The Vehicle tabs

Once a vehicle is selected or connected on the Home tab, a new vehicle tab is created for the vehicle. It is possible to have up to five vehicle tabs active simultaneously.

The vehicle tabs can be labeled with model year, customer name, license plate or additional vehicle attributes such as engine code and transmission. This helps you to easily keep track of vehicles and customers when more than one vehicle tab is active simultaneously. The label can be modified on the Application Settings page. The currently selected vehicle's tab is always highlighted in blue.

Fig. 29: Vehicle tab

If a vehicle is in a software download process, the color of its vehicle tab may change to one of the following colors:

Green	–	Software download is completed.
Orange	–	Attention is required. This is applicable if a diagnostic script needs to be executed (e.g. calibration of the CCM) as a part of the software download process.

A vehicle information bar is shown consistently under any selected vehicle's tab. This gives you instant access to certain useful details of the selected vehicle/customer. More customer and vehicle details are accessed by clicking a customer name (if available) or VIN.

Fig. 30: Vehicle information bar

On the right-hand side of the vehicle information bar, an information box is available where you can check certain vehicle parameters, i.e.connection status, currently connected communication tool, voltage and key position. Use the connection icons to connect or disconnect the vehicle.

The color of the information box reflects the current connection status of the vehicle:

Green	–	Connected mode, i.e. the vehicle is connected.
Gray	–	Non-connected mode, i.e. the vehicle is selected.
Red	–	Connected mode, i.e. the vehicle is connected but VIDA is not able to communicate with the communication tool.

The vehicle tab has the following subtabs, from which you can handle the selected vehicle.

Note

The content of the Diagnostics subtab in VIDA differs depending on what diagnostic protocol the current vehicle uses. For further information, see Diagnostic protocols. For each vehicle tab, you will only see one of the two possible Diagnostics subtabs.

The navigation on the subtabs' pages differs. See the article Navigation in VIDA for further information.

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