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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existing textual comment in the current detail record.
Note: Leaving the Alert Message field blank will suppress the display of a visual
alert when the device action is triggered.
Balance Devices
Balance devices input weight information, measured in grams and precise to one
decimal place. This data is written to the weight
field in the current detail record.
The balance device type does not have any additional property settings.
Digitizer Tablets
Note: A handy mm ruler for your digitizer can be downloaded on P3 ftp site.
Digitizer tablets act as an external input device issuing commands to the application
or inserting comments into the current detail record
. The digitizer tablet uses
predefined digitizer maps
, so that when a user presses on a particular map cell, the
command associated with that cell, called a map command
, is sent to the application
for processing. If the user presses on the tablet outside of the physical digitizer map,
the position is translated into a length (in millimeters) and this information is written
into the length
field of the current detail record as shown below.
P3 supports two types of digitizer tablets: ASCII 2000 and WinTab.
ASCII 2000 Serial Digitizer Tablets
The ASCII 2000 tablets are serial devices
that communicate coordinate information
to the application using a CalComp ASCII 2000 format. The user must verify the
internal configuration settings of tablet are set to the ASCII 2000 format and that a
Carriage Return (CR) character is appended to all ASCII output.