HIPE Plug-ins

This page lists (some of) the plug-ins currently available for HIPE.
If you would like to add yours, please send me an e-mail at paul.balm@esa.int.

• For an introduction into plug-ins and how to use them, see the User Manual.
• If you want to create your own plug-ins, read the Plug-in Developer Manual.
• If you're interested in understanding the features available in the plug-in framework, you can read the Design Document.

Plug-ins can be used with HIPE 5.0 and later.

Available Plug-ins

SPIRE Photometric Interactive Analysis (SPIA)

The SPIA package can be downloaded as a plain zip-file, but also as plug-in.

To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:

  https://nhscsci.ipac.caltech.edu/spire/DPsoftware/spia/scripts/spia_0.10.jar

The installation is automatic. See the SPIA home for more information and documentation. SPIA is provided by Bernhard Schulz (NHSC).

PACS Calibration Products Plug-in

This plugin is in beta testing, please use with care!

This plug-in loads the PACS Calibration Products from a web server and installs the files on your local system.
To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:

    http://pacs.ster.kuleuven.be/pub/plugins/pacs_cal_plugin_0.4.jar

The installation is automatic and will present you with a dialog to specify the local directory in which you want to install the calibration products.
Future releases will include:

• automatically check for new versions of calibration products
• automatically check for updates of the PACS Calibration Products Plug-in

MUST Plug-in

The MUST plug-in allows you to connect to ESOC's MUST database and process the housekeeping parameters.

: At the moment the MUST database can only be accessed within the ESA internal network

Usage

After installation:

• Go to menu Edit -> Preferences.
• Select Must from the tree at the left of the pop-up window.
• Modify the user and password information (if you do not know your user or password for MUST, please ask your MUST contact person)/
• Click Apply.
• Go to the menu Window -> Show View -> Must.
• In the Must View, click the button Get Parameters.
• Now you can plot the parameters you want.

If you want to make your own script to modify the parameters:

• Go to Workbench perspective
• Load the default script(Go to the menu Tools->must_herschel_plugin-composite.py)
• Modify this example script at your wish.
• Run the script

Install

To install, select "Plug-ins" from the Tools menu. Click "Install new plug-in" and enter the following URL:

    http://herschel.esac.esa.int/twiki/pub/Public/DpHipePlugins/must_herschel_plugin_0.3.jar

Demonstration plug-in

The demonstration plug-in is intended for plug-in developers. It shows some features of plug-in, such as including a license text, using a custom installer and custom configuration.

    http://herschel.be/twiki/pub/Public/DpHipePlugins/demo_1.1.jar