CHART MANAGER UTILITY

Table 7-4 Chart Manager Menu Definitions

Menu

Label

Description

Help

Help Facility – Access detailed help information

 

about the Chart Manager.

 

 

* Window - indicates the windows for which this menu is active.

Creating Log Charts

Open the Chart Manager utility either from the Utility menu in the main EliteView program or from the Program Manager. Click on Open under the File menu and select a dBase file (*.dbf) that was generated by the Log Manager. Names for log files are based on the time the log file was generated, using a format of hhmmss (hh:hour, mm:minutes, ss:seconds). Information displayed in the log chart includes the following items:

 

 

Table 7-5 Log Chart Information

 

 

 

 

Parameter

Example

 

Description

 

 

 

 

Date

20050322

 

Date this event was recorded. Format for date is

 

 

 

yyyymmdd (yyyy:year, mm:month,dd:day).

 

 

 

 

Time

165506

 

Time this event was recorded. Format for time is

 

 

 

hhmmss (hh:hour, mm:minute, ss:second).

 

 

 

 

Difference

1086

 

Difference in value for consecutive events.

 

 

 

 

Interval

5

 

Time between consecutive events.

 

 

 

 

Rate

217

 

Rate of change in recorded value per second

 

 

 

 

Editing Data

The significant parameter displayed under the data summary chart and graphic display is the rate of change for the recorded value. If there are inconsistencies or extreme values for the rate that adversely affect your data summary or log charts, you can easily adjust these values. Using the edit cursor, double-click on any cell under the Rate column and change the recorded value. Remember that you can only change values for rate.

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