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title: "Manage channels"
canonical: "https://help.vicon.com/space/ShogunLive121/1253212170/Manage%20channels"
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These topics explain how to use controls in Graph Plots to manage the channels, including how to display or hide the key and how to pin and unpin channels:

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## Display or hide a key for the graph

 To toggle the display of selected or pinned channels, select the ** Channel Key ** button on the far right of the Graph Plots toolbar.   
For more information, see [Use the Channel Key](#ChannelKey).

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## Use the Channel Key

The Channel Key displays a list of the active channels. If the subplot layout is set to Single Plot, component names are also displayed, with each channel component displayed in a different color.

> ✅ **Tip**   
> ✅ To pin/unpin all or remove all channels, right-click a line in the key and select the relevant option.

### Subplot Per Type layout

> ![Channel Key showing subplot per type layout selected in Vicon Shogun Live.](media://0fcfa124-7680-4666-b2c8-36ff861fde18)

- **Color patch**: The color used for corresponding traces. The trace colors used can be updated in the **Graph Plots** section in preferences. For information on how to update the preferences, see [Live - Set Preferences](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunLive121/pages/1253212633).
- **Component name**
- **Channel name**
- **Pin button**: Click to toggle the relevant channel's pin status.
- **Remove button**: Click to remove the relevant channel. This removes its traces from the graph and de-selects any input channel sources.

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### Single Plot layout

> ![Channel Key showing single plot layout selected in Vicon Shogun Live.](media://4d30ea7a-d749-4d4e-a21b-1130657b6b70)

- Dependent channels are highlighted when all their input channel sources are selected.
- Independent channels are highlighted when they are the current channel type.

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Select and pin channels

Selecting a channel source automatically adds one trace for each of its components, creating subplots as required for each channel component type. Deselecting a channel source removes the traces (and any empty subplots).

Pinning a channel prevents removal of traces on deselection.

**To pin a channel, do either of the following:**

- Open the Channel Key and click the relevant Pin button > Macro (inline-media-image)

 for the component and channel name.

Or

- Right-click in a Graph Plot window, select **Pin Channel**and then select the relevant component or channel (see [Graph Plots mouse actions](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunLive121/pages/1253212279)).

Pinning is useful for building plots of disparate types, or comparing multiple selected channels to a reference channel.

### Show or hide channel statistics

 Select the **Show channel statistics** button to display a tooltip when you hover the mouse pointer over a subplot. The tooltip indicates the current value, mean, and standard deviation of the traces on the subplot.

- Mean and standard deviation are computed over the range of data stored in the channel cache.
- For live data, the size of this range is controlled by the live data range (see [Change the scale of graphed data](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ShogunLive121/pages/1253212356))
- or review data, the whole clip range is used.

### Set the opacity of lines between gaps in channel data

 Select the **Change opacity** button and move the slider to change the opacity of lines drawn between gaps in the channel data