WinOLS Mastery: Map Identification & Editing: Map Folders
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Map Folders
06.12
| 00:00 | - As we've already found in the body of the course, often when we're dealing with maps inside of a factory ECU, there will be multiple copies of the same map. |
| 00:09 | These might be used for example as torque limits or maybe boost targets per gear or under different drive modes or maybe when there's a diagnostic trouble code that is present, putting the vehicle into a limp home mode. |
| 00:24 | Irrespective of why the factory ECU contains multiple maps, it's important to understand that they in fact do. |
| 00:31 | And when we are defining maps, we really want to make sure that we make use of WinOLS' folders feature in order to collate and manage all of these maps into something that's going to be easy to deal with and make a lot more sense. |
| 00:46 | This is a relatively easy function to utilise and we're going to demonstrate it here. |
| 00:51 | So to start with, once we've got WinOLS up and running, what we want to do is come across and open a project. |
| 00:58 | You'll find this project below this module and the specific one we want to use here is our Nissan Patrol file. |
| 01:07 | So what we're going to do is select that file and click OK and what we want to do here is just choose the original file here and click OK. |
| 01:16 | That will load everything up and what we can see over here on the right hand side is that we have a number of defined maps already but they haven't been put into a folder structure. |
| 01:26 | This is only touching on the actual maps that are available but you get an idea of how this can end up looking quite cluttered once we've maybe got 40 or 50 different maps all with multiple variants. |
| 01:41 | What we can see here already is that the injection on time, we've got a folder set up for this already, we can see beside the little folder structure, in parentheses we've got the number six and that just simply means that we have six of these maps already and we can see them presented just down below here. |
| 02:00 | We can open or close these folders by clicking on them and particularly when we are trying to work our way through everything it can help to have these closed down initially. |
| 02:12 | What we can also do is we can right click and we can come down to open or close all folders, depending on how you want to view this. |
| 02:22 | Now what we want to do is head back across to my maps and open this and what we're going to be working with here is we can see we've got a number of maps for requested charge pressure so I'll demonstrate how we can create a folder and instantly put all of these into that folder. |
| 02:37 | As well as this, if we're doing this as we're starting to define our very first requested charge pressure map, we can actually set this folder structure up so that any subsequent maps that we define, that use the same naming structure, will automatically be placed into this folder. |
| 02:55 | Meaning it's essentially a one and done operation, we don't need to worry about it again. |
| 02:59 | So let's see how we're going to go about this, I've selected the top of those requested charge pressure maps. |
| 03:05 | I'm going to come across to this, it is important that we place our cursor here over the actual name, requested charge pressure, rather than the address which we see across to the left. |
| 03:15 | We can then right click and what we want to do is come up here and select copy name. |
| 03:21 | So that's going to do exactly what you'd expect, it's going to copy that name, requested charge pressure. |
| 03:27 | Now that we've copied the name of that map to our clipboard, what we want to do is come back over that and right click again and this time we're going to scroll up until we get to this new folder option and we're going to left click on that. |
| 03:39 | Now what we want to do for a start is give this folder a name. |
| 03:42 | You can name it whatever you want but for simplicity, I try and keep the naming structure the same as my map so control and V is just going to paste that name that we just copied into that particular field. |
| 03:55 | We've now got the option of how we're going to add these maps and we can see here we can define an address range for the map, so if the map falls within an address range, it's going to be copied into this folder. |
| 04:06 | However, what we're going to actually do is use this little tick box here and this will copy any maps with a specific name or text field into our folder. |
| 04:16 | So of course here we're going to control V and copy again and what we can do is now click on the apply rule now to existing maps and click OK. |
| 04:27 | So what we can see is now those maps have disappeared and instead we've got our requested charge pressure folder that has been created, we can see in parentheses it's showing we've got seven maps there so let's just open that and then all of our maps are present just under that folder structure. |
| 04:46 | To really cement this process and give you a little more practice, let's simply repeat it. |
| 04:50 | So if we look a little further up our list of defined maps, you can see we've got four that are listed as NM conversion tables or newton metre conversion tables. |
| 05:00 | Let's just right click on the top of those and we'll click copy name. |
| 05:04 | Now we can right click again and we're going to select new folder just as we did, we're going to use control V to paste that NM conversion that we just copied, we're going to again select the lower field here, control V to paste into that, we're going to click the apply rule to existing maps button, that's done the job of creating those folders so we can click OK and now we can see that we have our new folder here, NM conversion with four maps in it, we can click on the folder icon to expand that out and there are our maps. |
| 05:38 | As I've already mentioned, using this process also means that if we do happen to define further maps that fall into either of these folders, they will automatically be placed into these folders, providing we are using that naming structure. |
| 05:52 | So this is something that is relatively simple to do but particularly as you get further through defining your maps and you've got more maps defined, this is a very very simple way of cleaning up the map folder structure, making it simpler to navigate and simpler to find exactly what you're looking for. |
