Menu bars – Basler Electric DGC-2020ES User Manual

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Entering an Activation Key

Select DGC-2020ES from the Device pull-down menu. Enter your Email Address and Activation Key
provided by Basler Electric. If you received an email containing the Activation Key, you can select all of
the text in the email and copy it to the Windows clipboard using normal Windows techniques. The Get
Data
button will extract the Device, Email Address, and Activation Key from the Windows clipboard and
paste it into the appropriate fields. Click the Activate button to continue. The Activate Device Plugin
screen is also found by selecting Activate Device from the Tools pull-down menu of the BESTCOMSPlus
main screen.

Figure 61. Activate Device Plugin

Menu Bars

The menu bars are located near the top of the BESTCOMSPlus window (see Figure 56). The upper menu
bar has five pull-down menus. With the upper menu bar, it is possible to manage settings files, configure
communication settings, upload and download settings/security files, and compare settings files. The
lower menu bar consists of clickable icons. The lower menu bar is used to change BESTCOMSPlus
views, save or load a BESTspace™ workspace, open a settings file, connect/disconnect, preview
metering printout, export metering, switch to live mode, and send settings to the DGC-2020ES.

Upper Menu Bar (BESTCOMSPlus

®

Shell)

Upper menu bar functions are listed and described in Table 21.

Table 21. Upper Menu Bar (BESTCOMSPlus Shell)

Menu Item

Description

File

New

Create a new settings file

Open

Open an existing settings file

Open File As Text

Generic file viewer for

*.csv, *,txt, etc. files

Close

Close settings file

Save

Save settings file

Save As

Save settings file with a different name

Export To File

Save settings as a

*.csv file

Print

Print, export, or send a settings file

DGC-2020ES

BESTCOMSPlus

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