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Chapter 7 Get Data Software
7.1 Overview
The Get Data Software is a 16 bit software package that runs under the Microsoft Windows™ 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ XP
Operating Systems and enables the user to export files to spreadsheets such as Excel
produced by the Recorder are in a proprietary format and must be read with our software.
7.2 Microsoft Windows™ Installation
Exit from any open applications. Place the supplied 3½" disk into your floppy drive. Select Start, Run. Type in
A:\SETUP or B:\SETUP depending on which drive you inserted the floppy disk into. Press the OK button. This will
run the setup program which will automatically install your software. You will be asked to enter the destination drive
and directory where you wish to have the software installed. If you do not wish to accept the default, type in the
destination you want and press Enter or click the "OK" button. Follow the instructions.
To run the program, double-click on the icon on your desktop or use the Start button and select it from the
Programs list.
7.3 The Menu
The menu bar displays the primary selections available and each selection controls a specific portion of the
program. In this case the only available menus are Export, Exit, and Help.
The simplest method of accessing the menu is with the mouse. Simply position the mouse pointer on the menu
selection required and press the left mouse button. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard by pressing and
holding the 'Alt' key and then pressing the highlighted (underlined) letter of the top menu option. To make selections
from the sub menus, just type in the underlined letter of the desired selection. A third method is to press and
release the 'Alt key; then use the arrow keys to move around through the menus.
The menu items are as follows:
7.3.1 Export
This menu item takes the information from the file created by the Recorder and creates a file that can be read
by other programs. Graph or Alarm/Event data can be exported in comma separated variables format (CSV),
which can be read by word processing and spreadsheet programs.
7.3.1.1 Exported File Format – Graph Data
To export graph data, select File, Export. From the first dialog
box, select the disk filename(s) that has(have) the source data
that you want to be exported. The file will have a *.DT* extension.
Then the Export Dialog window will be presented as shown in
Figure 7-1. The Export Dialog Box is explained in the next section.
7.3.1.2 Export Dialog Box
The Export Dialog Box allows the user to select the start and end
times, the format for the time and date, and optionally break the
data up into smaller files based on a time interval.
The data is stored in engineering units as setup on the Recorder
(e.g. degrees C, Volts, pressure, etc.). Temperature, for example, is exported in actual degrees.
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Figure 7-1 Export Dialog Box
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