Omron CX-Supervisor, User Manual

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Remote Data Log Viewer SECTION 11 Data Logging
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• The traces shown using trace selection dialog box as shown initially can
be changed using the "Select item" facility.
11-5 Remote Data Log Viewer
Data log files are not restricted to a machine that has CX-Supervisor installed
on it. CX-Supervisor is supplied with a "Data Log Viewer" application that
enables all the View and Export facilities (with the exception of Live updates)
to be carried out on .dlv files that have been transferred to a stand alone
machine.
11-6 Data Log Export Facilities
11-6-1 Exporting Data via the Export Dialog
All the export facilities described in the ExportLog function can be carried out
from the Export dialog box, which can be invoked from the CX-Supervisor right
menu, script or the Data Log Viewer:
Options include the following:
USE GENERATED FILES
If this option is checked, then filenames will be automatically created,
otherwise a "Save File As" dialog box will be displayed.
EXPORT TYPE
Controls whether export should be as comma-separated values files or as
text.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO EXPORT
Controls whether breaks, date, time and milliseconds are exported.
11-6-2 Generation of Comma Separated (CSV) Files
Both the ExportLog script function and the Export Dialog use the following
conventions for automatically generating comma-separated values files for
export:
All generated CSV filenames will contain at least the <Data Set name> +
<timestamp> and a .CSV extension. CSV is a format that is recognised
directly by spreadsheet packages such as Excel and can therefore be opened
and viewed with this application.
e.g.MyData Set1999011214.csv
No [ ] characters are used in the timestamp. This is for two reasons: