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Data Synchronisation

Automatic synchronisation of data between Table Editor and Keyword Editor is the default program operation. However, in a small minority of cases, the transfer of data from one medium to the other can be quite time consuming, and you may want to temporarily disable the synchronisation. For example, if you are editing a very large table of vessel RAO data in the Table Editor, it is more efficient to specify all the required data there fully first, before transferring the data to Keyword Editor afterwards. (Note that the use of include files for RAO data is still strongly recommended.) The symbol on the separator between Table Editor and Keyword Editor is available for this purpose. When the symbol shows, Automatic synchronisation is enabled. Clicking on it to change it to disables automatic synchronisation and changes instead to Manual mode. In this mode, you are prompted to manually synchronise views; for example, if you make a change to the keyword file, an option to Click to update Table View ... appears in the Table Editor.

When operating in Manual mode, the Table Editor and Keyword Editor are mutually exclusive entities – as soon as you modify input data in either editor, the other input conduit becomes read only, and will remain in this state until such time as you manually update. Finally, when you switch from Manual to Automatic mode, data is synchronised immediately.