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0015744ParaView(No Category)public2015-09-25 09:332016-05-31 17:46
ReporterUtkarsh Ayachit 
Assigned ToAlan Scott 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version 
Target Version5.1Fixed in Version 
Summary0015744: We need a "Getting Started guide" for ParaView
DescriptionExtracts from email:

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....watching users that try to just pick ParaView up without someone helping them, this isn't enough. I am starting to strongly feel that we need more than we have at startup - the initial login only, or until a user clicks a button and turns it off. ParaView has a fairly small, but extremely confusing first few steps. Maybe something as simple as "here's the apply button, here's auto apply, here's the help menu...". Here are the primary one time confusing issues with ParaView:
* Apply button. This is a huge hurdle for many folks that try ParaView without any tutoring.
* Variables aren't loaded by default. Once you hit apply, you never notice this again, and can't figure out how to paint by variable.
* Color by a variable. Users just see white, spin the object, like the colors better for EnSight (colors by block by default), and leave ParaView.
* Rescale to Data Range.
* How to automate some stuff. Auto Apply, Start at last timestep come to mind.
* The concept of filters. Just a sentence like "after you load your data, try clipping with Filters/ Common/ Clip" would help immensely.

Rereading Utkarsh's 3 below, I would even accept a one-time splash screen that says "go
to the Help menu, Starting Guide". Anything is better than we have!
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ProjectSandia
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 Relationships
related to 0015742closedUtkarsh Ayachit Include PDF for ParaView Tutorial in binaries 
related to 0015743closedUtkarsh Ayachit Help menu should have links to ParaView Tutorial & ParaVIew Guide 
has duplicate 0015953closedCory Quammen Getting Started Guide 

  Notes
(0036029)
Alan Scott (manager)
2016-05-31 17:46

 Closing - this has been implemented (and is a duplicate).

 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-09-25 09:33 Utkarsh Ayachit New Issue
2015-09-25 09:34 Utkarsh Ayachit Target Version => 5.0
2015-10-09 20:56 Alan Scott Relationship added related to 0015742
2015-10-09 20:56 Alan Scott Relationship added related to 0015743
2016-01-08 15:31 Utkarsh Ayachit Target Version 5.0 => 5.1
2016-02-11 17:45 Alan Scott Relationship added related to 0015953
2016-02-11 17:51 Alan Scott Relationship deleted related to 0015953
2016-02-11 17:51 Alan Scott Relationship added duplicate of 0015953
2016-02-24 19:02 Alan Scott Relationship replaced has duplicate 0015953
2016-05-31 17:46 Alan Scott Note Added: 0036029
2016-05-31 17:46 Alan Scott Status backlog => closed
2016-05-31 17:46 Alan Scott Assigned To => Alan Scott
2016-05-31 17:46 Alan Scott Resolution open => fixed

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