Setup Screen (EZ View)

The EZ View of the Setup Screen uses the EZSetup Wizard to walk you through the setup and configuration of your datalogger network, which is the first step in using LoggerNet with your dataloggers.

As you work through the steps for the Wizard, each screen has fields that are completed with the pertinent information about your station. After you have entered information for each field, press the Next button to move on to the next step. Once you have moved to the next step, you may return to any previous step(s) by pressing the Previous button.

Help is provided for each step of the Wizard. This is accessed by pressing the Help button.

After you have progressed through all steps of the Wizard, press the Finish button to save the configuration. To add another datalogger, press the Add button to open the Wizard again. If you want to change something in the datalogger setup, select that datalogger from the main window, and press the Edit button. The Wizard will open, and you can move through the steps using the Next button, or you can navigate quickly to a particular page in the Wizard by selecting it from the Progress column.

A datalogger can also be renamed or deleted by highlighting the station and pressing the appropriate button (Rename or Delete).

NOTE: Alternately, the Setup Screen (Standard View) can be used to set up the datalogger network.

Toolbar Buttons

Menu Items

File

Select Server - Allows you to select the LoggerNet server to which the Setup Screen should connect (available only in LoggerNet Admin/LoggerNet Remote).

Exit - Closes the Setup Screen.

View

EZ (Simplified) – Opens the EZ View of the Setup Screen.

Standard – Opens the Standard View of the Setup Screen.

Show Hints - When this option is enabled, hints for some fields will be displayed when the mouse is used to hover over the field. A check mark appears beside the menu item when enabled.

Network

The Network menu contains items with the same functionality as many of the toolbar buttons: Add, Delete, Rename, and Edit.

Manual Backup - Saves a copy of the network to a file, which can then be used to restore the network if necessary. The settings for all the devices in the network will be saved. The *.ini files for each of the applications will be also included in the backup. Ini files store settings such as window size and position, configuration of the data displays, etc.

When this menu item is chosen, the subsequent dialog box offers an additional option:

Include Cache Table Files in the Backup - If this check box is selected, LoggerNet Server Data Cache will be included in the backup.

After selecting Next, you will be provided with another dialog box that can be used to add files to the backup file. By default, user files, such as the *.dat files that are created when you collect data from a datalogger, the program files created by Edlog or CRBasic, and the files created when running Split, are not included in the backup. They can be added to the backup from this window if desired. When Next is selected again, you are prompted for a file name for the backup. After supplying a file name, you can choose to execute the backup or save the backup configuration file for later use.

A network backup file can also be created from a task, by LNBackup.exe. See Example #2 under Task Master for additional information on this utility.

Restore Network - Restores the network map from a backup file. Select the name of the backup file to restore from the first dialog box, and press Next.

Select whether or not network communications will be enabled, when the network is restored. Clear this checkbox if the network has scheduled collection enabled, but you do not want it to start as soon as the network is restored. Communications can later be enabled with the Setup Screen > Tools Menu > LoggerNet Server Settings > Datalogger Network Communications Enabled checkbox.

Press the Restore button.

NOTE: This backup will replace the existing network (it does not add to the existing network) and any existing files, including data files, program files, or Split files if they were included in the original backup.

Help

Setup Screen Help – Opens LoggerNet’s online help system to Setup Screen specific help.

About Setup Screen – Provides copyright and version number information for the Setup Screen.