Solmetric SunEye 210, User Manual

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Using the SunEye 210 Desktop Companion Software
Exporting and Generating Reports
Convert Report to Other Formats
The HTML report generated by the desktop companion software can be converted to other for-
mats such as .doc or .pdf by opening it in the appropriate editor (for example MS Word or
Adobe Acrobat) and then saving it as the file type you prefer.
In MS Word, there is a specific procedure that must be followed in order to convert HTML doc-
uments to .doc documents in which the images show up as permanent elements of the document
rather than as links:
MS Word 2003™
1 Open the .htm report in MS Word
2 From the Edit menu choose Select All . This will select everything in the document.
3 On your keyboard, press the key combination Ctrl-Shift-F9 together. This will convert all
external links to embedded content.
4 Go to File and choose Save As . Under Save as type select Word Document (*.doc) , then click
Save .
Microsoft Word 2007™
When saving a SunEye report to a single file document using Microsoft Word 2007, it is recom-
mended that you save it as PDF. The functionality to save Microsoft Word 2007 documents as
PDF documents is not enabled by default within Microsoft Word 2007, however, Microsoft pro-
vides a free Add-in that supplies this functionality, which can be downloaded from Microsoft.
The name of the Add-in is "Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS". Once this Add-in is installed, fol-
low these instructions to save a SunEye exported report as a PDF document.
1 From Microsoft Word 2007, go to the main menu and select "Open...".
2 Browse to the directory where you exported the .htm report. You will see two versions of the
report. Open the version that has "importable and printable" in the name.
3 Select "Save As", and under "Save as Type" select "PDF (*.pdf)".
Exported Data Files
The report also includes a table of hyper links to a number of data files, including comma-sepa-
rated-value (.csv) files. These .csv files can be opened directly in MS Excel
®
or other software
for further analysis.
Each .csv file has a header section at the beginning of the file that includes information such as
the session and skyline names. The end of the header information and beginning of the data is
always marked by the text
begin data
. The first line of the file describes the type of data and
includes a version number. For example,
Daily Solar Access 1.0
indicates that the file
is the daily solar access file and the file format is version 1.0. A description and example of each
file type is given below. In each file name the XX would be replaced by the skyline number (for
example, 01, 02, and so on for Sky01, Sky02, and so on).