Panels: the three ways SciStudio shows data

A panel is a small web page that shows your data and, where the situation allows, lets you act on it. SciStudio panels are available in three forms:

Form Moment What it does
Preview panel Looking at data Shows one data object or collection, read-only
Interactive panel A workflow step needs your decision Hands one decision back to a waiting workflow
MiniApp Exploring data before the next step is known Runs as an app on a block output, with its own Python

Preview panels — looking at data

  • Click any port on the canvas and its preview opens in the preview column, read-only. Bounded reads keep even very large data instant.
  • All Previewers, above the preview area, lists the panels available for a data type.

Interactive panels — deciding a step

  • When a run pauses at an interactive block (such as the built-in ones: the Data Router, the Pair Editor), a dialog opens with the view the block prepared.
  • Make your choice; the workflow resumes and the decision is recorded in run history.

MiniApps — exploring before you know the next step

  • Open on the output of a completed block and keep computing while you work, thanks to their own Python process.
  • When the exploration settles, convert a MiniApp into an interactive block so the step joins the workflow. See miniapps.md.

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