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addVANTAGE Pro 6.2 User Guide CHAPTER 3
The Tools Menu
Options for Trends
These options serve two purposes:
1. At the top of the section, select the default view to use for a trend you
create when you select View Data from the context menu: graphic, table,
or instrument.
2. From the boxes that follow, define color defaults for the Graphic view of
new trends. You cannot use this dialog to change the colors in open or
existing trend panels.
Options for Events
Use these checkboxes to determine whether a new Events Viewer should Show
alarms, Show events, or show both.
Explorer Tab
Use the Explorer tab (Figure 24) to display the internal ID of each object in the
Explorer. You probably won’t need to activate Show Node IDs under normal use,
but it can be valuable when you are debugging the system or you need technical
support. You can also use this tab to install RTU diagnostics when you add RTU
stations in Explorer.
Figure 24. User Options Dialog, Explorer Tab
Crops Tab
Use the Crops tab (Figure 25) to view or change the Crop default start date, that
is, the date to start collecting data about the crops.
Figure 25. User Options Dialog, Crops Tab
This dialog shows which crops will be visible to the user in the Explorer context
menu. If a crop is not selected in this list, the user cannot add it to a node.
You also see an Automatically install crop extensions when the crop is created
checkbox. The addVANTAGE Pro software can automatically include disease
models and calculation extensions (collectively called crop extensions) usually
associated with the crop. If you select this checkbox, those defaults are
automatically added with the crop when it is added to a node. If this checkbox is
not selected, only the crop itself is added to the node. The user can select the
crop extensions separately—but only the extensions that are associated with the
crop.