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The Analysis Tools History window contains a list of all the analysis tools you have run since starting the ArcGIS Explorer application. The status of each tool is indicated by an icon to show whether they are pending (waiting for you to click run), currently running, successfully completed or failed. The list is ordered by the time at which you clicked Run and grouped by tool name and making it easy to find out the current status of the analysis tools you are working with.

##### Opening the Analysis Tools History window

To open the Analysis Tools History window, open the Analysis Gallery then click Analysis Tools History at the bottom of the gallery. The history window will open and you can place it wherever you would like on the screen, dock it to one side or even dock it with the open tool dialog to create a tabbed analysis window. If you are planning to run more than one tool in this session you may want to open the history window first to help you keep track of the tools you are running.

##### Working with the Analysis Tools History window

Each tool you open from the Analysis Gallery will be added to the Analysis Tools History window. As soon as you change any parameter on an open tool it will remain in the list and remember the information you entered even if you close the tool dialog. To reopen a tool with a specific set of parameters simply double click the entry in the list in the history window. You can remove tools in the history list by using the Remove or Remove All buttons at the bottom of the history window. Any tools that you open and subsequently close without changing any parameters will automatically be removed from the history list.

Tools waiting to be run are indicated by the pending tool icon . Once you click Run the icon will change to the running tool icon and will remain in this state until either the tool succeeds or fails on the GIS Server or you click the Cancel button. When the tool completes successfully, the results will be added to the Contents window and the tool in the Analysis Tool History window will have the icon. If you click Cancel on the tool dialog to stop the analysis tool the icon will be , or if the tool fails to complete successfully on the GIS Server you will see the icon.

Tools in the Analysis Tools History window are either:

Waiting to be run: |
Running: |
Succeeded: |
Cancelled: |
Failed: |

It is possible to run more than one tool at the same time or more than one instance of the same tool at the same time. To run another tool whilst one tool is already running, you simply open the Analysis Gallery and select the next tool you would like to run, fill in the inputs and click Run. Each tool will be added to the list in the history window as you open it and begin populating the input parameters. Alternatively you do not to have to run all the tools initially. Instead you can fill in the input parameters for each tool then when you are ready to run the tools you can open each in turn by double clicking the tool in the Analysis Tools History window and clicking Run. You should be aware that your tools might be queued on the GIS Server if other users are already running this, or other tools on the same server.