YSI Data Scout Advanced - Manual (Page 13)

to ALL the transducers assigned to the Run window. Click Cancel to only view the current unit selection or to close the window
without saving the changes.
2.5.2 CHANGING TEMPERATURE UNITS IN TRANSDUCER(S)
Use the same procedure detailed in the previous section, but select the Run window’s menu item Configure | Temperature Units (HiLi
Xdcr) instead. Temperature units will be displayed (for highlighted transducer). Click Cancel to close the window without saving
changes or select a different unit and click OK to save changes.
2.5.3 CHANGING OTHER OPTIONS IN TRANSDUCER(S)
Use the same procedure detailed in section 2.5.1, but select any of the other Run window’s menu items. If unfamiliar with the purpose
of any option, avoid changing it. The options in the second section of the sub-menu can only be changed if the highlighted Transducer
is unlocked first. An appropriate window appears showing the selected option. Select Cancel to dismiss this window after viewing its
current value without changing the option. Select OK to send the current or modified option value on the window to the selected
transducer or to ALL transducers. Some special Write Protected options may be viewed only but not modified by users (e.g., the Main
Cal. Coefficients).
2.6 MANAGING OTHER COMMON DATA SCOUT ADVANCED ACTIVITIES
Most Data Scout Advanced configuration activities are automatic, and remembered persistently in behind-the-scenes historical .ini
files. However, a few features must be manually configured (normally only once) after Data Scout Advanced is installed. Such
activities are discussed in this section. These configuration activities are only summarized here to bring them to your attention early.
Chapter 3 describes them more fully with pictures and examples.
2.6.1 CONFIGURING A FAVORITE TEXT EDITOR FOR REPORT VIEWING/PRINTING/ETC.
When any report or data file is generated by any Data Scout Advanced window, human-readable plain text files are generated. Data
Scout Advanced usually provides a File | View menu function on that window to allow the user to view the report file’s contents. By
default, Data Scout Advanced uses the Windows
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text editor NotePad for this purpose and a copy of this application opens in a
window already containing the text of the file to be viewed. After viewing the file, the user may also print, rename, copy, move, or
delete the file using other menu functions of NotePad. Since NotePad is limited as to the size of files that it can view or edit, the more
flexible WordPad text editor may also be used. Data Scout Advanced can be reconfigured so that NotePad is replaced by any suitable
text editor program that is installed on the PC.
Configure the Data Scout Advanced default text editor by selecting Configure | General Options (DSAdv) from the Data Scout
Advanced main window menu. On the window that pops-up, enter the full path name of the desired text editor application in the top
text box labeled Choose Path for Report Viewer (a favorite Text Editor). To avoid typing in a full path name, double-click this text
box, and a common dialog box opens allowing the user to navigate to any drive where the desired text editor’s .exe file is located. Then
highlight its file name and select Open. The full path name of this program is then transferred to the text box on the configuration
window. Finally, select OK on this window to save the full path name.
2.6.2 CONFIGURING DATA SCOUT ADVANCED TO HAVE AN ARCHIVE BASE PATH
Data Scout Advanced has a menu item File | Archive (DSAdv) on its main menu. It opens a window that is used to perform various
file maintenance functions on the many internal data files that Data Scout Advanced manages behind the scenes. These files are
normally kept, by default, in a series of subfolders of the Main Base Path. Data Scout Advanced is most efficient when allowed to
access all its internal files from the default Main Base Path subfolders on the user’s local hard drive at “C:\YSI\DSAdv\xxxxx”, where
‘xxxxx’ stands for a particular subfolder name. For example, all script logs of Data Scout Advanced are normally kept in the Cmd-Log
subfolder (C:\YSI\DSAdv\Cmd-Log). All data files of the Run window are normally kept in the Dat subfolder (C:\YSI\DSAdv\Dat).
For archive or backup purposes a second set of subfolders (with the same ‘xxxxx’ names) may also be defined by specifying a different
Archive Base Path. This alternate path allows all or certain Data Scout Advanced files to be copied or moved to like-named subfolders
on another disk drive (possibly a Network drive). When such an alternate base path is defined, the Archive window is expanded to
permit Delete, Move, and Copy file operations to be performed between like-named subfolders of the Main Base Path and the Archive
Base Path. The Archive window’s file manipulation operations are restricted to only these two sets of like-named folders.
To configuring the Archive Base Path select Configure | General Options (DSAdv) from the main menu of Data Scout Advanced. On
the window that appears enter the full path name of the desired base path in the third text box labeled Choose Base Path for Archive
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