Overview

Pathfinder Core PRO offers you ultimate control of your Axia network. It is a toolbox that allows you to fashion your own custom workflows for your users. At its foundation it provides router control. By communicating with Axia devices on your network, it brings the sources and destinations together into a common user interface that can then be used to make route changes anywhere in the system.

It also offers control over console parameters, metering, audio levels, and many more parameters that an Axia system provides. Plus, it allows you to design your own user interfaces to display this information and provide your users with whatever degree of control and information over the system you deem appropriate. Building on the highly successful PathfinderPro product line, Pathfinder Core PRO strives to make the information about your Axia system more dynamic, visible, and accessible than ever before.

Web Browsers

Pathfinder Core PRO uses modern web browser tools to bring a rich and dynamic user experience to the product, including web sockets and HTML5. This comes at the expense of being unable to support older web browsers. Use a current version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox; Internet Explorer is not supported. Most of our development work has been done using Google Chrome which should provide the most consistent and best user experience. If you find things that do not work or behave properly in a specific browser or do not update the data properly, please feel free to file a report with Axia support so that we can investigate the issue. We are always striving to improve the user experience across all browsers.

If data does not seem to display properly or if data is missing, refreshing the webpage is sometimes helpful. Many browsers also have a key combination that will force a refresh from the serving device rather than relying on cached data; for instance, holding the CTRL and SHIFT keys while clicking the refresh button in Google Chrome.

Navigation Bar

All links necessary to configure, control, and monitor your Pathfinder Core PRO system are on the left-hand side of the Pathfinder Core PRO web pages. This will be referred to throughout the manual as the Navigation Bar.

The links are grouped by purpose:

Click a group's name to open or close it. Tick Expand all menus at the bottom of the bar to keep every group open; your browser remembers the choice. Click « at the top of the bar to collapse the whole bar and give the page more room.

While the links within each group are presented alphabetically for ease of use, this manual will skip from link to link as we go through a logical progression of using the system. This manual refers to pages by their group and link, for example Automation > Memory Slots. Some links only appear on certain systems: for example, a system running as a container has no Bank Control, Time or Upload Update link.

Connection Status

A connection banner tells you whether the underlying web socket used to obtain and set information from the web page to and from Pathfinder Core PRO is open and communicating properly. In normal situations nothing is shown. If the connection is lost for more than about three seconds, a red banner appears below the title bar, indicating a communication problem between your browser and Pathfinder Core PRO:

The page keeps trying to reconnect. When the connection comes back, the banner briefly turns green and then disappears:

If the banner stays red, check network connectivity between your browser and Pathfinder Core PRO and verify Pathfinder Core PRO is booted and functioning properly. An additional symptom of this problem may be that configurations look as if they were blank. Before panicking and assuming that your Pathfinder Core PRO has somehow been wiped of its settings, check to see if the connection banner is showing.

Dialogs and Messages

Questions, confirmations and short messages appear in dialogs and notifications within the page, rather than in the browser's own pop-up windows. Most editors, such as the Memory Slot editor, open as a dialog over their list instead of on a separate page.

Lists: Searching and Sorting

Many of the configuration pages in Pathfinder Core PRO need to present lists of data. For example:

There are a few conventions that apply whenever you see a list like this in Pathfinder Core PRO. The first is the Search box in the right corner.

Search. Typing in the search box will dynamically filter the list; here, Studio finds both the slot whose value is Studio A and the StudioA array. Click the × in the box to clear it. These filters are also often stored by the browser, so if you return to a page and do not see the expected data in the list, check the search field to see if you have a filter on the list.

Sorting. Each column header has arrows next to the header names. Clicking on the header will sort the list according to the data in that column. The column that only has the single arrow represents the current sort column. Clicking on that column a second time will flip the arrow to the other direction and flip the sort from incrementing to decrementing and back again.

Deleting. Many of the lists will have a trash icon in the last column of the list. Clicking this Delete icon removes the selected list item from the system.

Adding. Many of the lists will also have an Add + button at the bottom of the list. This indicates that items may be added to the list. Clicking Add + will usually open another dialog box with specifics for adding the new item.

Selecting several items. On lists with check boxes, tick items (or the box in the header, to tick them all). A toolbar appears above the list showing how many are selected, with actions such as Clone Selected and Delete Selected, and Clear Selection.

Paging. When lists expand beyond what can be viewed on a single page, page navigation buttons will appear. Select an entries value from the Show dropdown list to define how many entries are shown on each page. Options include 10, 25, 50, or 100 entries. The line below the list displays the total number of items shown on this page and the total number of returned entries. If your search returns more entries than can be displayed on a single page, click the First, Previous, page number, Next and Last buttons to move through the pages of returned results.

Important Note: These navigation tools are subject to the search field. In the case above for instance, if we were to type FUSION into the search field, we may get only a single returned entry and the page buttons would only show a single page.

Event System Catch 22

Pathfinder Core PRO includes an event system called Logic Flows. Because Logic Flows can reach into almost every part of the system, they present a bit of a Catch 22 when it comes to introducing certain subjects in a manual.

There are certain subjects - such as Memory Slots - that are primarily useful in the context of Logic Flows, so you have to understand Logic Flows in order to make the best use of Memory Slots. However, the examples and discussions within the Logic Flow section of this manual also will refer to Memory Slots in order to present some of its examples.

Wherever possible, we have attempted to note this and refer to the relevant sections of this manual. However, as a reader, be prepared to skip around if necessary. If the manual is read from front to back, there may be points where we refer to subjects covered in a later section.