We have already seen
how we have an ability to schedule our
Tours which provides a guide to the user
for the collection times.
The ability to establish a
Tour Schedule and a different
individual schedule for each
one of the tags helps us
to determine what tags need to be collected
with each run.
In addition to this, the Schedule
can be used as the default
timestamp for that data that is being collected
for each one of the tags.
Let's see an example of this.
Let me close this
window. Let's work with Experiment
190. I am going to open this
Tour so that I can change some of the options
that I have in here. I can see how
this Tour was scheduled
for hourly collection.
So the Tour will be collected
hourly. Now,
each one of the tags has a different
Collection Schedule.
PIML-Float10 will be collected every
two hours or for every other Tour.
If I click on
Tour Options,
in here there is an option called
Navigate through due tags
only (for the mobile device.)
By checking this option,
what we are enabling is
the ability for
the Data Collector to see only
the tags that
need to be collected during that Tour.
So, for instance, in this Tour, which
we are collecting every hours, we have a tag
that will be collected every two hours or
every other Tour. If we check
this option, and we are using our PDA
to collect the data, then
we will only see the Tour -- or rather
the tag that has the frequency
of every two hours, in every
other Tour. And we will not see that tag
every Tour. Only
when the da... when the tag is due
we will see the tag in the field
to enter the data.
That only works for the PDA.
Additionally,
let me go back to Tour Options. There is a
Tab under Tours for the Timestamp.
In here, we see
that we have options to allow
the Tour Timestamp to be changed,
both for the Tour and for each
one of the tags. What this means
is that when we perform a Tour Run
and we are collecting data, we can
change the Default Time
that is being displayed when we
begin the Tour. So far, we have
seen examples that every time that we begin a Tour,
the Tour Time
is going to be the Default
Time for that Tour. So, for instance, if
we had Hourly Tours at 9,
10,11 -- that's going to be the Default
Time for my data collection. However,
by checking this first
option, we can change that
time from 9, 10, 11,
to the Current Timestamp when the data
is actually being collected, which may
be 9:05, 10:06,
11:10.
That is the case for both the
entire Tour Run and each one of the tags.
So, let's perform a
Data Collection Run
and see how it works.
For Experiment 190, I am going
to perform a New
Tour Run at 6:53 A.M.,
and because the Tour is Hourly,
that's going to be the Default Time.
However, when I am collecting data
for the first tag, I can enter my Value
and change the Time.
Let's say that the data was collected at
7:00 A.M.
That will be the timestamp
for that data or that Value that
was collected. I can now Save
and Exit.