Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Overview
- Configuration
- Configuration Profiles
- General Profile Settings
- Configuring Devices
- Activating Tag Actions
- Validation Constraints
- Audible Alert Sound Events
- Data Collection and Validation
- Importing and Exporting
- Tools
- Tag Actions
- Tag Action Manager
- Tag Action Settings and Commands
- Tip: the Replace command will import tag codes much faster than the Import command. Use the Import command only when appending a relatively small number of tag codes (less than 25k) to a tag action.
- Tip: the Delete All and Replace commands will generate a lot of empty space in the P3 database. We recommend running the Compact and Repair utility after running any of these commands to optimize the database.
- Tag Actions and Data Entry
- Digitizer Maps
- Searching Data
- Replacing Data Values
- Merging Tag Sessions
- Dot-Out Wizard
- Remove Dot-Outs
- Duplicate Viewer
- Validation Codes
- Database Maintenance
- Tag Actions
- Appendix
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Hardware Support
- Troubleshooting Common Tag Reader Problems
- Troubleshooting Common Digitizer Tablets Problems
- Digitizer Tablet Doesn't Register Pen Clicks
- WinTab Digitizer Tablet Won't Communicate with a PC
- ASCII Digitizer Tablet Won't Communicate with a PC via Serial Port
- Digitizer Tablet doesn't Communicate with P3
- Digitizer Tablet is Sending the Wrong Commands
- Digitizer Tablet is Sending Wrong Lengths
- Digitizer Tablet Hangs P3 when Connected via Baytech Multiport
- Operating the Destron 400 kHz Benchtop Tag Reader
- Configuring Calcomp Drawing Board III
- Index
Configuration
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Property Effect
Port Selects an RS-232 serial port that the device is connected to on
the PC. P3 supports serial ports ranging from COM1 to COM25.
Baud The baud rate determines the rate which data is sent to the PC
from the device. Baud rates range from 1200 to 115200.
Parity An error-detection method that checks the validity of a
transmitted character. P3 supports None, Odd, Even, Mark and
Space parity settings.
Data
Bits
All serial communications methods utilize some number of data
bits to represent a character or byte. A Data Bit is just one of
the data bits in a character or byte frame on the serial port.
Stop
Bits
A bit used to signal the ending of a character sequence. At least
one stop bit and often two or 1 ½ stop bits are employed.
Flow
Control
A method used to control the flow of data between two
communicating points, such as nodes, modems, or PCs.
Typically flow control is not used, but XON/XOFF is supported.
Tag Reader Devices
P3 supports a variety of Tag Reader
devices. Tag Readers, also known as
transceivers, decode and transmit PIT tag codes
; each of these codes is entered into
a new detail record
of an open tag session.
Reader devices have additional configuration settings to support the Device Actions,
as described below.