Campbell Scientific LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software - Manual (Page 75)

Section 4. Setting up Datalogger Networks
The individual tables can be highlighted by clicking the table name. The
settings on the right side of the window apply to the highlighted table. The
name of the highlighted table appears at the top of the settings. Double
clicking a table name will toggle collection of that table on or off.
Included for Scheduled Collection – If this box is checked the specified table
is included in data collection. This can be changed either by clicking the check
box or double clicking the name of the table in the list.
Output File Name – This setting defines the file name and path for the output
data file that contains the data collected from the datalogger. Clicking the
browse button ( … ) at the right of the box will allow you to choose another
directory or file name for the collected data. The data from each table is stored
in a separate output file.
Use Default File Name – Checking this box will set the collected data file
name to the default value, which consists of the name of the station and the
name of the table.
File Output Option – This option allows you to choose whether new data
collected from the station is appended to the data file, overwrites the old data in
the data file, creates a new data file with a unique name, or is not stored to a
data file. The default option is to append to the data file so the old data is not
lost.
If the data file is used only for a real-time display or such that only the last data
collected is needed, overwrite will replace the old data with the newly collected
data.
If the data is only going to be used within LoggerNet for display on the
Connect Screen graph or Numeric Display, or for RTMC, you can choose no
output file and the data will only be kept in LoggerNet’s internal data cache
(see Appendix D.2, LoggerNet Server Data Cache, for more about the data
cache).
Output Format – Select the format for the output file.
ASCII, table data, no header – The data is output with timestamp
and data values separated by commas with no header. When this
option is selected, the Browse button to the right of the Output
Format field becomes available. It launches a dialog box from
which to specify if a timestamp and record number should be
included, if strings should be surrounded by quotation marks,
and whether midnight is specified as 2400 or 0000.
ASCII table data, short header (TOACI1) – The data is output in
Table Oriented ASCII format type 1 which has a two line header
and data formatted the same as the ASCII table format.
ASCII table data, long header (TOA5) – The data is output in
Table Oriented ASCII format type 5 which has a multi-line
header and data values separated by commas. When this option
is selected, the Browse button to the right of the Output Format
field becomes available. It launches a dialog box from which to
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