Automation Editor Layout
Use Visual or Code alongside the canvas, with shared run controls and output.
The automation editor can expand beside the canvas when screen space permits. The compact and expanded views edit the same active automation. Visual and Code are views of that automation, not separate saved programs.
Expand the panel
Open an automation in Editor and choose Expand panel when available. Use Collapse panel to return. On a narrow viewport, work in the compact panel.
Choose an editing view
Use Visual for supported node-based steps. Code is available with the scripting feature. A script using unsupported Lua constructs may need to stay in Code; read any graph warning before making visual edits.
Use the shared controls
Run and preview controls act on the active automation and its parameters. The trigger selector controls whether automatic events can start it. Output and results explain what happened after a run.
Return to the canvas
Keep the panel open while inspecting the canvas, or close it when finished. Escape first belongs to focused inputs and child interactions; outside those interactions it collapses an expanded panel before closing the compact one.