Now that we know how to create a Tour
and select some of its basic options,
I would like to show you what are some of the
individual options for each one
of the tags that are, that are available in
Manual Logger. Let's see an example.
This is the Welcome Window for
Manual Logger, and if I click on Manage Tours,
I will be able to see a list of
all of the existing Tours. There is a Tour
here called Experiment 190.
I can open the Tour by double-clicking on it.
I will immediately see
information on the Tour.
In the left pane, I will see the Tour Name,
Description, and all of the other
options that I selected. On the right, I
will be able to see the tags for which I am going
to collect information, and some of their
attributes.
In the center pane, I will
be able to see information for each
one of the tags.
By highlighting the appropriate tag --
in this case, PIML-Float10 --
I will be taken to the options
for that individual tag. In the
first tab, called Tag Configuration,
I can see the Name of the tag
being displayed. I can also see an
option for a, a barcode.
If my computer was connected to
barcode equipment, I could select
a barcode that will help me navigate
to the appropriate tag during data
collection. So, when I was
collecting data on a specific component
or equipment, I could scan
that component, and Manual Logger
would immediately navigate to the
appropriate tag, in this case PIML-
Float10, and then I will be able
to manually enter the data.
So the barcode is a way to
assist me in the navigation
to the appropriate barcode. This is
very helpful when you are collecting
data on similar
equipment or units that are similar
in order to prevent mistakes
or entering the incorrect data
in an incorrect tag.
There is also a CommentTag
Option. What this is going
to allow me to do is to enter comments and
observations during data collection.
The comments and observations can then be stored
in two different ways.
One way to enter comments
is by selecting a Comment Tag.
If I select,
let's say, PIML-
String1
to store my comments,
then the observations that I make
during data collection will be stored
in this tag separate from
PIML-Float10.
If I leave this field blank,
my observations will be stored as
annotations to PIML-Float10
which becomes part of the
data that the tag
contains.
There is an option under Tour Options
that allows me to
save those comments under both
the Annotation and the Comment Tag
if one is selected. I will
go ahead and uncheck that
option for now so I can show you what is the difference
when saving comments under Annotations
and under a Comment Tag.
Click OK.
I am going to skip the Tag
Group for now. The other
option is a Collection Schedule which can
be different than the Collection Schedule for the Tour.
I can see that the Tour is scheduled to be collected
every hour, but if I only wanted
to collect this specific tag
every two hours, I can set or
specify that different frequency
by choosing hourly every
two hours. Let's say you are starting
at midnight, click OK,
and now, this
specific tag is scheduled to be collected
every two hours.
So while I am going to be conducting the Tour every
hour, I will only be conducting
or collecting information for this specific tag
for every other Tour.
And then I can have Operator Instructions
for this specific tag.
So, let's go
ahead and
enter some
instructions.