Interface and Navigation

These features control how the bid stack is displayed and how you find your way around it.

1

Set Dispatch Type

The Bid Stack tab shows the bids across the day in either 5-minute view or Hourly view. In 5-minute view there are 288 columns across the day — one per five-minute time slot, or dispatch interval; in hourly view there are 24. A resolution toggle sits next to the "Jump to time:" selector at the top of the bid stack. Its face reads 5-min view or Hourly view depending on the current setting, and clicking it flips between the two.

This is purely a display setting. It does not change what the file records and it never writes to disk — it only changes how densely the tab draws the columns for you. The file's own dispatch interval (5-minute or hourly) is decided when the file is created and is read-only in the Viewer/Editor: you cannot change it from this tab. You can confirm the file's own dispatch interval alongside Market, Intervals/day, and Bands under Settings → Bid Resolution, where it carries a read-only marker.

2

Time Period

A selector at the left of the Bid Stack toolbar. Use it to choose which time period to view in the bid stack. The selector is labelled Time Period on the toolbar.

3

Jump to Time

A time-of-day selector at the left of the Bid Stack toolbar. It lists every valid time slot at the current view resolution — the 288 five-minute slots (00:00 … 23:55) in 5-minute view, or the 24 hourly slots (00:00 … 23:00) in hourly view. Pick one and the tab scrolls that column into view so you can find and edit it without dragging the grid sideways. Available whenever a unit's bids have loaded.

4

Undo / Redo

Two buttons in the Bid Stack toolbar. Undo reverses the last edit you made to the unit's bid stack; its tooltip names the action that will be undone (for example, Undo (Edit band 3)). Redo re-applies the last action you undid; its tooltip names the action that will be re-done. The buttons are active whenever there is an edit to undo or an undone edit to redo.

Use Undo and Redo for quick, one-step corrections. To step back multiple changes at once, open the Edit History drawer (see below) and click the entry you want to return to.

5

Edit History

Opens the Edit History drawer on the right side of the tab. Toggle it from the History button in the header (also available as View → Show Edit History in the menu bar, or with Ctrl+Shift+H). The drawer lists every change you have made in this session — individual cell edits, bulk edits, imports, cancelled edits, validate check-points, Save, and Save As — newest at the top, with a — Saved — divider marking which entry currently matches what is on disk. Click any row to jump the tab back to that point in the timeline; if the row belongs to a different unit, the tab switches the tree selection and Bid Stack view for you.

Use this when you want to see a summary of what you have done so far in a session, or when you want to step back to an earlier state without individually undoing changes one by one.

6

Pending Changes

Opens the Pending Changes drawer on the right side of the tab. Toggle it from the Pending button next to History in the header. The drawer lists one row per unit that currently has unsaved edits — the unit's DUID, the day-block label (when a non-default block is loaded), and a count of how many time-intervals in that unit have unsaved changes. Click a row and the tab selects that unit in the tree and opens its bid stack so you can Update or Save it.

Use this to check, before saving, exactly which units you have changed. When there are unsaved edits, the header Pending button carries a number badge showing the total count, so you always know at a glance whether anything is waiting.

7

View Mode

A view-mode toggle sits on the Bid Stack and Graph tabs and switches what the grid shows between Energy Bid Offers and Reserve Bid Offers for the selected unit, site, or region. The toggle does not appear on the Detail tab — Detail shows unit/site/region identity and a per-unit Bid Summary that has no Energy/Reserve distinction. The default view is Energy.

When you switch the toggle to Reserve, four sub-tabs appear underneath it, one per reserve commodity, in reading order:

1. Frequency Reserve
2. Regulation Up
3. Regulation Down
4. Dispatchable Reserve

Frequency Reserve is selected by default the first time you switch into Reserve. Switching between the Bid Stack and Graph tabs preserves your current Energy/Reserve choice, and while you are in Reserve view the currently-selected reserve sub-tab is also preserved across that switch — so you can compare the same reserve commodity across Bid Stack and Graph without re-selecting it each time.

A .bidx file created before reserve support was added may show empty Reserve sub-tabs on first open, until reserve values are entered for the unit through the usual editing tools.