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title: "Manage channels"
canonical: "https://help.vicon.com/space/Tracker40/14188861/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
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|  | 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 pane 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.
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> ✅ To pin/unpin all or remove all channels, right-click a line in the key and select the relevant option.
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| **Subplot Per Type layout**
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**Single Plot layout**
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For information on how to change the colors used for each trace, see [Preferences options](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Tracker40/pages/14190610).
- 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.
- Dependent channel entriesare 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
- Right-click in a Graph Plots view, select **Pin Channel**and then select the relevant component or channel (see [Graph Plots mouse actions](https://vicon-help.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/Tracker40/pages/14193309)).
Pinning is useful for building plots of disparate types, or comparing multiple selected channels to a reference channel.
### Show or hide channel statistics
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|  | 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/Tracker40/pages/14190457))
- For review data, the whole clip range is used. |
### Set the opacity of lines between gaps inchannel data
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|  | Select the **Change opacity** button and move the slider to change the opacity of lines drawn between gaps in the channel data |