User Guide - Eurotherm Ltda

nanodac RECORDER/CONTROLLER: USER GUIDE6.5 WATCH/RECIPE EDITORThe watch/recipe editor is opened by clicking on the Watch/Recipe tool icon, by selecting ‘Watch/Recipe’in the ‘Views’ menu or by using the short cut +. The window is in two parts: the left part containingthe watch list; the right-hand part containing one or more data sets, initially empty and unnamed.The Watch/Recipe window is used:1. To monitor a list of parameters. This list can contain parameters from many different, and otherwiseunrelated parameter lists within the same device. It cannot contain parameters from different devices.2. To create ‘data sets’ of parameter values which can be selected and downloaded to the device in thesequence defined in the recipe. The same parameter may be used more than once in a recipe.Figure 6.5 Watch/Recipe Editor window (with context menu)6.5.1 Creating a Watch ListAfter opening the window, parameters can be added to it as described below. The values of the parametersupdate in real-time, allowing the user to monitor a number of values simultaneously.ADDING PARAMETERS TO THE WATCH LIST1. Parameters can be click-dragged into the watch list from another area of the iTools window (for example,the parameter explorer window, the graphical wiring editor, the browse tree). The parameter isplaced either in an empty row at the bottom of the list, or if it is dragged on top of an already existingparameter, it is inserted above this parameter, with the remaining parameters being moved down oneplace.2. Parameters can be dragged from one position in the list to another. In such a case, a copy of theparameter is produced, the source parameter remaining in its original position.3. Parameters can be copied + and pasted + either within the list, or from a sourceexternal to it, for example the parameter browse window or the graphical wiring editor.4. The ‘Insert item...’ tool button the ‘Insert Parameter’ item in the Recipe or context menu or theshort cut can be used to open a browse window from which a parameter is selected for insertionabove the currently selected parameter.DATA SET CREATIONOnce all the required parameters have been added to the list, select the empty data set by clicking on thecolumn header. Fill the data set with current values using one of the following methods:1. Clicking on the ‘Capture current values into a data set’ tool icon (also known as the ‘SnapshotValues’ tool).2. Selecting ‘Snapshot Values’ from the Recipe or Context (right-click) menu.3. Using the short cut +.Page 274HA030554Issue 7 Nov 12