Tracking for beginners

Question

Hello, 
 I've heard some rumours about Track function. Great tool to manage movers, they say. I thought Tracking can keep mover in a position with all the parameters until there is some change of particular device in a cue maybe 50 cues later. I just tried to track a mover (112 + Track) and no miracle happend. Cobalt manual wasn't really helpful and I didn't find any article or tutorial to make this clear to me. Can you help or recommend something? 
 Thank you.

Richard · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately lighting control has a lot of reused terminology - perhaps the worst is Focus and Focus! In this case, "Track" can mean "Where and how are these channels used?", and "Update these channels all the way to the beginning/end of the scene" 
 The [Track] key opens the "Track List", a spreadsheet editor for viewing and changing values across many Presets, Cues, Groups, Palettes etc: 
 
 Set this channel to this level in these Presets 
 What levels do these channels use throughout this Sequence? 
 Are these channels in any Groups? (and which levels?) 
 Is this channel even used at all? 
 
 You wanted to do a tracked Update. 
 Tracked Updates are a modifier to the [Update] command: 
 
 [Update] & [@Level] - track changed Levels from here. 
 [Update] & [Attrib] - track changed Attributes from here. 
 
 In both cases you get a dialog where you can choose the direction - forward, backward or both. 
 See the "Track Editing" Help for more information.

JasonPerry · Answer

Track updates work when you have already recorded the show, but if you know you want the show to track from the beginning, you can record the presets to Move-Fade and record changed. Set it as your defaults because if you miss setting a preset it can cause issues and you will tear your hair out. (switching to move-fade after the fact doesn't work) 
 
Cobalt at its core is not a tracking desk, it can do it, but its not designed to.