Internal data folders:

Chemstation organizes spectra and other data in internal folders or, as it calls them, registries.  These folders allow to group and display similar data together. The most visual aspect of folders is that all data in one folder are overlaid together in one plot and each plot contains data from one folder only.

Folders make it easier to view different data. Results of subtraction of one spectrum from another, for example, are stored in ARITHM_RESULTS folder and displayed in Math Results view; they thus can be viewed on expanded scale comparing to the original spectra. Another example is separation of time profiles and spectra, which use different calibrations, in PROFILES and SAMPLES folders.

Some folders are treated specially by Chemstation. For example, Save Samples command from File menu will save everything that is currently in Samples folder.  Data can be freely moved between folders using Move/Copy utility, although mixing of spectral and temporal (profiles) is not practical.

There are two menus that allow switching between various folders and their associated views. Standard method is through View menu, which displays a long list of spectral and non-graphical views. Only few of those have practical use in our applications and custom views are not listed.

Additional menu for switching between the most frequently-used folders is via Denis->View menu.  The three entries in this menu refer to three most used representations of experimental results: matrices, spectra, and temporal profiles.