User interfaces
Also known as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) these are the windows which you will want to have open to collect and view your data.
- 1 Quick Access Toolbar, aka PyPanel
- 2 CAP user changer
- 3 Facility Status Monitor
- 4 MX1 Controls - User Controls
- 5 MX1 Controls - Energy Changer
- 6 MX1 Controls - Distance selector
- 7 MX1 Controls - Lights, camera, attenuation!
- 8 MX1 Controls - Crosshair
- 9 MX1 Controls - Mini Kappa
- 10 MX2 Controls - User Controls
- 11 MX2 Controls - Change DCM Crystal
- 12 Robot Controls - Mount
- 13 Robot Controls - Sample Centering
- 14 Robot Controls - Pucks
- 15 Eiger Collect Tab - Screening tab
- 16 Eiger Collect Tab - Autostrategy
- 17 Eiger Collect Tab - Collection
- 18 Eiger Collect Tab - Diagnostics
- 19 ADXV
- 20 Data Processing webpage
- 21 MX1 Controls - DAC centering
- 22 MX1 Controls - Cryo Temperature and MX2 Controls - New Cryo Options
- 23 MX1 Controls - LED
GUI name | GUI screenshot | Important features |
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Quick Access Toolbar, aka PyPanel |
| Links to the crystal camera, beam camera, Controls GUI, Collection GUI, Robot and sample centering webpage, ADXV, and Quick Access list. |
CAP user changer |
| This is accessible via the Quick Access list. |
Facility Status Monitor | This is accessible via the Quick Access list. | |
MX1 Controls - User Controls |
| The main tab of the MX1 controls GUI. Here you can open and close the Mono Shutter (needed for getting beam into the experimental endstation), see the current energy, see the flux, and see if beams steering is happy. |
MX1 Controls - Energy Changer |
| Here you can change the energy. Please go to Options>User Level>Scientist to have rights to change the energy. |
MX1 Controls - Distance selector |
| This tool will calculate the maximum resolution possible at different detector distances, for the current energy of the beam. Longer detector distance means lower resolution |
MX1 Controls - Lights, camera, attenuation! |
| Here you can turn off the sample light, which is useful for light sensitive samples. You can turn down the camera quality, which is useful if you are working remotely and your internet is slow.
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MX1 Controls - Crosshair |
| Accessible via the Lights, camera, attenuation! tab, and the main MX1 controls tab. Here you can change the colour of the crosshair where you should center your sample. You can also change the size of the crosshair, and the GUI will tell you how big the crosshair is. Handy for measuring your crystal dimensions. |
MX1 Controls - Mini Kappa |
| If you have a monoclinic or triclinic crystal, or just want to put your crystal into a new orientation, you can use the mini kappa. Follow the instructions to collect a full sphere of data. See Mini-Kappa - MX1 for more details. You will then need to merge the runs together to get complete data. See CX Data Merging for more details. |
MX2 Controls - User Controls |
| Here you can open the Mono Shutter (needed for getting beam into the experimental endstation), see the energy, check the flux, change the microcollimators, and check the monochromator crystal. If you want to change the energy, you may need to change the monochromator crystal via the Change DCM Crystal tab. See X-ray energy for more information. |
MX2 Controls - Change DCM Crystal |
| There are only a set range of energies available for each setting of the monochromator. DC – Double crystal – 8.5-17.5 keV (up to 21.5 keV with staff assistance) CC – Channel cut –8.5-13.5 keV See X-ray energy for more information. |
Robot Controls - Mount |
| This is where you can select the pins/pucks you want to mount. They will show up in the mount queue, then you click Mount or Mount and Prefetch each time you want to mount the next crystal. See Robot mounting and user interface for detailed instructions. |
Robot Controls - Sample Centering |
| Here is where you click to center your crystal. Make sure your crystal stays centered on the crosshair at all angles. |
Robot Controls - Pucks |
| This will show you which pucks are loaded in the robot dewar and their positions. Use this information to decide which pucks to queue first. This page is accessible via the Quick Links tab of the Robot Controls webpage. |
Eiger Collect Tab - Screening tab |
| All the variables you need to set for a screening run of your crystal. Once you are happy with your settings, you can click Copy for the attenuation, file prefix, start angle, and distance to be copied into the dataset tab. |
Eiger Collect Tab - Autostrategy |
| This will calculate a strategy to collect complete data on your crystal. Note: This is rather slow, so best to use this as an indication of if you will get good completeness from a single Omega scan. Beware that it will overwrite your settings in the Collection tab, so check if you are happy with them before you collect. |
Eiger Collect Tab - Collection |
| Once you are happy with your collection settings from Screening, you can fill in this tab to collect a Dataset. See Collecting a Dataset for more details. Note: Very important to enter chemical formula! Just elements necessary. This means that the initial data solution of your structure will have the correct elements. |
Eiger Collect Tab - Diagnostics |
| Checks some common reasons why a collection cannot or should not occur. Cryostream should be in pause for CX collections. If all is ok to collect data, the big circle will be Blue. |
ADXV |
| This is where you view your diffraction images.
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Data Processing webpage |
| This is a list of every screen or dataset you have run. Open this webpage by opening a new tab and entering processing/processing, or via Quick Links, under “All processing results (dataset and indexing)” When you click on any line, you will get statistics about the data, and the folder location of the processed data. All processed data will be here: /data/mx/$EPN/home/$username/auto/dataset Where $EPN is your experiment number, and $username is the username the data was collected under. |
MX1 Controls - DAC centering |
| This is where you adjust the goniometer position and camera focus so that you can center and visualise the sample in a Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC), and set the correct dataset parameters to collect your data. For more information, see DACs: Sample mounting, centering and collection |
MX1 Controls - Cryo Temperature and MX2 Controls - New Cryo Options |
| This is where you control the sample temperature for any sort of variable temperature experiment. This includes a single temperature change, or a ramping experiment. See Variable Temperature on MX1 and MX2 for more details |
MX1 Controls - LED |
| This is where you can control the LED and start automated photo-chemistry data collections. See Photocrystallography with LEDs - MX1 for more details. |