User Manual

14 • Accessing a Common Database
Accessing a Common
Database
The GX-2012 Data Logger Management Program stores downloaded data
in a database file. This database file is automatically stored on the
computer’s hard drive in the same folder as the GX-2012 Data Logger
Management Program. In this configuration, a computer has access to its
own database but no other computer’s. Only data downloaded to that
computer may be viewed. If the database was set up on a network location,
multiple computers could access the same database. All computers
accessing that database could view all data that was downloaded from any
computer.
The GX-2012 Data Logger Management Program has the ability to map its
database along any other valid path to another file location. That file
location can be on the same computer or it can be on a network location.
Putting it on a network location allows multiple users to save data to and
access data from the same location. This allows access to instrument data
that was downloaded at another computer.
NOTE: Only one computer at a time may access the database, so only
one software installation mapped to a common database can be
running at a time. If two installations attempt to access the same
database, an error indication will occur when the second program
is launched.
To set up this new database path:
1. You must first determine where the database is going to be located and
make a note of that file path.
2. If the GX-2012 Data Logger Management Program hasn’t been
launched on the computer yet, you must launch and close the program.
This creates a GX2012.ini file that contains configuration settings. The
file is located in the GX-2012 folder in your computer’s Program Files.