Projects

This section will discuss all the properties associated with a project and what they mean.

Name: A unique name that identifies the group.
Description: Optional, but useful to describe the group.
Enabled: Enables and Disables the group for logging.
Scan Rate: How frequently the items within the group should be polled by the data-source (such as an OPC Server).
Deadband: A percent where we do not want to record value changed events. For example if the deadband is 10 we would not record a change that was less than 10%.
Item Count: Displays the total number of items within the group.
Add: Adds an empty group to the project.
Remove: Remove Selected or Remove All groups from the project.
Properties: Opens the properties page for the highlighted group.

For more information refer to the Groups section.

Stop Logging: When the connection is lost data will stop being logged.
Resume Lost Connection: When the connection is lost the application will attempt to reconnect at a certain interval specified by the Reconnect Every. The valid range is between 1 second and 30000 minutes.

Data Store Name: A read-only value associated with the data storage component.
Enabled: Enables and Disables each data storage component for logging.
Add: Lists all available data storage components and adds them to the project.
Remove: Remove Selected or Remove All data storage components from the project.

Trigger: A read-only value associated with the trigger.
Enabled: Enables and Disables the effect associated with the trigger.
Effect: Start or Stop logging based on a trigger.
Description: Used to describe the action of the trigger.
Let triggers initiate logging: Logging will not start until a trigger fires with the effect Start logging data.
Add: List all available Triggers and adds them to your project.
Remove: Remove Selected or Remove All triggers from the project.
Properties: Opens the properties page for the highlighted trigger.