Atlas Copco PowerMACS 4000, User Manual

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Basic Functions
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You cannot create (or delete) reporters for the Screen, that is the ToolsTalk PowerMACS Cycle Data
window, or the Trace, that is the cycle data display in the Trace window. On the other hand, these
reporters are always available in the system.
If wanted, specify an additional name of the reporter. If you create a reporter of type Printer and you add
the name HP6P you can later find a menu item
Reporter - Printer HP6P that corresponds to this reporter.
The additional name specified for a File or Excel File reporter is used as the name of the result file. For
each File reporter two files are created. The first have the character “1” appended to its name and the
second, which is created when the first file is full, the character “2”. When the second file is full then the
first will be overwritten. All files are created in the directory
Log located in the directory where you to install
ToolsTalk PowerMACS.
The Excel File reporter can only be used if Microsoft Excel is installed on the PC that ToolsTalk
PowerMACS is running on. If Excel cannot be started the data is written to a text file with extension *.txt
instead. This text file is formatted in a format suitable for Excel. To import the text file from Excel follow do
as follows:

From inside Excel choose File/Open.
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In the Open dialogue box select "Text files (*prn; *.txt; *.csv)" as "Files of types". Then select your
file and press Open.
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In the Text Import Wizard - Step 1: Select "Delimited" in the frame marked "Original dat type" and
press Next.
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In the Text Import Wizard - Step 2: Check "Tab" in the frame "Delimiters" and press "Finish".
Please note that if the destination Excel file is locked by another user ToolsTalk PowerMACS will fail to
write data to it. In these cases ToolsTalk PowerMACS will create a new file named
Name_DataWhenFileWasLocked_YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS".xls
where "Name" is the original name assigned to file and "YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS" is the current date and
time (example: "Excel1_DataWhenFileWasLocked_20020514-125932.xls"). The temporary file will be
used until the next time you go off-line.
When ready with the first page then press Next >> to display the next page of the wizard. If needed,
depending on the type of reporter, you will be asked for some additional information. For an API reporter it
looks like this: