The SCT is most often used to display time series data, but you can use it to display integer-indexed slots instead. A new SCT is set up for time series data by default. If you want to include integer-indexed data, you must explicitly specify that before adding any slots; see Specify the type of slot indexing for the SCT. Once you start adding slots of one type, you cannot switch to the other.

Some SCT functionality is not available for integer-indexed SCTs. Following are the ways in which the menus and dialog boxes in an integer-indexed SCT differ from those in a time series SCT.