Created Date: September 16,2009

Created by: milldrone

I am now using DL260 to log data, but I have trouble to export the data into an .csv or .txt file under the Data View Window. I 've no idea why it's always an empty file when I use the export function?

Benl,

Is the file totally empty? No Vmems, or addresses of any sort?

I do this all the time. So I know it works. To save time I will list what I do then we will go from there.

1. Presuming you have a data view open and populated with addresses and values. Right click on a "text area " of the data view, select "export " (I do "all "). A save file menu opens (name and location need to be filled out).

2. At this point I'm able to open the file with a spreadsheet (I'm an Open Office fan).

Created Date: September 16,2009

Created by: Benl

Benl,

Is the file totally empty? No Vmems, or addresses of any sort?

I do this all the time. So I know it works. To save time I will list what I do then we will go from there.

1. Presuming you have a data view open and populated with addresses and values. Right click on a "text area " of the data view, select "export " (I do "all "). A save file menu opens (name and location need to be filled out).

2. At this point I'm able to open the file with a spreadsheet (I'm an Open Office fan).

Thanks Milldrone, I did excactly what you told me, but still got nothing in the spreadsheet. I dont know if my DS 5.3 works good or not. Probably I need to reinstall the software, and do it again, and I also found that the HELP file can not be opened.

Created Date: September 17,2009

Created by: franji1

Wow. A new feature that I had no idea existed. Is my face red. :o

It's the 10th tip in the "tip of the day ". I recommend to everybody to look through those if you never have - you might find some other "cool " :cool: features. It mentions not just new features, but features that are not obvious, but are quite beneficial.

If you 've turned off Tip-of-the-Day to automatically pop up at start-up, you can manually bring it up under the Help menu: Help->Tip Of The Day

Created Date: September 17,2009

Created by: milldrone

It's the 10th tip in the "tip of the day ". I recommend to everybody to look through those if you never have - you might find some other "cool " :cool: features. It mentions not just new features, but features that are not obvious, but are quite beneficial.

This must be where I found the info to do this. As I was replying to this thread previously, I was looking for the item in the manual or help files. All I could find was this from the help files in DS5.3

Data View

The data view (Watch View) is used to monitor the status of selected PLC memory locations. You can build up a table of the memory locations to monitor and these can be saved to a file which can be retrieved later. You can have multiple data views, each viewing the same or different memory locations in the same or a different format (Binary, Hex, ASCII, etc.).

That just does not answer very many questions.