I think that we'd want it not just to be any time, but the plates available through the night, with some indication of when the can be observed. I could/should mock something up

I added a routine showPfsDesign to pfs.utils.pfsDesignUtils that will be OK for now.  It produces plots like 

rhl has the routine been pushed to remote? I don't see any changes to pfs_utils on GitHub recently.

Great. Perhaps it would be helpful if one can see designName in pfsDesign file header now?
Also, the plot exemplifies the designs with on sky targets but there are some design files purely for technically engineering purposes like moving Cobras nearby dots. So maybe if there is a simple table of design ID and designName etc as well as other things such as the visibility plot?

I'd done a git push --set-upstream origin tickets/PIPE2D-947.  Is it not showing up (there's a link to the pull request on that ticket)

Those "RHL" "NT" strings in my plot are the designName field.

Anyway, this plot doesn't mean that we don't need this ticket.  It's part of the solution, and not a long-term one as I think something web-based would probably be better.

I've just noticed the changes in the tickets/PIPE2D-947 branch, thanks.

Can I start to make this viewer as a subsection of obslog?

I'm not sure that the necessary pieces of information are already stored in the opdb database.

Yes, of course.  I just wanted to put something together that might give you some ideas (and that we could use this run)

OK. Thanks!

michitaro aims to look at this in the next 2-3 weeks.

rhl yuki.moritani I apologize for not understanding your comments at the meeting due to lack of background understanding.
Could you comment here again?

Don't be sorry.. and I'm sorry for late response..
My request was that it will be nice to see the plots from the viewpoint of spectrograph modules. For example, when you select a given FoV, a figure can be seen (optionally) to show the target/calibration/sky objects distribute along the slits.

I'm late too.

My request was to have a way to select a pfsConfigId from your tool – no-one should be typing SHAs. A "copy to clipboard" would be a start.

If you're showing pfsDesigns on hscMap, I'd rather show the PFI instrument as well as the objects being targeted. So the fields of the auto guiders as well as the stars selected. The cobra patrol regions and small symbols for the selected objects, rather than large symbols for the selected objects. In general there will be many overlapping designs, so I think I'd just provide an overview of the designs (maybe just the field-of-view) and a way to select which designs to show. Also a way to only select a subset of designs (e.g. ones that could be observed at a given time.

Thank you very much for the replies! I understood clearly.

During June run, pfsDesign files were visualized on obslog.

Closed based on previous comment - the tool was used successfully during the June Engineering Run.