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addVANTAGE Pro 6.2 User Guide CHAPTER 4
The Events Viewer
Should you want to export all the data of a selected trend, you need to:
• Set the start date to the beginning of the database (Button 5 - Go to Begin)
• Select Custom in the Span Chooser (List 12), then select a reasonable
duration that shows all of the data on the Display tab.
Method 2: Export selected data sets only (copy to clipboard)
If you want to export only a few lines of data from the current screen, you can
copy them to the clipboard.
1. Select data you want to copy (Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click, as shown in
Figure 45).
2. Right-click in the body of the table and select Copy to clipboard from the
menu that appears.
3. Open a text editor or spreadsheet program such as Excel or OOo.Calc and
paste the contents of the clipboard.
Figure 45. Copying Selected Data into the Clipboard
Instrument View
If you click the Virtual Instruments button ( ), you can view trend data in one
other view (Figure 46), similar to what you might see on an instrument panel.
Figure 46. Trend Viewer Using Virtual Instruments
The Events Viewer
Use the Events viewer to see the events generated by nodes. To create an
Events viewer, click New Window and select Events Viewer.
You’ll notice that the toolbar is very similar to the Trend’s toolbar. You are not
able to print the Events viewer, but you can click to export the table values
to a PDF file. The other buttons up through the time span chooser are identical.
The differences after the span chooser are that the Events viewer has an
Acknowledge button, and no button for switching between views (only the
tabular view is available).
Properties
The Events viewer has extensive configuration possibilities to help you display
the events and alarms in the most appropriate way for your needs. In an active
Events viewer, click Properties to display the Events Options dialog shown in
Figure 49.