
Data Management 10
CrystalControl Operation Manual
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DATA MANAGEMENT
In order to provide for a exible reporting solution, CrystalControl is capable of directly interfacing with Microsoft® Excel to paste recorded run data for
archiving, reporting, graphing, and analysis. CrystalControl Excel templates must be in Excel 2003 (.xlt) format, and exported Excel les will be in Excel 2003
(.xls) f
ormat. This section assumes some familiarity with Excel.
Exporting Data
One of CrystalControl’s greatest strengths is the ability to create a multitude of .xls/.csv les using an Excel template. This allows the data le to be fully cus-
tomized, including the use of graphics and foreign languages. CrystalControl creates data les by lling an Excel template with the appropriate stored data,
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eplacing tags that identify the elds that are to be lled. Specically, CrystalControl does search-and-replace operations in the template worksheet named
“Data”. Refer to Excel Template Tags for a list of tags that can be included in the data les.
CrystalControl uses the template le specied in the Settings. You can edit this setting by going to Tools menu, selecting Settings, and choose the Export Data
Settings tab. You can either Browse to a new template you have created, or edit the existing template by using Windows to browse to the currently selected
le. By default, CrystalControl uses a template le titled “nVisionDataView” that is located in the Public or Shared Documents folder (Windows Vista or 7: Public
Documents\Crystal Engineering\CrystalControl\Templates), (Windows XP: Shared Documents\Crystal Engineering\CrystalControl\Templates).
Due to the limitations of Excel 2003 it is only possible to graph a total of 32,000 rows of data into any one graph. If your downloaded run is greater than 32,000
data points, subsequent data will be moved to a newly created sheet(s) in the same le where you may create a new graph. Comma Separated Value (.csv)
data will all be exported to one le regardless of the number data points. The PDF and Signed PDF options will graph all logged data points and include the
.xls and .csv les as attachments.
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