In this lecture, we'll do a walk through of the note, read version 2.1 user interface and just have
a look at the major components that make up the Node editor.
You'll be drilling into most of those components as you're going through the project in this course.
But I wanted to just give you an overview so that you know where things are and what to be looking for.
Now start from the top navigation bar where you've got three widgets.
So the first one allows you to deploy changes in your flows so that they become effective.
So if I go, for example, and add a new node on to one of my flows and connected to something else,
we basically configure a change or introduce a change to my flow.
This change is not effective until I actually deploy it.
So there's a few different ways by which you can deploy.
You can deploy everything or just things that have changed or just nodes that have changed, or it can
also restart a flow.
Even if you don't make any change to do in session, you can reset it by choosing the restart flow option
down here.
So that's the deployed button in the previous lecture and we used the configuration we set and introduced
user profiles and you can access users or logout if you order it locked in from the user menu up here.
If you haven't set up security, then this menu item would not appear.
After that, you've got the main configuration dropdown which gives you a variety of options you can
do or you can undo, for example, and to redo it can turn things on and off, such as here the pallet
on the left side or the side bar on the right side.
Put those back.
It can now turn on the event log.
For example, we can see what has been going on in the background still in the main menu.
Up on the top right side of the notebook user interface, you'll see the import and export functions.
I'm going to show you how to use those two functions in coming up lectures.
But essentially what you can do with them is you can use them to export flows and share them with other
people.
A flow file and the contents of a flow file look like this basically adjacent file just to share this
fire with someone else who might want to use this flow and imported into their instance of no trade.
And then they'll be able to continue to use it in the lectures that follow.
Once the project is under way.
I'll be sharing my flows as they appear in the lectures, so you'll be able to import them into your
node instance instead of having to manually construct them.
So I'll show you how to do that later on.
Still in the main menu.
A few other things.
You've noticed how I've got quite a few flows in this example.
Here you are able to use a couple of ways to find a flow that you're looking for which you want to work
with.
Either you can go to the main menu, search for flows and then this pop up will appear.
Or you can use command to f, f stenting for flows and then you can start typing the name of a flow
that you want to jump to or a note.
Here you can see I typed in for DHT and I've got a couple of flows that contain DHT in their title,
so I click on that.
It will take me directly to that particular flow.
All right.
So there's other things here as well that we're going to explore.
I'm going to talk about some flows and groups in later lectures and in particular, loose end groups.
Those are new features in no rate version two.
So I'm going to cover them in section 18.
The social settings for the user interface, including the palette setting.
So the palette setting allows you to review the notes that you have installed outside of the core notes,
and you can also install new notes from the install tab.
I've got another lecture where I'll show you how to use this particular capability.
There's also a lot of shortcuts that you can use and you can find out what those shortcuts are in the
keyboard tab.
Okay.
Continuing with the review of the user interface, on the left side, you've the palette.
This is where you can find existing notes and then drag and drop them on to your editor.
It can also use a filter up here so that you can quickly find what you're looking for and then drop
it in to the editor.
So this is the palette.
And then on the in the middle, we've called to the editor.
So it it organizes flows in tabs.
You can have taps that are visible or invisible.
So this is again a new feature in no trade version to where you can hide politically, not using in
order to just remove the clutter, reduce the clutter on the right side.
You've got the side by the side by garnish, organized with tabs.
You can see here the info tab, which is this tab right here, you've got documentation so you can browse
the note, read online the limitation and find out what the use of the installed notes is.
You've got the debug tab, which is the place where messages from.
Various nodes will appear.
So for example.
I've got the debug note here called Pump State, which is printing the payload when it takes the on
numbers into the debug tab.
You can see how it's scrolling through here and that allows me to keep an eye on the state of flow in
real time.
So that's what this tab here is.
You've got the config, a lot of those.
We're not going to be using much.
I'm just going to I'm just showing you really quickly what to look like.
I've got a separate lecture for the debugger.
The debugger is a tool that does exactly that allows you to debug a fluid that is running in real time.
But it's an additional component that you will need to install.
And I'm going to show you how to install the debugger and use it in a lecture in Section 18, where
I focus on new features that are included in Vision two of note read.
Another interesting thing here, of course, is the dashboard.
And the dashboard looks like this in the editor window.
But once you set it up and I'm going to show you how to do that during the project, then you can invoke
it.
And that would look like this, at least in the case of the project that you'll be building as part
of this course.
So I'm going to stop here with this introduction to the note read user interface and continue the next
few lectures in this section with a review of some of the most important notes that you'll find in the
lead.
Sure, you had to construct simple flows like this one right here and help you become familiar with
the notes and past flows and structures and techniques that you'll be using in the project that is coming
out.