. Click the Authoring tab in Studio to:
   • Create and edit projects
   • Develop projects and diagrams in the Visual editor, a graphical editing environment
   • Develop projects in the CCL editor, a text-oriented editing environment where you edit CCL code
   • Compile projects
   • Import Aleri models
5. Click the Run-Test tab in Studio to:
   • Connect to servers
   • Run projects
   • Enter test data by uploading data files to a server, or entering data manually to a stream
   • Publish data
   • Execute a query against a running project
   • Use the Event Tracer and Debugger to set breakpoints and watchpoints, and trace the flow of data through a project
   • Record incoming event data to a playback file, and play back captured data into a running project
   • Monitor performance