Profile default output file name
Filename suffixes
Chapter 1: Introduction
The exact name of the file is specific to the device. For example, the RVSI VR4000 device driver creates a file with the name vialreaderresults.txt.
This file can only store data for one read, which means that the set of data for each read overwrites the last set in the file. To avoid this problem you must set up an output file naming convention.
Some device drivers allow more than one device of that type to be used in the lab automation system. In this case, each device must have its own profile. Even if you have only one device, you can still set up multiple profiles for it, with each storing different settings.
In these cases, you probably want each profile to have a separate default output filename to prevent the data from runs using one profile overwriting those of another.
To prevent the data from one read overwriting the data from another, you need to append a variable suffix to the file name. You can append a date/time stamp and one or more bar codes on the rack or plate.
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Example | The example output file folder below shows that a profile default file |
| name of output.txt was created at one time. At another time, a suffix was |
| appended in the profile for the device driver, which added a barcode |
| identifier to the file name (for example output_C100040329.txt). |