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Groups & Profiles

Groups and Abstraction Profiles organize fixtures for selection and programming. Abstraction Profiles are not built yet — see the note below the Groups section.

Groups

Groups are named collections of fixtures. Create groups to select related fixtures quickly: “Wash Front”, “Spots Center”, “All Moving Heads.” Groups are managed in the Groups window. Each group shows as a card with its name, its resolved fixture count, and a “Dynamic” badge where applicable.

What works today:

  • Create — the New Group dialog creates a static group from its name
  • Delete — from a group card’s overflow menu
  • Dynamic groups — the dialog collects filter criteria (profile name, manufacturer, address range, LACS category) and they are persisted and applied: a patched fixture joins the group when its profile name or manufacturer contains the substring, its address falls inside the range, and (if set) any of its channels belongs to the chosen LACS category. Empty criteria match everything. A group’s resolved fixtures are its dynamic matches plus any fixtures in its static list. Hovering the “Dynamic” badge shows the criteria in words.

Not yet available:

  • Capturing the current programmer selection when saving a group — created groups do not contain fixtures yet
  • Adding or editing a group’s fixture list
  • Renaming a group or selecting a group from its card
  • Generating groups from stage maps or saved criteria

Abstraction Profiles

Not yet available. PRISM has no abstraction profile layer: programming targets fixture attributes directly (the dimmer, color, gobo/shape, and position tabs in the Controls window). The only “profiles” in the system are fixture models (manufacturer/model definitions used when patching) — not a programming abstraction.

Profile Sets

Not yet available. There is no multi-wheel profile-set concept in the system today.