To facilitate the data
collection, Manual Logger provides
some predefined digital states
which correspond to
common conditions that the operators
may, may encounter when entering
data. Some of those common conditions
may be bad input,
instrument out of service, and so forth.
These predefined digital
states can be associated both
with digital tags or
some other types of data such as
regular float tags
or string values.
Let's see how we can configure Manual Logger
to make use of these predefined digital
states.
I am going to edit
my Experiment 190
Tour. I can open
the Tour and
below the center pane, where I
select the options for each one of the tags,
I can see an icon for the Digital States
or the Tour States.
By clicking on this icon, I can select
the Digital States that will be
available to every tag in the Tour.
There are a number of them
that I can select and include in
my Tour. In here, I am going to
select three of them:
No Alarm, High Alarm,
and Low Alarm, by
right-clicking on this Digital States.
Now I can add them to my Tour,
and click OK.
I am also going to
make another change to my Tour. I am going
to add one more tag which is going
to be a Digital Tag.
That
Digital Tag is going to be
PIML-DigitalState1.
Click OK. And now I
have that tag.
Let me go ahead and
move that tag to the first one
so I can quickly
demonstrate. Using this window, I can
re-order the tag sequence, and now
DS-1 is the first tag
that is going to show during the data collection
process. I click OK,
Save the changes, and Exit
my Tour so that I can perform
a Tour Run.
I am going to perform the
7:00 A.M. Tour Run,
and now, when collecting Tours,
I see my first
tag which is PIML-DigitalState1,
and in the Tag
Value Field, I can click on the
dropdown menu and
I will be able to see, first,
the available states
for my Digital Tag, and
next, the states that I
selected for under Tour
States, which were Low Alarm, No Alarm,
and High Alarm.
So, when we have a Digital Tag, we will
be able to see both the Normal
Digital States for that tag and the
ones that I selected for my Tour.
Let's say that I select Low Alarm
and move on to the next tag.
By clicking now on
the dropdown menu of the next
Tag Value, since that tag
is not a Digital Tag but a
Float Number, I can only see the
Digital States that I selected for the entire Tour,
and I can still select those
as a valid data for
that tag even though that tag is not a Digital
Tag. I can finish
my Tour by saving the data
and Exit.