Vaisala Hydromet Data Collection Platform - Manual (Page 171)

Chapter 5 ________________________________________ Advanced Use of Lizard Setup Software
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Automatic Report Formatting
On the Advanced user level, you can also format or compress reports.
This function is particularly useful when you need to transfer data using
methods that are costly or otherwise limit the amount of data sent, for
example, satellite transfer systems and SMS messages.
Automatic report formatting is only available for string form reports.
You can choose the formatting method before setting up the report or
you can change it later on. Vaisala does not provide software for
unformatting formatted reports.
Lizard Setup Software offers two methods for automatic report
formatting: BASE32 and BCD report formats.
The BASE32 report formatting method produces ASCII data and thus
printable characters. With this method, every measured value is scaled
and converted using a radix of 32 instead of 10.
The BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) method is a Positional Number
System, with a radix of 10 and coefficients expressed in 4-bit binary
words. The BCD formatting method produces non-printable binary
reports.
You can access these formatting methods from the Report Formatting
combo box in the Report Format frame of the Reports view; see
Figure 83 on page 170 . Make sure that you have selected the Report
tab.