Instruction manual

7 Using Settings 103
Categories Settings files can be organized into categories within a group. To create a new category in the
settings group, click on the Add Category button and name the category. You can add settings
files from the list of available settings to any category or root category. Settings added to the
root category are listed in the Settings menu below the other categories.
Helper Files Helper files are documents with experimental instructions, diagrams and illustrations that can
be linked to settings files and displayed on the computer screen when a settings file is
selected. On the DataTrax2 installation CD, WPI provides a laboratory manual and a settings
group for each of its kits. In the installation process, a .pdf copy of each individual lab exper-
iment in a manual is linked to the corresponding settings file in the settings group for that
manual. When the user selects a settings file to do a particular experiment, a .pdf copy of the
linked helper file (the experimental write-up) opens in Acrobat
Reader. The user now has a set
of instructions, on the computer screen, to follow as they do the experiment.
Users can associate their own helper files to their own settings files. Although, WPI has
chosen to attach .pdf documents to its setting files, any file (HTML, Word Perfect, MS Word,
etc.) can be linked to a settings file. To associate helper files with any settings file, place your
helper files in the same location as the settings file and give the helper file the same name as
the settings file name, but with the appropriate extension. For example, to associate a pdf, an
html and a jpg file with the Tutorial.iwxset settings file, copy the pdf, html and jpg file to the
same folder as the Tutorial.iwxset settings file. Name the pdf file Tutorial.pdf, the html file as
Tutorial.html, and the jpg file as Tutorial.jpg. Now when the Tutorial settings file is chosen in
DataTrax2, the Tutorial.pdf, the Tutorial.html and the Tutorial.jpg files will be opened.