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Explorer Panel

The Explorer panel (E) is the structural view of your design. It opens on the left side and lists every component, every connection, and every group, with live runtime stats inline when a simulation is running.

When to use it

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  • Browse a complex design with many components and find a specific block by name.
  • Spot orphans (components with no inbound or no outbound).
  • Sanity-check the connection list against the canvas (do all the wires you intended actually exist?).
  • See per-component IN / OUT / FILTERED / LOST / utilization at a glance without hovering each block on the canvas.

What’s in it

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  • Components — list of every block grouped by type (Person, Step, Storage, Decision, Trigger, Tool, Channel). Each row shows the label, behavior mode, and live runtime counts when a sim is running.
  • Connections — list of every line with from → to labels, direction arrow, latency, weight (for split routing), and sync/async flag.
  • Groups — list of visual subsystems (Pro feature) with bounding box and member count.
  • Filter — type-to-filter input at the top filters all three lists in real time.
  • Click any row — selects that component / connection / group on the canvas and scrolls it into view.
  • Right-click — opens a context menu (edit, delete, duplicate).

Live runtime stats

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When a simulation is running, each component row shows:

  • IN — boundary arrivals into the component (sky-blue down-arrow).
  • OUT — boundary emissions from the component (green up-arrow).
  • FILTERED — packets the component dropped via filter behavior (purple).
  • LOST — packets the component dropped via queue overflow (red).
  • Utilization bar — colored progress bar showing fraction of frames the component was active.

These are the same numbers shown on the canvas badges, just compactly listed.

Copy for Docs

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One button in the panel header copies the entire design as a plain-text snapshot: components by type, connections with arrows + labels, groups, plus the runtime stats if a sim has been run. Use it for PRs, design reviews, paper appendices, or Slack threads.

The Explorer’s snapshot covers structure (what’s connected to what); the Overview panel’s snapshot covers dynamics (how it behaved under load). They complement each other.

Keyboard shortcuts

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  • E — toggle the Explorer panel
  • Type-to-filter — focus the search input by clicking it, type to narrow
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