To insert a Token in a Text Box (or any other edit field that accepts tokens), use either of the following methods:

 

•Right-click in the body of the text box and select Insert Token from the pop-up menu (or use the Text→Insert Text→Insert Token command). The Insert a Token dialog will appear (Fig. 19.1):

 

•Drag and drop a plot into the text box.  The Paste Special dialog will appear.  Choose Statistic token or Keyword token (Fig. 19.2).  The Edit Statistic or Edit Keyword dialog box will appear, from which token(s) can be selected for insertion.  Multiple statistics may be chosen and inserted at the same time by multiple selecting statistics from the Statistic category.

▪Multiple plots may also be selected and dropped into a text box. You will be prompted by the Paste Special dialog separately for each plot you have selected.

 

 

•Drag and drop a gate into the text box.  The Edit Statistic dialog box will appear, from which token(s) can be selected for insertion.  To select multiple items, press Ctrl or SHIFT on the keyboard.

 

•Drag and drop a default statistics into the text box. With a default gate or histogram statistics window open you can drag and drop individual statistics or hold down shift while clicking on different statistics to multiple select them. One or many statistics may be inserted into a new text box in this way.

▪When inserting a token into a text box embedded within a plot, you may select the plot on which the token is on or from a different plot listed for the Data Source category (Figure 19.3 below).

 

 

There are many kinds of tokens that can be inserted:

 

•Statistic

 

Displays plot, quadrant, and gate statistics. The value of a statistic token updates automatically, whenever a change pertaining to that statistic is made.

 

•Keyword

 

Displays the information which is stored in the FCS file header. Each keyword contains a different piece of information, i.e., acquisition date, number of events, etc.

 

•Statistic Classifier

 

Allows you to classify a statistic in terms of text, i.e., positive or negative cells (see Statistic Classifier Tokens).

 

•Layout

 

Displays information related to the layout, including the number of pages, the layout creation date, compensation settings, batch processing, and gate information.

 

•Gate

 

 Displays information related to gate information, such as the gate name, comments, link description, gate points, gate wells, combination formula or gate color.

 

•Signature

 

Displays information related to signatures such as Name, Description, Status, Data, Time, Signer, and Stamping Notes

 

•Compensation

 

Displays information for the Spill Over or Compensation Matrices.

 

•Batch Processing

 

Displays information related to batch processing including the Current Iteration, Number of Iterations, and Start time of the current batch process.

 

•SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)

   

  Displays information related to SOP steps.

 

•System

 

Displays information related to the current user and other system-related data.

 

•Plot

 

 Displays text related to the Plot Information, such as:

1.  Title

2.  Footer

3.  X axis label

4.  Y axis label

5.  Plot Number

6.  Plot Description

7.  Whether the plot is using channel calibration?

8.  Is channel calibration applied on the X and/or Y axis?        

 

 This token can also display information as it relates to the Center, Top, Right, Bottom, or Left Quad Vertices in the plot.        

 

•Data Parameter

 

  Provides a shortcut to a column of data in a data set. Normally used for evaluating numeric data from a parameter in a custom token.

 

•Spreadsheet Cell Value

 

Displays information from the specified cell address in the user-selected spreadsheet on the layout.

 

•Custom Tokens

 

These are tokens, which can contain user-defined formulas, that are created from the Custom Token window. A custom token formula can contain arithmetic operations, such as division and multiplication, and conditional operations, such as IF … THEN … ELSE. See Custom Tokens for a more detailed explanation. Note: Since a custom token must be created before it can be inserted into a text box, the Custom node will not appear in the Insert a Token dialog until one or more custom tokens have been created.

 

To insert a token, select the kind of token you want and then click Insert. Alternatively, you can double-click on the token you want to insert. After you Insert, a dialog box may appear asking you to set the properties for that particular token. The token properties are described under Common Token Properties.