If you wish to read transient data that is being updated (that is, perhaps the solver is in the process of writing the data and you are looking at it as the solution proceeds: co-processing) then you will need to get your solver to write out the maximum number of steps keyword if the data is PLOT3D Results File Format or EnSight Gold Casefile Format. Or, if you are using another format and have a custom user-defined reader, then you will need to add a routine called USERD_get_max_time_steps that cues the EnSight Server that the number of time steps can be updated (and provides a maximum never-to-exceed number of time steps that can be loaded). Currently the EXODUS II Reader has this capability.

You choose the action which will occur when a new timestep becomes available. Either the timestep will automatically update to the last timestep available or you can stay at the current timestep. For the latter, the End time value for the solution time dialog will update to reflect the new timestep availability, but the time will not be modified.

Click on the advanced button   to pop up the Solution time dialog. If the current dataset is set for timestep monitoring, the pulldown options for Monitor for new time steps will be available.

Click the Monitor for new time steps pulldown to decide what action will be taken when new timesteps are available.