Operating instructions

M300USERSGUIDE SEA
PROJECTMANAGEMENT  91
PROJECTMANAGEMENT
This section of the M300 Users Guide provides assistance with setting up and managing M300
projects. An M300 project is a directory with all of the necessary configuring files necessary to run a
particular project. These files include the configuration files for the data displays of that particular
project. This guide, used in conjunction with the rest of the M300 Users Guide and the M300
Reference Guide, should give you a good technical support base for the configuration and
management of your own projects.
Note: M300projectssho uldbebackedupregularly.Saveallproject files(i.e.*.300,*.wnd,*.asc,etc.)from
theprojectdirectory.Otherdirectories(i.e./m300,/project,/maps,etc.)mayhavetobebackedupaswell.
Note: Itisrecomm endedthatbeforeyoubegintosetupnewprojects,youcompletelyfamiliarizeyourself
withtheM300MainWindow.Duringtheseinstructions,wewillrefertothiswindowoften.
Note: ProjectsetuprequiresastrongdegreeoffamiliaritywithM300setuptablesandconfigurationfi les.If
youfeelyourequireassistancewiththis,pleasecontactSEATechSupport.
Configuring a basic project is not that difficult. The M300 supports such a broad base of acquisition
sources. M300 must know, for each project, exactly what data to acquire, record, display, etc.
When working with a M300 project, the user should click on the Stop button first before making
changes to the Project. The M300 doesn’t care about the changes being made.
Once the changes are made to the M300 project, the user must hit the Play button (if M300 was
running, it must be stopped first before you can click Play).
There is more than one way to set up a new project under the M300. A user may copy the contents
of one project directory into the contents of another project directory and rename it. Another
method is to create a new directory for the project and develop the configuration files from scratch.
We recommend using the /check directory for general purpose type projects for the user to test
different aspects of the M300 system. We will use the /check directory in this book.
If the /check doesn’t exist in your system, then run the following commands.
sudo mkdir /check
sudo chmod a+ w /check
We also assume M300 is running, when we give the instructions in this book.