The Display Window - Viking PB-100 Application Note

O p e r a t i o n
O p e r a t i o n
A. Start, Stop and Clear Buttons
Clicking the "Start" command button at the bottom of any PB-
100 tab starts the polling process with the current data record.
The software initially checks to see if a PB-100 is connected. If
a PB-100 is found, the polling software checks (starting from
the first record) if the PC clock is greater than the assigned
polling time. If so, the Polling software automatically dials the
phone number associated with the device to be polled and then
waits for a response. If a valid "Device ID Code" is received the
information is logged to the "Success Log" with the message
"ID Received". If the polled device fails to respond within the
time allotted by the "Response Timer" setting, then the polling
software will either log "No Response" to the "Failure Log", or
try to poll again if the "Retry Counter" is set to greater than one.
If the polled device responds with an "Invalid ID", the "Error
Log" will receive "Invalid ID:" followed by the actual ID received.
Other possible Failure log errors are "User Cancelled", "No
Phone Number", or "PB-100 error".
The user may interrupt the polling process at any time by click-
ing the "Stop" button. When polling is manually stopped, the
information for the device currently being polled will be logged
to the "Failure Log" with the message "User Cancelled".
If polling is not currently in progress, the user may clear the "Success Log" or "Failure Log" displays by clicking the
appropriate "Clear" button on the "Display" tab. It is worth noting that this action does not clear the success.log and
failure.log files. To clear these files, browse to their locations and manually delete them. New success.log and fail-
ure.log files will be created the next time the PB-100 software is used.
B. The Display Window
The "Display" window shows the current polling activity in LIFO (Last In, First Out) fashion. Thus, the device record
response at the top of the display is always the most recent response received. If the polling activity is stopped, the
display logs can be scrolled through using their scroll bars and buttons. In addition, if more information is required on
a specific device record, double click the "Device ID Code" (ID:) or a telephone number (Ph:) in the record in either dis-
play window. This action brings up the "Information" tab, which will then display the full record for that device.
C. Poll Now
(see Diagram H)
The user can select a particular device record by any of the
previously described methods, and then switch to the
Schedule tab to poll the device manually. Clicking on the
"Poll Device Now" button will immediately perform polling for
the selected device. Clicking "Poll Device Now" polls only the
device record listed and then halts. The "Poll Device Now"
feature is a valuable tool to verify that a new or modified
device record contains the correct telephone number and
"Device ID Code."
D. Printing Records
By selecting the "Print" menu item the "Current Record,"
"Success Log," or "Failure Log" may be output to a printer.
Printing the "Current Record" prints only the single record
listed on the Information tab, while printing the "Success" or
"Failure" Logs prints only the response records currently
shown in the "Display" tab.
Note: The Print menu option does not allow you to print the
contents of the success.log or failure.log to the printer. To
print out the entire log files simply use a text editor program
such as Notepad or Microsoft Word to open the success.log
or failure.log file and print them from within the text editor
program.
(see Diagram G)
(see Diagram G)
(see Diagram H)
Diagram G
Diagram H