Campbell Scientific LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software - Manual (Page 53)

Section 3. Introduction
For straightforward “measurement/control/data storage” datalogger programs,
the Short Cut program generator is an excellent choice for datalogger program
creation. Short Cut prompts you for the type of datalogger, scan interval,
sensors to be measured (including those on multiplexers and other peripherals),
and desired final storage output. It then creates the program for you, along
with a wiring diagram showing how each of the sensors should be connected to
the datalogger. Short Cut’s resulting programs can even be imported into
Edlog or CRBasic Editor when you want to get a head start on more elaborate
programs. Short Cut is also available from the Campbell Scientific website
(www.campbellsci.com) so you can update it with newer sensor files as they
become available.
While Short Cut programs can be imported into Edlog or the
CRBasic Editor, once they have been edited in one of these
programs, the modified program cannot be imported back into
Short Cut.
The CRBasic Editor is a program editor for the CR200 Series, CR1000,
CR3000, CR800 Series, CR5000, and CR9000 dataloggers. Instructions are
included for sensor measurement, program and peripheral control, data storage,
and peer-to-peer data transfer. The editor checks for program validity and
offers many user-configurable options to make editing long programs easier.
Edlog is the tool to create and edit datalogger programs for all Campbell
Scientific dataloggers except the CR200 Series, CR1000, CR3000, CR5000,
CR800 Series, and CR9000. Instructions are available for sensor
measurement, intermediate processing, program and peripheral control, and
data storage. The built-in precompiler provides error checking and warns of
potential problems in the program. For Edlog dataloggers with PakBus
operating systems, you can include settings for PakBus routing in the
datalogger program itself.
For those users of CR10X or CR510 dataloggers and Edlog programming who
are switching to CR1000 dataloggers (or CR23X users switching to CR3000
dataloggers), a Transformer utility has been developed. The Transformer reads
in an Edlog CSI or DLD file and generates a CRBasic program file. The two
files are displayed side-by-side for comparison purposes; double-click an
instruction in the Edlog program, and the associated instruction is highlighted
in the CRBasic program. Edlog program instructions that cannot be converted
directly to a CRBasic program instruction are listed in a Messages window and
are included as commented text in the CR* file. After conversion, the newly
created CR* file can be opened in the CRBasic Editor for further editing.
3.2.8 Working with Data Files
LoggerNet includes applications that allow you to view and process the data
collected from the dataloggers. These include the file viewer, View Pro, a
report generation tool, Split, and CardConvert (a binary data file file
converter).
View Pro is used to inspect data files, from either mixed-array or table data
dataloggers. You can also view data from an LNDB database. The data is
displayed in a tabular format by record or array. Data values can then be
chosen to display graphically on a line graph, histogram, XY plot, rainflow
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