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DriveWare® User’s Manual

DriveWindow 2
DriveWindow 2

User’s Manual

®
DriveWare

Code: 3BFE 64560981 REV F

EFFECTIVE: 01.07.2004

 2004 ABB Oy. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - General

Chapter 2 - User Interface

Chapter 3 - Workspace and Preferences

Chapter 4 - Parameters and Signals

Chapter 5 - Controlling Drives

Chapter 6 - Trends

Chapter 7 - OPC Server

Chapter 8 - System Software

Chapter 9 - Miscellaneous

Chapter 10 - Advanced Information

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Chapter 1 - General

Contents
1. What is DriveWindow ..................................................................................................................1-1
1.1.1 Highlights .........................................................................................................................1-2
1.1.2 What is DriveWindow? ....................................................................................................1-2
1.1.3 DriveWindow features: ....................................................................................................1-2
1.1.4 DriveWindow functions: ...................................................................................................1-2
1.1.5 Required DriveWindow hardware:...................................................................................1-2
1.1.6 DriveWindow supports:....................................................................................................1-2
1.1.7 DDCS network topology: .................................................................................................1-3

2. Hardware and Software Requirements......................................................................................1-3

2.1.1 Computer.........................................................................................................................1-3
2.1.2 DDCS Communication ....................................................................................................1-3
2.1.3 Software...........................................................................................................................1-3
2.1.4 Win 2000 and Win XP .....................................................................................................1-3

3. Installing and Uninstalling ..........................................................................................................1-3

3.1.1 Installing...........................................................................................................................1-4
3.1.2 Installing Hardware in Windows NT.................................................................................1-6
3.1.3 Installing and Uninstalling Hardware in Windows 2000 and Windows XP ......................1-6
3.1.4 Uninstalling DriveWindow................................................................................................1-6

4. Local and Remote Use ................................................................................................................1-8

4.1.1 Local Use.........................................................................................................................1-8
4.1.2 Remote Use.....................................................................................................................1-9
4.1.3 Installing for Remote Use ..............................................................................................1-10

5. On-line Help ................................................................................................................................1-10

5.1.1 Win 2000 and Win XP ...................................................................................................1-10
5.1.2 Opening Help.................................................................................................................1-11
5.1.3 Context Sensitive Help ..................................................................................................1-11
5.1.4 Help Structure................................................................................................................1-12

1. What is DriveWindow
DriveWindow is an easy-to-use 32 bit Windows Application for commissioning and maintaining ABB
premium drives equipped with fiber optic communication. DriveWindow provides the commissioning
personnel with a powerful tool, which provides also remote connection possibility.

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1.1.1 Highlights
• Good for ACS600, ACS800, ACS6000, and DCS600 drives
• Working simultaneously with multiple drives like master and slave drives
• Uses DDCS communication protocol
• Signal monitoring in numerical and graphical format
• Working with drive parameters
• Remote connection via LAN, intranet
• Views the actual status of the connected drive
• Graphical trending
• Data logger(s) functions
• Fault logger functions
• Complete backup, which makes it possible to make a spare part card at site
• Win NT/2000/XP

1.1.2 What is DriveWindow?

• OPC based commissioning and maintenance tool
• Including DriveOPC (OPC server for DDCS-network)
• Tool for remote connections (installation in both ends)
• Operating system Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• Fully 32-bit code

1.1.3 DriveWindow features:

• DriveWindow uses DDCS communication
• Remote use via intranet is possible (all functions included)
• Modern user interface
• Full access to all DDCS drives

1.1.4 DriveWindow functions:

• Control operations (start, stop, references, etc.)
• Monitoring (signals)
• Parameters (changing values)
• Datalogger (controls, display)
• Fault Logger (display faults, controls)
• Back-up & Restore (complete software back-up)
• All functions over network (control, monitoring, etc.)

1.1.5 Required DriveWindow hardware:

• ISA card, or
• PCMCIA-card (PCMCIA-slot or PCI-slot with PCI/PCMCIA adapter)
• Network adapter when using remote connection
• DDCS cabling

1.1.6 DriveWindow supports:

• Maximum 10 DDCS channels (5 under Windows NT)

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1.1.7 DDCS network topology:

• Ring, or
• Tree (with optical distributors)
See Also: Local and Remote Use

2. Hardware and Software Requirements

2.1.1 Computer
• IBM compatible PC
• Pentium 150 MHz or a faster processor recommended
• 64 MB RAM
• At least 40 MB free hard disk space
• CD drive
• free ISA, PCI or PCMCIA-slot
The PCI slot can be used only for PCI/PCMCIA adapter.

2.1.2 DDCS Communication

• NISA-03 ISA card, or
• NDPA-02 PCMCIA-card (PCMCIA-slot or PCI-slot with PCI/PCMCIA adapter)
• DDCS cabling
• Network adapter when using remote connection
If DriveWindow is used only as a remote client, just the network adapter is required.

2.1.3 Software
• Win NT, or
• Win 2000, or
• Win XP

2.1.4 Win 2000 and Win XP

Since version 2.01, DriveWindow can be used also under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
This documentation is made for Windows NT. There are some minor differences in the outlook of the
user interface, when DriveWindow is run under Win 2000 or Win XP. Some instructions, which do not
concern DriveWindow directly, but use of other programs, may differ much more, especially in details.
See Also: Limitations

3. Installing and Uninstalling

More information can be found in README.pdf (or ReadMe.htm), which reside in the root folder of the
installation CD. After installing DriveWindow, the documents can be found also in the DriveWindow
installation folder.
Especially, if your operating system is Windows 2000 or Windows XP, we recommend that you read
the instructions from README.pdf (or ReadMe.htm).

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3.1.1 Installing

Please read carefully the licence agreement (Licence.pdf or Licence.htm) before installing
DriveWindow.
You should quit all applications before starting the installation. We recommend that you uninstall all
previous versions of DriveWindow 2 or DriveOPC before installing. It is not necessary to uninstall
DriveWindow 1.x. You can still use DriveWindow 1.x, as long as you do not use DriveWindow 2 and
1.x simultaneously.
Note! You must have Administrator privileges to be able to do the installing.

Your PC may be configured in such a way that when you insert the DriveWindow installation CD into
your CD drive, installation starts automatically. Answer the questions and follow the instructions given
by the installation program.
If installation does not start automatically, you can start the SETUP program from the Control Panel as
follows.
Start the Control Panel program and double click Add/Remove Programs.

Click the Install... button.

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Insert the DriveWindow installation CD into your CD drive and click the Next > button.

If the proper SETUP was not found automatically, enter E:\SETUP.EXE into the Command line for
installation program (assuming E: is your CD drive), or click the Browse... button and select the
program by browsing.
Finally click the Finish button, which starts the SETUP.

Answer the questions and follow the instructions given by the installation program.

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3.1.2 Installing Hardware in Windows NT

We recommend that you install DriveWindow before installing any hardware.

Instructions for installing NISA-03 and DDCS/PCMCIA (NDPA-02) boards are not given here. See
README.pdf (or ReadMe.htm) for detailed instructions.
Note that under Windows NT DriveWindow supports only one NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA board.

3.1.3 Installing and Uninstalling Hardware in Windows 2000 and Windows XP

We recommend that you install DriveWindow before installing any hardware.

Instructions for installing NISA-03 are not given here. Note that since version 2.02, DriveWindow
includes a plug and play compatible driver for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It means that the
installed NISA-03 boards have to be introduced to the operating system (Add Hardware), before they
can be used. See README.pdf (or ReadMe.htm) for detailed instructions.
Since version 2.01, DriveWindow includes a plug and play driver for NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA, which
can be run under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The driver is copied into the hard disk when
DriveWindow is installed.
Windows 2000 or Windows XP plug and play system starts installing the driver the first time a
NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA board is found in a PCMCIA slot.
We recommend that you install DriveWindow before the NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA board. If you do it
the other way round, the driver is not available at a proper place. It means that the driver installation
either fails at that moment, or Windows tells that the driver is not working properly. However, installing
DriveWindow should force Windows to reinstall the driver the next time it finds a NDPA-02
DDCS/PCMCIA board.
Although not absolutely necessary, we recommend that you always shut down your PC when inserting
or removing a NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA board.
Note that since version 2.02, DriveWindow supports up to 10 NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA boards under
Windows 2000 and Windows XP. However, if you have a mixture of NISA-03 and NDPA-02 boards,
the total number of channels supported is 10.
Please read README.pdf (or ReadMe.htm) for further details, especially about installing and
uninstalling the plug and play driver.

3.1.4 Uninstalling DriveWindow

Note! If your operating system is Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and DriveWindow is the last
installed application, which uses a NDPA-02 DDCS/PCMCIA board or a NISA-03 DDCS/ISA
board, you should uninstall the plug and play (compatible) drivers before uninstalling
DriveWindow. Please read README.pdf (or ReadMe.htm) for details.

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While in the Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog box of the Control Panel, browse for
DriveWindow 2 (or DriveWindow 2.0, if the installed version is 2.0x) in the Install/Uninstall tab, select it
by clicking, and click Add/Remove....

After you have confirmed file deletion, uninstalling starts.

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If you have added files into the installation folder or into its sub-folders, there is a message in the
Remove Programs From Your Computer dialog box telling that some elements could not be removed.

4. Local and Remote Use

4.1.1 Local Use

Usually DriveWindow is used locally.

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The environment consists of User, PC, Drive Communication Links, and Drive Controllers (Drives).

4.1.2 Remote Use

In addition of using DriveWindow locally, it can also be used remotely (i.e., the PC operated by the user
is connected by a network to the PC containing the drive communication links).
The environment consists of User, two PCs connected through a network, Drive Communication Links,
and Drive Controllers (Drives).

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You need to have DriveOPC installed in the remote PC. Note that DriveOPC is included in
DriveWindow, so installing another DriveWindow at the remote end also installs DriveOPC.
If installation and configuring are done properly at both ends, the remote end can be contacted by
checking From a Remote PC (address) in the Select OPC Server dialog box shown when
DriveWindow starts. The name or IP address of the remote end computer has to be entered into the
field below it. Clicking OK connects DriveWindow to the OPC Server at the remote end.

Configuring a computer to serve as remote end does not prevent DriveWindow to be used locally in
that computer, too.

4.1.3 Installing for Remote Use

DriveWindow has to be installed at client end. At remote end you can either install DriveWindow or
DriveOPC.
At the client end there is no need for communication boards if the client end uses DriveWindow only
remotely.
At the remote end DriveWindow or some other OPC client program has to be started locally after the
installation to check the proper installation of the drive communication boards.
See Also: OPC Server
Advanced Information

5. On-line Help
DriveWindow includes a comprehensive on-line help. Actually, the user manual and on-line help
contain the same information.

5.1.1 Win 2000 and Win XP

On-line help is made for Windows NT. There are some minor differences in the outlook of the user
interface, when DriveWindow is run under Win 2000 or Win XP. Some instructions, which do not
concern DriveWindow directly, but use of other programs, may differ much more, especially in details.

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5.1.2 Opening Help

To open help, select the Contents command in the Help menu.

Windows help program (Winhlp32.exe) starts and shows its main dialog. In the main dialog you can
select to view the content, view the index, or search for specific words.

5.1.3 Context Sensitive Help

To get help about command on a menu or submenu, use the arrow keys to highlight the command,
and press F1
Another method is to first press Shift+F1, while no menu is dropped-down. While a question mark is
attached to the cursor, open a menu or submenu and click the command, about which you want to get
help.
You can start the window help program also by pressing the shortcut key F1. Help program jumps
directly inside DriveWindow help.
To get help about command on a menu or submenu, use the arrow keys to highlight the command,
and press F1.

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If you do not have any dialog or message box open, you can do the same by first pressing the shortcut
key Shift+F1. This causes DriveWindow to enter “help mode”, which is indicated by a question mark
attached to the cursor.

When in “help mode”, point and click the object, about which you want to get information. This starts
the help program and also leaves the “help mode”. If you want to leave the “help mode” without getting
help, press the Esc key, or switch away from DriveWindow and back again.
To get help about a dialog box, press F1 while the dialog box is displayed.
If there is no specific topic associated with an object, about which you requested help by using F1 or
Shift+F1, help program jumps to the main content of the DriveWindow help.

There are links within the on-line help. When you click an underlined green text, help program jumps to
the topic linked with the text. You can get back by clicking the Back button.

5.1.4 Help Structure

In addition to the main contents, DriveWindow on-line help consists of the following parts:
• General contains general information.
• User Interface explains in detail different parts of the user interface
• Workspace and Preferences tells, how to use workspaces and what are preferences.
• Parameters and Signals explains, how to work with drive parameters.
• Controlling Drives tells, how to control a drive with DriveWindow
• Trends explains, how to use the monitor and dataloggers.
• OPC Server tells, how to use an OPC Server with DriveWindow.
• System Software tells, how to backup, restore and download System Software.
• Miscellaneous contains miscellaneous information.
• Advanced Information contains information useful for experts.

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Each part is organized as a separate “book”. It always starts with the contents of the part. Also, the
topics are ordered, so it is possible to browse forward and backward within a part.

4. File Menu ......................................................................................................................................2-5

4.1 Workspace Submenu .............................................................................................................2-5
4.2 Parameters Submenu.............................................................................................................2-6
4.2.1 Export Submenu..............................................................................................................2-7
4.3 System Software Submenu ....................................................................................................2-8
4.3.1 New Submenu ...............................................................................................................2-10
4.4 Graph Submenu ...................................................................................................................2-11

5. Edit Menu....................................................................................................................................2-12

6. View Menu ..................................................................................................................................2-12

6.1 Toolbars Submenu ...............................................................................................................2-13

7. Network Menu ............................................................................................................................2-14

8. Drive Menu..................................................................................................................................2-14

9. Desktop Menu ............................................................................................................................2-16

9.1 Control Item Set Submenu ...................................................................................................2-17

10. Monitor Menu..........................................................................................................................2-18

10.1 Set Variable Submenu ..........................................................................................................2-20
10.2 Axis Submenu.......................................................................................................................2-21
10.3 Scaling Submenu..................................................................................................................2-23

11. Datalogger Menu ....................................................................................................................2-25

11.1 Trig Settings Submenu .........................................................................................................2-27

12. Help Menu ...............................................................................................................................2-28

13. System Menu ..........................................................................................................................2-28

14. Toolbars ..................................................................................................................................2-29

14.1 Standard Toolbar ..................................................................................................................2-31
14.2 Monitor Toolbar.....................................................................................................................2-32
14.3 Logger Toolbar......................................................................................................................2-33
14.4 Drive Panel Toolbar ..............................................................................................................2-34

15. Status Bar................................................................................................................................2-36

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16. Window Area .......................................................................................................................... 2-37

16.1 Browse Tree Pane ............................................................................................................... 2-38
16.2 Item List Pane ...................................................................................................................... 2-40
16.3 Trend Settings Pane ............................................................................................................ 2-42
16.3.1 Monitor Settings ............................................................................................................ 2-44
16.3.2 Datalogger Settings ...................................................................................................... 2-46
16.4 Trend Display Pane.............................................................................................................. 2-50
16.4.1 Monitor Display ............................................................................................................. 2-54
16.4.2 Datalogger Display........................................................................................................ 2-54

17. Scrollbars ............................................................................................................................... 2-55

18. Common Dialogs ................................................................................................................... 2-56

18.1 File Comment Dialog............................................................................................................ 2-56
18.2 Open Dialog ......................................................................................................................... 2-57
18.3 Print Setup Dialog ................................................................................................................ 2-59
18.4 Save As Dialog..................................................................................................................... 2-60

19. Shortcut Keys ........................................................................................................................ 2-62

19.1 DriveWindow Specific Shortcuts .......................................................................................... 2-64
19.2 Some Common Windows Shortcuts .................................................................................... 2-65
19.2.1 General Windows Keys ................................................................................................ 2-65
19.2.2 Task, Shutting Down, and Cancel ................................................................................ 2-66
19.2.3 Desktop and Taskbar Navigation Keys......................................................................... 2-66
19.2.4 Window Manipulation Keys........................................................................................... 2-67
19.2.5 Document Windows Keys............................................................................................. 2-67
19.2.6 Menu Commands ......................................................................................................... 2-68
19.2.7 Text Navigation and Editing Keys ................................................................................. 2-69

1. Overview

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The user interface consists of the following parts:

1. Title bar
2. Menu bar
3. Toolbars
4. Status bar
5. Window area
6. Within the windows, scrollbars are shown, if scrolling is possible
Toolbars and status bar can individually be hidden by user.
User can also move toolbars into different locations.
User can resize the non-maximized window by dragging any of the sides or corners.

2. Title Bar

The title bar is located along the top of a window. It consists of the following parts:
1. System menu button
2. Application name (DriveWindow)
3. Network (OPC) server and remote location
4. Name of of the drive or open parameter file currently selected in the browse tree pane
5. Minimize button, same as Minimize in the System menu. Reduces the window to an icon
6. Maximize/restore button (depends on current maximize status of the window), same as
Maximize or Restore in the System menu.
7. Close button, same as Close in the System menu.
To move the window, drag the title bar. You can also move dialog boxes by dragging their title bars.
Note that a maximized window cannot be moved.
Maximize of the maximize/restore button enlarges the window to fill the available space.
Restore of the maximize/restore button returns the window to its size and position before you chose
maximize.
You can also do maximizing/restoring by double-clicking the title bar.
Clicking close button ends your DriveWindow session. DriveWindow prompts you to save documents
with unsaved changes.
You can close DriveWindow also by double-clicking the system menu button, by selecting Exit
command in the File menu, by selecting Close from the System menu, or by pressing the shortcut key
Alt+F4.
You can open the System Menu by left- or right-clicking the system menu button, by pressing the
shortcut key Alt+Spacebar, or by right-clicking within the non-button area of the title bar.
See Also: System Menu
Overview

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3. Menu Bar

The menu bar is located immediately below the title bar. It contains the following main menus:
• File
• Edit
• View
• Network
• Drive
• Desktop
• Monitor
• Datalogger
• Help
To open (drop-down) a menu, click its name on the menu bar. You can also use a key, which is the
key underlined in the menu name, with Alt key down, to open a menu.. For example, Alt+F opens the
File menu.
To execute a command or drop-down a submenu from a dropped-down menu (or submenu), click its
name on the dropped-down menu. You can also use the arrow keys to navigate within the menu bar,
menus, and submenus. The highlighted command is executed or submenu is dropped down by
pressing Enter. Pressing Esc key closes the menu or submenu. You can also use a key, which is the
key underlined in the command or submenu name, to execute a command or drop-down a submenu.
For example, pressing X, while the File menu is dropped-down, executes Exit.
To get help about command on a menu or submenu, use the arrow keys to highlight the command,
and press F1. Another method is to first press Shift+F1, while no menu is dropped-down. While a
question mark is attached to the cursor, open a menu or submenu and click the command, about
which you want to get help.
Note! Shortcut keys other than F1 do not work while a menu is dropped-down.

The menu contains the following commands and submenus:

• Workspace submenu. Contains commands for handling workspace.
• Parameters submenu. Contains commands and submenus for handling parameters.
• System submenu. Contains commands and submenus for handing system software.
• Graph submenu. Contains commands to print, copy, or export the current graph.
• Printer Setup command. This command presents a Print Setup dialog box, where you can
specify the printer to be used in printing graphs, paper size and orientation, and check and
change properties (color/black and white, for example) of the specified printer.
• Status Refresh command, same as status refresh on/off button in the standard toolbar.
Toggles the drive status display on-line/off-line in the browse tree pane.
• Exit command (shortcut key is Alt+F4), same as Close command in the System menu, close
button in the title bar, or double-clicking the system menu button in the title bar. Ends your
DriveWindow session. DriveWindow possibly warns you about releasing control and prompts
you to save documents with unsaved changes.
See Also: Menu Bar

4.1 Workspace Submenu

Workspace is submenu of the File menu and contains commands for handling workspace.

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The menu contains the following commands:

• Open (shortcut key is Ctrl+W). Presents an Open dialog box for selecting the file containing
the workspace settings to be restored. Restores the workspace settings from the file.
• Save As (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+W). Presents a Save As dialog box for naming or
selecting the file, into which the workspace settings are saved. Saves the current workspace
settings to the file.
• Comment. Presents a File Comment dialog box for viewing and editing of the
graph/workspace file comment.
• Preferences. Presents a Workspace Preferences dialog box, which allows the user to control,
how workspaces are saved and restored. It can also be used to select, whether all
DriveWindow preferences are personal or common for all users of the computer.
Workspace can be saved even when DriveWindow is not connected to an OPC Server.
Opening a workspace restores, among other things, connection to the saved OPC Server.
See Also: File Menu
What is Workspace

4.2 Parameters Submenu

Parameters is submenu of the File menu and contains a submenu and commands for handling
parameters.

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The menu contains the following submenu and commands:

• Open command (shortcut key is Ctrl+O). Presents an Open dialog box for selecting the file
containing parameters. Opens the file so that the parameters are browsable in the browse
tree pane.
• Close command, same as Delete in the Edit menu or delete button in the standard toolbar,
when the browse tree pane has focus and currently open parameter file is selected. Prompts
to save the file, if there are unsaved changes. Closes the currently open parameter file.
• Save As command (shortcut key is Ctrl+S). Presents a Save As dialog box for naming or
selecting the file, into which the parameters are saved. Saves parameters of the drive or open
parameter file currently selected in the browse tree pane.
• Export submenu. Contains commands to export parameters of a single drive or parameter
file, or parameters of all drives.
• Comment command. Presents a File Comment dialog box, which allows you to view and edit
the comment in the currently open parameter file.
• Compare command. Compares parameters of the drive or currently open parameter file,
whichever is selected in the browse tree pane, with a parameter file. If not comparing a drive
with the currently open parameter file, the parameter file is requested by presenting a
Compare dialog box, which is similar to the Open dialog box. When comparison has been
done, presents a Parameter Comparison dialog box, which contains the differences. It is
possible to export the comparison results from the dialog box, too.
• Download command (shortcut key is Ctrl+D). If not downloading parameters of a drive from
the currently open parameter file, the parameter file is requested by presenting a Download
dialog box, which is similar to the Open dialog box. Presents a Select Restore Type dialog
box, which allows you to choose, whether user data, ID run results, or both, is to be
downloaded. Downloads the parameters from the parameter file to the drive selected in the
browse tree pane.
See Also: File Menu

4.2.1 Export Submenu

Export is submenu of Parameters, which is submenu of the File menu, and contains commands for
exporting parameters.

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The menu contains the following commands:

• Selected. Presents an Export Selected to File dialog box, which is a variant of a Save As
dialog box, for naming or selecting the file, into which the parameters are exported. Exports
parameters of the drive or open parameter file, whichever is currently selected in the browse
tree pane.
• All Drives. Presents an Export All to File dialog box, which is a variant of a Save As dialog
box, for naming or selecting the file, into which the parameters are exported. Exports
parameters of all drives into the file. Note that parameters in a currently open parameter file
are not included.
See Also: Parameters Submenu

4.3 System Software Submenu

System Software is submenu of the File menu and contains a submenu and commands for handling
system software.

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The menu contains the following submenu and commands:

• New submenu. Contains commands to create new packages.
• Open command. Presents an Open dialog box for selecting a backup package or loading
package file. Opens the file so that system software can be restored (backup package) or
new system software can be downloaded (loading package).
• Close command. Prompts to save the currently open package, if there are unsaved changes.
Closes the currently open package.
• Save command. If the currently open package is new and not yet saved, behaves like the
Save As command. Saves the currently open package.
• Save As command. Presents a Save As dialog box for naming or selecting the file, into which
the currently open package is saved. Saves the currently open package.
• Backup command. Connects to the OPC Server and presents a Select Drive dialog box,
which allows multiple selection of drives. System software of the selected drives is uploaded
into the currently open backup package.
• Backup All command. Connects to the OPC Server and uploads system software of all drives
into the currently open backup package.
• Restore command. Connects to the OPC Server and presents Select Drive and Restore Drive
dialog boxes. Downloads the selected system software from the currently open backup
package to the selected drive.
• Download command. Connects to the OPC Server and presents Select Drive dialog box.
Downloads system software with selected option from the currently open loading package to
the selected drive.
• Properties command. It is always disabled, because it is not implemented in the current
DriveWindow.
Note that if backup, restore, or download is to be done to a locally connected drive, it is not necessary
(and even not recommended) to connect DriveWindow to the OPC Server in advance.
Note! Because in restore and download contents of the drive may have totally been changed, an
internal Network Disconnect and then Reconnect is made in DriveWindow, which changes state
and contents of windows of DriveWindow.
See Also: File Menu
System Software
How to Backup
How to Restore
How to Download

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4.3.1 New Submenu

New is submenu of System Software, which is submenu of the File menu, and contains commands for
creating new packages.

The menu contains the following commands:

• Backup Package. Creates a new empty backup package.
• Loading Package. Creates a new empty loading package. This command is always disabled,
because the functionality is not included in DriveWindow.
If there is currently a package open, it is closed after prompting to save unsaved changes.
See Also: System Software Submenu
How to Backup

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4.4 Graph Submenu

Graph is submenu of the File menu and contains commands to print, copy, or export the graph
currently shown in the trend display pane.

The menu contains the following commands:

• Open. Presents an Open dialog box for selecting the file containing the graph or graphs to be
shown. Puts DriveWindow off-line and loads the graph(s) from the file.
• Save As. Presents a Save As dialog box for naming or selecting the file, into which the
currently visible graph is saved. Saves the currently visible graph into the file.
• Save All. Presents a Save As dialog box for naming or selecting the file, into which the
currently all graphs are saved. Saves all graphs (monitor and uploaded dataloggers) into the
file.
• Print. Prints the graph to the currently selected printer using current printer settings.
• Comment. Presents a File Comment dialog box for viewing and editing of the
graph/workspace file comment.
• Export. Presents an Export Graph To File dialog box, which is a variant of a Save As dialog
box, for naming or selecting the file, into which the graph is exported. Exports the graph into
the file in numerical format.
• Copy, same as Copy Graph in the Edit menu. Copies the graph into the clipboard in graphical
format.
• Preferences. Presents a Graph Preferences dialog box, which allows the user to control, how
graphs are shown and printed. It can also be used to select, how scaling is shown and
entered.
See Also: File Menu

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5. Edit Menu
The Edit menu is located in the menu bar.

The menu contains the following commands:

• Cut, same as cut items button in the standard toolbar (shortcut keys are Ctrl+X or Shift+Del).
Copies selected items from the item list pane to to the clipboard and deletes the items from
the pane.
• Copy values, same as copy values button in the standard toolbar (shortcut keys are Ctrl+C or
Ctrl+Ins). Copies selected items from the item list pane to the clipboard.
• Delete, same as delete button in the standard toolbar (shortcut key is Del). Action depends on
the pane, which has the focus. If browse tree pane has focus, deletes the selected parameter
group or all parameters are deleted from the file. If item list pane has focus, selected items
are deleted from the pane. If the trend settings pane has focus, the selected channels and/or
triggering variable are cleared.
• Copy Graph, same as Copy in the Graph submenu of the File menu. Copies the graph into
the clipboard in graphical format.
See Also: Menu Bar

6. View Menu
The View menu is located in the menu bar.

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The menu contains the following commands and submenus:

• Toolbars submenu. Contains toggles for showing or hiding toolbars.
• Status Bar toggle. Displays or hides the status bar.
• Zoom In toggle, same as zoom in graph button in the standard toolbar (shortcut key is
Ctrl+Shift+Z). Puts the trend display pane into zoom-in mode, which allows the user to select
the zoom-in area.
• Zoom Out command, same as zoom out graph button in the standard toolbar. Restores the
trend settings to the values they had before last zoom-in was done.
• Zoom Reset command, same as reset graph zoom button in the standard toolbar. Restores
the trend settings to the values they had before the first zoom-in was done.
• Graph Cursor. Presents a Graph Cursor dialog box, which allows the user to control, which
numerical values are shown with the graph cursor and whether the values are shown scaled
or not.
• Change Display Format command (shortcut key is F3). Presents a dialog box, in which the
user can temporarily change display format of the values of the selected items in the item list
pane, or numerical values shown with the graph cursor of the selected channels in the trend
display pane.
See Also: Menu Bar

6.1 Toolbars Submenu

Toolbars is submenu of the View menu and contains toggles for showing or hiding toolbars.

The menu contains toggles for showing or hiding the following toolbars:
• Standard.
• Logger.
• Monitor.
• DrivePanel.
See Also: View menu

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7. Network Menu
The Network menu is located in the menu bar.

The menu contains the following OPC Server handling commands:

• Network Servers (shortcut key is Ctrl+N). Presents a Select OPC Server dialog box and
connects to the selected server, which can also reside in a remote PC.
• Disconnect Server (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+N). Disconnects the currently connected OPC
Server.
• Network Server Status. Shows information about the server in a OPC Server Status dialog
box.
Note that the Select OPC Server dialog box is also shown when DriveWindow is started. If cancel is
clicked in the dialog box, DriveWindow is left unconnected.
See Also: Menu Bar

8. Drive Menu
The Drive menu is located in the menu bar.

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The menu contains the following drive handling commands:

• Take Control/Release Control, same as take/release control button in the Drive Panel toolbar
(shortcut key is Alt+F2). Toggles the control status of the drive, which is selected from the
browse tree pane. Note that it is possible to control most one drive at a time. Toggling the
control status changes the menu text.
• Clear Faultlogger, same as clear faultlogger button in the Drive Panel toolbar. Sends
faultlogger clearing command to the currently selected drive.
• Reset Fault, same as reset fault button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Alt+F8).
Sends fault reset command to the currently controlled drive.
• Start, same as start button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Shift+F9). Sends start
command to the currently controlled drive.
• Stop, same as stop button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Shift+F10). Sends stop
command to the currently controlled drive.
• Reverse, same as reverse button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Ctrl+F5). Sends
reverse command to the currently controlled AC drive.
• Forward, same as forward button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Ctrl+F6). Sends
forward command to the currently controlled AC drive.
• Coast Stop, same as coast stop button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Ctrl+F4).
Sends coast stop command to the currently controlled drive.
• On, same as close contactor button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Ctrl+F5). Sends
contactor close command to the currently controlled DC drive.
• Off, same as open contactor button in the Drive Panel toolbar (shortcut key is Ctrl+F6). Sends
contactor open command to the currently controlled DC drive.
• Step Settings. Presents a Step Settings dialog box, which allows the user to define properties
of a step.
• Step Start/Step Reset, same as start/end step button in the Drive Panel toolbar. Starts or
ends a step in the reference value of the drive, control of which is taken.
No drive type has all commands available. If the drive under control does not have a command
available, the corresponding command is disabled (grayed) in the menu.
AC and DC drives reuse some menu positions for different commands, which do not exist in the other
type of drive. The buttons shown in the Drive Panel toolbar are changed correspondingly.

The menu contains the following commands and submenus:

• Add New Item command, same as add item button in the standard toolbar (shortcut key is
Ctrl+A). Presents an Add Item to Desktop dialog box and adds the item, OPC Address of
which is given, into the item list pane. The item is named by the user.
• Control Item Set submenu. Contains commands for changing the control item set.
• Lock/Unlock Items command, same as lock/unlock items button in the standard toolbar. The
locking status of the selected items in the item list pane is toggled. When an item is locked
(pinned), it stays visible in the item list pane even if selection in the browse tree is changed.
An unlocked item disappears from the pane. Note that monitoring also locks the items
monitored. Unlocking an item does not remove it from the pane, but the next selection change
in the browse tree pane does.
• Update Items command, same as update items button in the standard toolbar. Values of the
selected items in the item list pane are read and updated.
• Put Items Online/Offline command, same as activate/deactivate items button in the standard
toolbar. Toggles the on-line status of the items, which are selected in the item list pane on-
line/off-line. Values of items, which are on-line, are periodically refreshed in the item list pane.
• Change Item Value command, same as change value button in the standard toolbar, or
double-clicking a writable item in the item list pane. Presents a dialog box, in which the user
enters a new value for the item selected in the item list pane, and changes the value.
• OPC Settings command. Presents an OPC Settings dialog box, which allows the user to view
and change some OPC Server settings. Note that these settings concern only the item list
pane.
• Preferences command. Presents Desktop Preferences dialog box, which allows user to
control, how values are refreshed in the item list pane, when new items are added into the
pane. It also allows user to control, how item and graph cursor values are formatted in the
item list pane and in the trend pane.
Note! Changing OPC settings is discouraged because wrong settings can stop DriveWindow working
properly without any visual clue.
See Also: Menu Bar

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9.1 Control Item Set Submenu

Control Item Set is submenu of the Desktop menu. When control is taken, all items in the control item
set are put into the item list pane.

The menu contains the following commands:

• Selected Item. Clears the control item set and then adds into it the items, which are currently
selected in the item list pane. Channel and node of the items are ignored.
• Restore Defaults. Clears the control item set and adds into it the hard coded defaults.
The default control item set consists of the following items:
1)
Name OPC Address Note
Last fault FL.00.Description Read only
Reference Control.Reference Write only
Reference (actual) Status.Reference Read only
1)
Always without channel and node
Note! The name displayed, when control is taken, is always the one in the control item set. If not care
is taken, this can be misleading, because the actual name in the drive may be quite something
else. Thus changing of the control item set is discouraged.
See Also: Desktop menu
Control Item Set
Changing the Control Item Set

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10. Monitor Menu

The Monitor menu is located in the menu bar. Commands in the Monitor menu are enabled only if
Monitor is selected in the trend settings pane.

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The menu contains the following monitor handling commands and submenus:
• Add/Remove Items command, same as add/remove monitored items button in the monitor
toolbar. Toggles the monitoring status of the selected items in the item list pane. A monitored
item is locked in the item list pane.
• Set Variable submenu. For each channel, allows the user to view and change the item, which
is monitored.
• Change Drive command. The drive of the selected (or all, if none selected) monitored items in
the item list pane is changed. The new drive is the one selected in the browse tree pane.
• Start command or Continue command, if monitor is paused, same as start or continue
monitoring button in the monitor toolbar (shortcut key is Ctrl+M). Starts or continues
monitoring.
• Stop monitoring command, same as Stop button in the monitor toolbar (shortcut key is
Ctrl+Shift+M). Stops monitoring. Monitor must be cleared before it can be started again.
• Pause command, same as pause monitoring button in the monitor toolbar (shortcut key is
Ctrl+Shift+P). The monitored items are still measured, but the display freezes until monitoring
is continued.
• Clear command, same as clear monitor button in the monitor toolbar. Resets the monitor.
• Fast Mode toggle, same as double clicking Mode in monitor settings. Toggles between fast
and normal mode of monitoring.
• Interval command, same as double-clicking Interval in monitor settings. Presents an Interval
dialog box, where you can change the monitoring interval.
• History Buffer command, same as double-clicking History Buffer in monitor settings. Presents
a History Buffer dialog box, where you can change the size of the monitor history buffer, i.e.,
how much data is remembered by the monitor.
• Axis submenu. Allows the user to view and change current settings of monitor axes.
• Scaling submenu. For each channel, allows the user to view and change scaling values of the
monitor.
• Restore Defaults command. Restores monitor default settings. However, which settings are
restored, depend on monitoring status.
See Also: Menu Bar
Common Trend Settings
Setting Monitor

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10.1 Set Variable Submenu

Set Variable is submenu of the Monitor menu and Datalogger menu.

The menu contains commands, which allow the user to view and change the item, which is monitored
or logged by the current datalogger.
• Channel 1, ... Channel 6. Presents user an Add Item to Monitor/Datalogger and Desktop
dialog box (similar to the Add Item to Desktop dialog box presented by the Add New Item
command in the Desktop menu). The item, OPC Address of which is given, is added both into
the item list pane and into the monitor or datalogger channel 1,...6. The item is named by the
user. If name and OPC address are empty, the channel 1,...6 is cleared.
Note that channels not available in the current datalogger are disabled (grayed). Note also that
monitored items are locked in the item list pane, while logged items are not.
Note! Many drives require that if not all channels are logged, the channels logged must be the first
ones. DriveWindow takes care about this by shifting logged items and their scaling values
“upwards”, if necessary. It also allows adding of a new logged item to the first free channel only.
Item name given by the user is used by the item list pane and the monitor settings. Datalogger settings
do not use the name given by the user, but the name used by the drive.
See Also: Monitor menu
Datalogger menu
Setting and Removing Monitored Variables
Setting and Removing Datalogger Variables

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10.2 Axis Submenu

Axis is submenu of the Monitor menu and Datalogger menu.

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The menu contains commands, which allow the user to view and current settings of monitor or
datalogger axes. Datalogger changes concern just the current datalogger.
• X Length command, same as double-clicking X Axis Length in monitor or datalogger settings.
Presents an X Axis Length dialog box, where you can change the x-axis length of the
corresponding graph at current zooming level, if any.
• Y Axis Maximum command, same as double-clicking Y Axis Maximum in monitor or
datalogger settings. Presents a Y Axis Maximum dialog box, where you can change the y-axis
maximum value of the corresponding graph at current zooming level, if any.
• Y Axis Minimum command, same as double-clicking Y Axis Minimum in monitor or datalogger
settings. Presents a Y Axis Minimum dialog box, where you can change the y-axis minimum
value of the corresponding graph at current zooming level, if any.
• Adapt Y Axis command (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+Y). DriveWindow selects and sets proper
y-axis minimum and maximum values of the corresponding graph at current zooming level, if
any, for you.
Note that zooming in, in addition to increasing zooming level, also changes settings of axes. The
present values are saved, however, and restored, when zooming out.
The trend display pane contains a short vertical scrollbar. Clicking the up or down arrow on it also
changes y-axis maximum and minimum simultaneously.
See Also: Monitor menu
Datalogger menu
Common Trend Settings

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10.3 Scaling Submenu

Scaling is submenu of the Monitor menu and Datalogger menu.

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The menu contains commands, which allow the user to view and change scaling values of the item,
which is monitored or logged by the current datalogger. Datalogger changes concern just the current
datalogger.
• Channel 1, ... Channel 6, same as double-clicking 1,...6 or I,... VI in the settings. Presents
user a Channel Scaling dialog box. Changes the coefficient and the offset, which are used to
scale the measured value of the monitored or logged item before it is drawn in the trend
display pane.
• Autoscale command (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+S). DriveWindow calculates and sets proper
scaling of all or selected trends.
Note that channels not available in the current datalogger are disabled (grayed).
The coefficient and offset are displayed in the settings pane as a formula in form coefficient * x +
offset.
The channels to be autoscaled are selected in the trend settings pane. If no channel is selected, all
measured and drawn channels are autoscaled.
If none of the selected channels is measured and drawn or, in case of autoscaling the monitor, the
monitor is running, the Autoscale command is disabled (grayed).
See Also: Monitor menu
Datalogger menu
Common Trend Settings
Setting Scaling

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11. Datalogger Menu

The Datalogger menu is located in the menu bar. Commands in the Datalogger menu are enabled only
if Datalogger is selected in the trend settings pane.

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The menu contains the following datalogger handling commands and submenus:
• Datalogger 2 toggle. Toggles the current datalogger selection in case the current drive has
two dataloggers. Current datalogger can also be selected from the browse tree pane by
clicking the Datalogger in the browse tree.
• Add/Remove Items command, same as add/remove datalogger items button in the logger
toolbar. Toggles the logging status of those selected items in the item list pane, which reside
in the same drive as the current datalogger. A logged item is not locked in the item list pane
as monitored items are. The name of a logged item is taken from the drive, when it is
displayed in the datalogger settings or in printings.
• Set Variable submenu. For each channel, allows the user to view and change the item, which
is logged.
• Upload command, same as upload datalogger button in the logger toolbar. Uploads values of
the currently selected datalogger and displays them as trends in the trend display pane. The
current datalogger settings are frozen, so that they show the uploaded values for the logger,
even if the settings in the drive change.
• Start, same as start datalogger button in the logger toolbar. Sends start command to the
currently selected datalogger.
• Stop command, same as stop datalogger button in the logger toolbar. Sends stop command
to the currently selected datalogger.
• Trig command, same as trig datalogger button in the logger toolbar. Sends trigger command
(user trigged) to the currently selected datalogger.
• Clear command, same as clear drive datalogger button in the logger toolbar. Sends clear
command to the currently selected datalogger.
• Clear Graph command, same as clear graph datalogger graph button in the logger toolbar.
Clears the uploaded values of currently selected datalogger and the trends in the trend display
pane. The settings for the datalogger are unfrozen.
• Status Refresh toggle, same as double-clicking Status (or Trigged by, if current datalogger
has not been uploaded) in datalogger settings. Toggles Status (and Triggered by, if current
datalogger has not been uploaded) display on-line/off-line in the datalogger settings pane.
• Interval command, same as double-clicking Interval in datalogger settings. Presents an
Interval dialog box, where you can change the logging interval of the current datalogger.
• Trig Settings submenu. Allows the user to view and change triggering settings of the current
datalogger.
• Axis submenu. Allows the user to view and change current settings of axes of the current
monitor.
• Scaling submenu. For each channel, allows the user to view and change scaling values of the
current datalogger.
• Restore Defaults command. Restores datalogger default settings. However, which settings
are restored, depend on, whether the datalogger is uploaded or not.
See Also: Menu Bar
Common Trend Settings
Setting Datalogger

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11.1 Trig Settings Submenu

Trig Settings is submenu of the Datalogger menu.

The menu contains commands, which allow the user to view and change triggering settings of the
current datalogger.
• Pre-Trig (ms) command, same as double-clicking Pre-Trig in datalogger settings. Presents a
Pre-Trig dialog box, where you can change the number of values kept in the current
datalogger before the triggering event. The value is given and shown as time, but the
datalogger actually uses a count.
• Conditions command, same as double-clicking Trig Conditions in datalogger settings.
Presents a Triggering Conditions dialog box, where you can view and change the conditions,
which trigger the current datalogger.
• Variable command, same as double-clicking Trig Variable in datalogger settings. Presents a
Trig Variable dialog box, where you can view and change OPC address of the variable, which
is used in triggering the current datalogger. Note that the OPC address is given without
channel and node, and the name used by the drive, not the OPC address, is shown in the
datalogger settings pane.
• Level command, same as double-clicking Trig Level in datalogger settings. Presents a Trig
Level dialog box, where you can view and change the triggering level, which is used in
triggering the current datalogger.
• Hysteresis command, same as double-clicking Trig Hysteresis in datalogger settings.
Presents a Trig Hysteresis dialog box, where you can view and change the triggering level
hysteresis, which is used in triggering the current datalogger.
See Also: Datalogger menu
Setting Datalogger

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12. Help Menu

The Help menu is located in the menu bar.

The menu contains the following commands:

• Contents. Starts the windows help program presenting DriveWindow help content/index/find.
• About. Presents the About DriveWindow dialog box, which contains version and copyright
information about DriveWindow.
You can start the window help program also by pressing the shortcut key F1. Help program jumps
directly inside DriveWindow help.
If you do not have any dialog or message box open, you can do the same by first pressing the shortcut
key Shift+F1. This causes DriveWindow to enter “help mode”, which is indicated by a question mark
attached to the cursor.

13. System Menu

The System Menu is not located in the menu bar. You can open the System Menu by left- or right-
clicking the system menu button in the title bar, by pressing the shortcut key Alt+Spacebar, or right-
clicking within the non-button area of the title bar.

Many dialog boxes also have simple system menus. You can open their System Menu by right-clicking
within the non-button area of their title bar, or by pressing the shortcut key Alt+Spacebar.

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The menu contains the following commands:

• Restore, same as the maximize/restore button in the title bar, when the window is maximized.
Returns the window to its size and position before you chose maximize.
• Move, similar to dragging the title bar. After selecting the command, it is possible to move the
window with the arrow keys. To finish the move, press Enter. To cancel the move, press Esc.
• Size, similar to dragging any of the sides or corners of the window. After selecting the
command, it is possible to resize the window with the arrow keys. To finish resizing, press
Enter. To cancel resizing, press Esc.
• Minimize, same as minimize button in the title bar. Reduces the window to an icon
• Maximize, same as the maximize/restore button in the title bar, when the window is not
maximized. Enlarges the window to fill the available space.
• Close, same as close button in the title bar. Ends your DriveWindow session. DriveWindow
prompts you to save documents with unsaved changes.
Note that a maximized window cannot be moved or resized.
You can also do maximizing/restoring by double-clicking the title bar.
You can close DriveWindow also by double-clicking the system menu button, by selecting Exit
command in the File menu, by selecting Close from the System menu, or by pressing the shortcut key
Alt+F4.
See Also: Menu Bar

14. Toolbars

The toolbars provide quick mouse access to many tools used in DriveWindow. DriveWindow has the
following toolbars:
1. Standard toolbar
2. Monitor toolbar
3. Logger toolbar
4. Drive panel toolbar
Most of the toolbars are normally displayed across the top of the application window, below the menu
bar. However, the drive panel toolbar is normally at the bottom of the window, above the status bar.
Toolbars can be individually hidden or relocated by user.
To display or hide the status bar, use the commands in the Toolbars submenu of the View menu.

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To relocate a toolbar, drag it to its now position. A toolbar can be docked to any side of the window,
except the drive panel toolbar, which can be docked only to the top and bottom sides.

Any of the toolbars can also be left floating. Clicking the close button in the title bar of a floating toolbar
hides the toolbar. It can be made visible again using a command in the Toolbars submenu of the View
menu.

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When you point a button in a toolbar, a pop-up label called tooltips is shown.

14.1 Standard Toolbar

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The standard toolbar contains the following buttons:

1. Status refresh on/off, same as Status Refresh in the File menu. Toggles the drive status
display on-line/off-line in the browse tree pane.
2. Cut items, same as Cut in the Edit menu (shortcut keys are Ctrl+X or Shift+Del). Copies
selected items from the item list pane to to the clipboard and deletes the items from the pane.
3. Copy values, same as Copy in the Edit menu (shortcut keys are Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Ins). Copies
selected items from the item list pane to the clipboard.
4. Delete, same as Delete in the Edit menu (shortcut key is Del). Action depends on the pane,
which has the focus. If browse tree pane has focus, deletes the selected parameter group or
all parameters are deleted from the file. If item list pane has focus, selected items are deleted
from the pane. If the trend settings pane has focus, the selected channels and/or triggering
variable are cleared.
5. Zoom in graph, same as Zoom In in the View menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+Z). Puts the
trend display pane into zoom-in mode, which allows the user to select the zoom-in area.
6. Zoom out graph, same as Zoom Out in the View menu. Restores the trend settings to the
values they had before last zoom-in was done.
7. Reset graph zoom, same as Zoom Reset in the View menu. Restores the trend settings to the
values they had before the first zoom-in was done.
8. Add item, same as Add New Item in the Desktop menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+A). Presents an
Add Item to Desktop dialog box and adds the item, OPC Address of which is given, into the
item list pane. The item is named by the user.
9. Lock/unlock items, same as Lock/Unlock Items in the Desktop menu. The locking status of
the selected items in the item list pane is toggled. When an item is locked (pinned), it stays
visible in the item list pane even if selection in the browse tree is changed. An unlocked item
disappears from the pane. Note that monitoring also locks the items monitored. Unlocking an
item does not remove it from the pane, but the next selection change in the browse tree pane
does.
a. Update items, same as Update Items in the Desktop menu. Values of the selected items in
the item list pane are read and updated.
b. Activate/deactivate items, same as Put Items Online/Offline in the Desktop menu. Toggles the
on-line status of the items, which are selected in the item list pane on-line/off-line. Values of
items, which are on-line, are periodically refreshed in the item list pane.
c. Change value, same as Change Item Value in the Desktop menu, or double-clicking a
writable item in the item list pane. Presents a dialog box, in which the user enters a new value
for the item selected in the item list pane, and changes the value.
See Also: Toolbars

14.2 Monitor Toolbar

The monitor toolbar can be used to control monitoring instead of using the Monitor menu. Buttons in
the monitor toolbar are enabled only if Monitor is selected in the trend settings pane.

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The toolbar contains the following buttons:

1. Add/remove monitored items, same as Add/Remove Items in the Monitor menu. Toggles the
monitoring status of the selected items in the item list pane. A monitored item is locked in the
item list pane
2. Start or continue monitoring, same as Start (or Continue, if monitor is paused) in the Monitor
menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+M). Starts or continues monitoring.
3. Stop monitoring, same as Stop in the Monitor menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+M). Stops
monitoring. Monitor must be cleared before it can be started again.
4. Pause monitoring, same as Pause in the Monitor menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+P). The
monitored items are still measured, but the display freezes until monitoring is continued.
5. Clear monitor, same as Clear in the Monitor menu. Resets the monitor.
See Also: Toolbars

14.3 Logger Toolbar

The logger toolbar can be used to control datalogging instead of using the Datalogger menu. Buttons in
the datalogger toolbar are enabled only if Datalogger is selected in the trend settings pane.
The toolbar contains the following buttons:
1. Add/remove datalogger items, same as Add/Remove Items in the Datalogger menu. Toggles
the logging status of those selected items in the item list pane, which reside in the same drive
as the current datalogger. A logged item is not locked in the item list pane as monitored items
are. The name of a logged item is taken from the drive, when it is displayed in the datalogger
settings pane or in printings.
2. Upload datalogger, same as Upload in the Datalogger menu. Uploads values of the currently
selected datalogger and displays them as trends in the trend display pane. The current
datalogger settings are frozen, so that they show the uploaded values for the logger, even if
the settings in the drive change.
3. Start datalogger, same as Start in the Datalogger menu. Sends start command to the
currently selected datalogger.
4. Stop datalogger, same as Stop in the Datalogger menu. Sends stop command to the currently
selected datalogger.
5. Trig datalogger, same as Trig in the Datalogger menu. Sends trigger command (user trigged)
to the currently selected datalogger.
6. Clear drive datalogger, same as Clear in the Datalogger menu. Sends clear command to the
currently selected datalogger.
7. Clear datalogger graph, same as Clear Graph in the Datalogger menu. Clears the uploaded
values of currently selected datalogger and the trends in the trend display pane. The settings
for the datalogger are unfrozen.
The controlled datalogger resides in the drive, which is selected from the browse tree pane. If the drive
has two dataloggers, selection of the logger within the drive can be made either from the browse tree
pane, or by toggling Datalogger 2 in the Datalogger menu.

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Note that Start, Stop, Trig, and Clear commands can be sent to the datalogger even if the uploaded
values are not cleared. Thus it is possible to study previous results in DriveWindow while the
datalogger in the drive has been started to collect data for the next case (with the same settings,
however).
See Also: Toolbars

14.4 Drive Panel Toolbar

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The drive panel toolbar can be used to control a drive instead of using the Drive menu. The toolbar
contains the following fields and buttons:
1. Status image of the drive, which is currently controlled by DriveWindow.
2. Name and address of the drive, which is currently controlled by DriveWindow.
3. Take/release control, same as Take Control (or Release Control, if control is taken) in the
Drive menu (shortcut key is Alt+F2). Toggles the control status of the drive, which is selected
from the browse tree pane. Note that it is possible to control most one drive at a time.
4. Clear faultlogger, same as Clear Faultlogger in the Drive menu. Sends faultlogger clearing
command to the currently selected drive.
5. Reference value edit field, same as entering value after Change Item Value command in the
Desktop menu, when the item Control.Reference of the currently controlled drive in the item
list pane is selected.
6. Current reference value, same as value of the item Satus.Reference of the currently
controlled drive in the item list pane.
7. Set reference, same as clicking the OK button when entering value after Change Item Value
command in the Desktop menu, when the item Control.Reference of the currently controlled
drive in the item list pane is selected.
8. Start/end step, same as Step Start/Release in the Drive menu. Starts or ends a step in the
reference value.
9. Reset fault, same as Reset Fault in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Alt+F8). Sends fault reset
command to the currently controlled drive.
a. Start, same as Start in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Shift+F9). Sends start command to the
currently controlled drive.
b. Stop, same as Stop in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Shift+F10). Sends stop command to
the currently controlled drive.
c. Reverse, same as Reverse in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+F5). Sends reverse
command to the currently controlled AC drive.
d. Forward, same as Forward in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+F6). Sends forward
command to the currently controlled AC drive.
e. Coast stop, same as Coast Stop in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+F4). Sends coast
stop command to the currently controlled drive.
f. Close contactor, same as On in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+F5). Sends contactor
close command to the currently controlled DC drive.
g. Open contactor, same as Off in the Drive menu (shortcut key is Ctrl+F6). Sends contactor
open command to the currently controlled DC drive.
When no drive is under control, name and address field are empty and all other fields except
Take/release control and clear faultlogger buttons are hidden.

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No drive type has all commands available. If the drive under control does not have a command
available, the corresponding button in the drive panel toolbar is hidden.

AC and DC drives reuse some positions to show buttons for different commands, which do not exist in
the other type of drive. The commands shown in the Drive menu are changed correspondingly.

15. Status Bar

The status bar is located along the bottom of a window. It can be hidden by user.
The status bar is displayed at the bottom of DriveWindow. To display or hide the status bar, use the
Status Bar command in the View menu.
The left area of the status bar describes actions of menu items. It also shows messages that describe
the actions of toolbar buttons. An explanation about a lengthy operation can also be shown while it is
executed.
The middle area of the status bar contains status image and name of the drive that is selected in the
browse tree pane. Selection needs not to be at root but can be any of sub-branches of the drive.
The right area of the status bar shows the status of keyboard CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock.
Empty means that the corresponding lock is off.
See Also: Overview

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16. Window Area

The window area of DriveWindow is split by horizontal and vertical splitters into four panes:
1. Browse tree pane
2. Item list pane
3. Trend settings pane
4. Trend display pane
Panes can be resized by:
5. Dragging the horizontal splitter up or down
6. Dragging the vertical splitter left or right
7. Dragging the splitter cross-point to a new position
The browse tree pane and the item list pane are related. When you change selection in the browse
tree, the previously displayed, unlocked items in the item list are removed, and items corresponding
the new browse tree selection (if any) are added.
The trend settings pane and the trend display pane both actually consist of two windows, one for
monitor and one for dataloggers. However, if monitor is visible, datalogger is hidden, and vice versa.
Selection is done by clicking either of the tabs in the trend settings pane.
The trend settings pane and the trend display pane are related. The settings shown in the trend
settings pane are those of the monitor or the datalogger shown in the trend display pane.
The datalogger settings and display, which are shown, are those of the currently selected datalogger.
The currently selected datalogger resides in the drive, which is selected from the browse tree pane. If
the drive has two dataloggers, selection of the logger within the drive can be made either from the
browse tree pane, or by toggling Datalogger 2 in the Datalogger menu.
See Also: Overview

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16.1 Browse Tree Pane

The browse tree pane is the upper left pane within the window area. You can use it for following
purposes:
• To navigate within a drive.
• To navigate within an open parameter file.
• To select a drive, which is the object of some command, like taking control.
• To select a datalogger, if the drive has more than one of them.
• To change the drive of monitored items.
A tree consists of branches shown in the browse tree pane, and items (leaves) of a branch, shown in
the item list pane.
The top level name, within which current selection resides, is also shown within parentheses in the title
bar. It is also shown in the status bar with the status image of the drive.
On the top level, an open parameter file (the file name if preceded by “File:”) and all drives (if OPC
Server has been connected) are shown.

The image displayed in front of a drive shows the status of the drive.

Image Status
Fault and (Forward) Direction
Fault and not (Forward) Direction
Not Running and Warning and (Forward) Direction
Not Running and Warning and not (Forward) Direction
Not Running and (Forward) Direction
Not Running and not (Forward) Direction
Running and Warning and (Forward) Direction
Running and Warning and not (Forward) Direction
Running and (Forward) Direction
Running and not (Forward) Direction
Otherwise (status display is off-line or status cannot be read, for
example)

The status image is also displayed in the status bar in front of the name, within which the current
selection resides. If control of a drive is taken, the status image of the drive is shown in the drive panel
toolbar in front of the name of it.

To expand a collapsed branch or to collapse an expanded branch, double-click the branch. An

expanded branch can be collapsed also by clicking the minus-sign on the left of the branch. If a plus-
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To select a branch, just click it. Only one branch at a time can be selected. Selection can also be
changed by up and down arrows, when the browse tree pane has focus. Note that changing the
selection also affects the item list pane, which changes the items displayed. It may also change the top
level name shown in parentheses in the title bar.
Note! Parameter groups are shown in numerical, but other sub-branches within a branch are shown in
alphabetical order.
To select a drive, datalogger, or parameter file, it is not necessary to select its root, selection of any of
its sub-branches will do.
When the parameter file is selected, it can be object of the following commands:
• Delete closes the file (root selected) or removes all parameters or a parameter group from the
file (sub-branch selected).
• Save As presents a Save As dialog box and saves the parameter file.
• Export Selected presents an Export Selected to File dialog box (a variant of Save As dialog
box), and exports the parameter file.
• Comment presents a File Comment dialog box for viewing and editing the comment part of
the parameter file.
• Compare compares the open parameter file with another parameter file.
When a drive is selected, it can be object of the following commands:
• Save As presents a Save As dialog box and saves parameters of the drive into a parameter
file.
• Export Selected presents an Export Selected to File dialog box (a variant of Save As dialog
box), and exports parameters of the drive
• Compare compares parameters of the drive with a parameter file.
• Download downloads parameters from a parameter file to the drive.
• Take/Release Control takes or releases control of the drive.
• Clear Faultlogger clears the faultlogger of the drive.
• Change Drive changes the drive of the selected (or all, if none selected) monitored items in
the item list pane. The new drive is the one selected in the browse tree pane.

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The datalogger shown is also determined by the selection of a drive. If a drive has two dataloggers,
selection made within either of them in the browse tree pane also determines, which of the two is
shown. While such a selection is made, it is not possible to select the datalogger from the Datalogger
menu.

16.2 Item List Pane

The item list pane is the upper right pane within the window area. You can use it for following
purposes:
• To view and change item values in a drive or in an open parameter file.
• To add items to and remove items from the monitor or a datalogger.
• To change the drive of monitored items.
• To copy or cut items to the clipboard.
• To change the control item set.
Each line under the title displays one item. The display is divided into three columns:
• Name, which consists of an icon that shows the status of the item, and a descriptive name.
Note that the descriptive name is normally fetched from the drive or created by the OPC
Server, but by executing Add New Item or Set Variable (in Monitor and Datalogger menus)
you can use a name of your own.
• Value of the item (if the item is not read-protected). If quality of the value is not good, quality is
shown with or instead of the value.
• OPC Address of the item. Note that items in an open parameter file are shown with an OPC
Address without channel and node.
Note! Items are sorted by increasing order of channel, node, and item ID of the OPC Address. Group
and parameter IDs are ordered numerically, other IDs are ordered alphabetically.

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You can change the width of a column by dragging the column separator in the title.

The image displayed in front of a descriptive name shows the status of the item.
Image Status
Off-line and not locked
On-line and not locked, background of the value is also yellow
Off-line and locked
On-line and locked, background of the value is also yellow
Monitored in channel 1
Monitored in channel 2
Monitored in channel 3
Monitored in channel 4
Monitored in channel 5
Monitored in channel 6

Note that monitored items are always locked, but the locking done by the user is separated from this
lock. It means that when an item is removed from the monitor, it shows the locking status set by the
user (either before or during monitoring).

Monitored items can be put on-line, too. Background of the value is yellow, as all other types of on-line
items.

To select an item, just click its descriptive name. Several items can be selected. You can do multiple
selection with the mouse as follows:
• To select a range of items, first click the descriptive name of the item at the one end and then,
with the Shift key down, click the descriptive name at the other end.
• To change selection status of a single item at a time, keep the Ctrl key down when clicking
the descriptive name of the item.

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When the item list pane has focus, it is also possible to do selection by using the keyboard.
• Up and down arrow keys move a single item selection up and down
• To select or unselect a range, keep the Shift key down while repeat pressing the up or down
arrow key.
• To select or unselect individual items, keep the Ctrl key down while moving up or down with
the up or down arrow key. Do the selection change by pressing spacebar with Ctrl down.
• To select or unselect several items at a time, press Shift+PgUp or Shift+PgDn.
• To select all items, first press the Home (or End) key and then, with Shift down, press the End
(or Home) key.
When one or more items are selected, they can be object of the following commands:
• Cut first copies the selected items to the clipboard and then removes them from the item list
pane. Monitored items are not removed, however.
• Copy copies the selected items to the clipboard. The fields are Tab separated and the order
of the fields is changed, so that the value is the last. If the value is a vector, the elements are
Tab separated, not comma separated, as they are in the item list pane..
• Delete removes the selected items from the item list pane. Monitored items are not removed,
however.
• Change Display Format command in the View menu allows user to temporarily change
display format of values in the dialog box, which is presented.
• Add New Item uses, if only a single item is selected, the selected item as a template, when it
presents the Add Item to Desktop dialog box.
• Selected Items in the Control Item Set submenu uses the currently selected items as the new
control item set.
• Lock/Unlock Items toggles the locking status of the selected items.
• Update Items reads and updates values of the selected items.
• Put Items Online/Offline toggles the on-line status of the selected items on-line/off-line.
• Change Item Value allows, if only a single item is selected, the selected item to be changed in
the dialog box, which is presented.
• Add/Remove Items in the Monitor menu toggles the monitoring status of the selected items.
Note that the number of channels in the monitor is limited and DriveWindow ignores the
excess items.
• Change Drive in the Monitor menu changes the drive of the selected (or all, if none selected)
monitored items. The new drive is the one selected in the browse tree pane.
• Add/Remove Items in the Datalogger menu toggles the logging status of those selected
items, which reside in the same drive as the current datalogger. Note that the number of
channels in the a datalogger is limited and DriveWindow ignores the excess items.
• Set Variable uses, if only a single item is selected and the channel is empty, the selected item
as a template, when it presents the Add Item to Monitor and Desktop dialog box. In the Add
Item to Datalogger and Desktop dialog box there is an additional condition to be able to use
the selected item as a template. The condition is that the item must reside in the same drive
as the current datalogger.
See Also: Window Area

16.3 Trend Settings Pane

The trend settings pane is the lower left pane within the window area. It actually consists of two
settings, one of which is visible at a time:
• Monitor settings.
• Datalogger settings of the current datalogger.

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You select the settings you want to see by clicking the Monitor or Datalogger tab at top of the pane.

Selection of the settings shown also affects the trend display pane. It shows the monitor, if monitor is
selected, and the current datalogger, if datalogger is selected.
You use the trend setting pane to view at a glance and quickly change monitor or datalogger settings.
The same things can also be done by using commands in the Monitor and Datalogger menus.
Each line under the title displays one setting. The display is divided into two columns:
• Setting name, which consist of a setting specific icon, and the name of the setting. Note that a
monitor or datalogger channel, when there is an item to be monitored or logged, contains the
descriptive name of the monitored or logged item.
• Value of the setting.
You can change the width of the columns by dragging the column separator in the title.

Double-clicking the name of a setting changes the value of the setting. If the setting is disabled,
double-clicking beeps. Meaning of each setting is explained in monitor settings and datalogger
settings.
To select a setting, just click the name of it. Several settings can be selected. You can do multiple
selection with the mouse as follows:
• To select a range of settings, first click the name of the setting at the one end and then, with
the Shift key down, click the name at the other end.
• To change selection status of a single setting at a time, keep the Ctrl key down when clicking
the name of the setting.
When the trend settings pane has focus, it is also possible to do selection by using the keyboard.
• Up and down arrow keys move a single setting selection up and down
• To select or unselect a range, keep the Shift key down while repeat pressing the up or down
arrow key.
• To select or unselect individual settings, keep the Ctrl key down while moving up or down with
the up or down arrow key. Do the selection change by pressing spacebar with Ctrl down.
• To select or unselect several settings at a time, press Shift+PgUp or Shift+PgDn.
• To select all settings, first press the Home (or End) key and then, with Shift down, press the
End (or Home) key.
Selections can be used to remove monitored or logged items from the monitor or the current
datalogger. Also the triggering variable can be removed by selection. Removal is done by Delete
command.
Autoscaling calculates proper scaling for those selected channels that are measured and drawn. By
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Note! Many drives require that if not all channels are logged, the channels logged must be the first
ones. DriveWindow takes care about this by shifting logged items and their scaling values
“upwards”, if necessary. It also allows adding of a new logged item to the first free channel only.
See Also: Window Area

16.3.1 Monitor Settings

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Monitor settings consist of the following:

• Mode, same as Fast Mode toggle in the Monitor menu. Double-clicking the name of the
setting toggles between fast and normal mode of monitoring.
• Interval, same as Interval command in the Monitor menu. Double-clicking the name of the
setting presents an Interval dialog box, where you can change the monitoring interval.
• History Buffer, same as History Buffer command in the Monitor menu. Double-clicking the
name of the setting presents a History Buffer dialog box, where you can change the size of
the monitor history buffer, i.e., how much data is remembered by the monitor.
• X Axis Length, same as X Length command in the Axis submenu of the Monitor menu.
Double-clicking the name of the setting presents an X Axis Length dialog box, where you can
change the x-axis length of the monitor graph at current zooming level, if any.
• Y Axis Maximum, same as Y Axis Maximum command in the Axis submenu of the Monitor
menu. Double-clicking the name of the setting presents a Y Axis Maximum dialog box, where
you can change the y-axis maximum value of the monitor graph at current zooming level, if
any.
• Y Axis Minimum, same as Y Axis Minimum command in the Axis submenu of the Monitor
menu. Double-clicking the name of the setting presents a Y Axis Minimum dialog box, where
you can change the y-axis minimum value of the monitor graph at current zooming level, if
any.
• Channel 1, ... Channel 6, same as Channel 1, ... Channel 6 command in Scaling submenu of
the Monitor menu. Depending on the scaling method selected in Graph Preferences, either
the coefficient and offset, or values at y=0 and at y=100 are displayed in the value field of a
setting. The coefficient and offset are displayed as a formula in form coefficient * x + offset.
The values at y=0 and y=100 are displayed within brackets ([]), separated with comma.
Double-clicking the name of a setting presents user a Channel Scaling dialog box. Changes
the coefficient and the offset, which are used to scale the measured value of the monitored
item before it is drawn in the trend display pane.
Note that if a channel has an item to be monitored, the descriptive name of the item is shown as the
name of the setting instead of Channel n.

Note that if a setting is disabled, double-clicking of it beeps.

To add, change, or remove monitored items, see Monitor menu.
Note that selections of the channel settings can also be used to remove monitored items from the
monitor. Removal is done by Delete command.
The trend display pane contains a short vertical scrollbar. Clicking the up or down arrow on it also
changes Y Axis Maximum and Y Axis Minimum simultaneously.
Y Axis Minimum and Y Axis Maximum also change simultaneously when y-axis is adapted.
See Also: Trend Settings Pane

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16.3.2 Datalogger Settings

Datalogger settings is one of the settings, which can be selected to be shown in the trend settings
pane.

The current datalogger is selected by selecting the drive in the browse tree pane. If there are two
dataloggers in the drive, the datalogger is further selected either by the Datalogger 2 toggle in the
Datalogger menu or expanding the drive in the browse tree pane and doing the selection there.
All other settings except X Axis Length, Y Axis Minimum, Y Axis Maximum, and scaling are actually
kept in the drive. Thus they are preserved even when DriveWindow exits.
When a datalogger is uploaded, the settings are frozen until the datalogger graph is cleared by Clear
Graph command. However, if Status is put on-line by double-clicking it or toggling Status Refresh,
Status displays current status instead of the uploaded status of the datalogger. Uploaded status is
resumed by putting Status off-line.
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Datalogger settings display settings of the current datalogger, and consist of the following:
• Status shows the state of the datalogger. Double-clicking the name of the setting is same as
Status Refresh toggle in the Datalogger menu. Double-clicking toggles it on-line/off-line. Also
Triggered by is toggled, if current datalogger has not been uploaded. On-line status is
indicated by yellow background of the value.
• Trigged By shows the triggering reason. If the datalogger has not been uploaded, double-
clicking the name of the setting is same as double-clicking the Status setting. On-line status is
indicated by yellow background of the value.
• Interval, same as Interval command in the Datalogger menu. Double-clicking the name of the
setting presents an Interval dialog box, where you can change the logging interval of the
current datalogger.
• Pre-Trig (ms), same as Pre-Trig (ms) command in the Trig Settings submenu. Double-
clicking the name of the setting presents a Pre-Trig dialog box, where you can change the
number of values kept in the current datalogger before the triggering event. The value is given
and shown as time, but the datalogger actually uses a count.
• Trig Conditions, same as Conditions command in the Trig Settings submenu. Double-clicking
the name of the setting presents a Triggering Conditions dialog box, where you can change
the conditions, which trigger the current datalogger.
• Trig Variable, same as Variable command in the Trig Settings submenu. Double-clicking the
name of the setting presents a Trig Variable dialog box, where you can change OPC address
of the variable, which is used in triggering the current datalogger. Note that the OPC address
is given without channel and node, and the name used by the drive, not the OPC address, is
shown in the value field.
• Trig Level, same as Level command in the Trig Settings submenu. Double-clicking the name
of the setting presents a Trig Level dialog box, where you can change the triggering level,
which is used in triggering the current datalogger.
• Trig Hysteresis, same as Hysteresis command in the Trig Settings submenu. Double-clicking
the name of the setting presents a Trig Hysteresis dialog box, where you can change the
triggering level hysteresis, which is used in triggering the current datalogger.
• X Axis Length, same as X Length command in the Axis submenu of the Datalogger menu.
Double-clicking the name of the setting presents an X Axis Length dialog box, where you can
change the x-axis length of the datalogger graph at current zooming level, if any.
• Y Axis Maximum, same as Y Axis Maximum command in the Axis submenu of the Datalogger
menu. Double-clicking the name of the setting presents a Y Axis Maximum dialog box, where
you can change the y-axis maximum value of the datalogger graph at current zooming level, if
any.
• Y Axis Minimum, same as Y Axis Minimum command in the Axis submenu of the Datalogger
menu. Double-clicking the name of the setting presents a Y Axis Minimum dialog box, where
you can change the y-axis minimum value of the datalogger graph at current zooming level, if
any.
• Channel 1, ... Channel 6, same as Channel 1, ... Channel 6 command in Scaling submenu of
the Datalogger menu. Depending on the scaling method selected in Graph Preferences,
either the coefficient and offset, or values at y=0 and at y=100 are displayed in the value field
of a setting. The coefficient and offset are displayed as a formula in form coefficient * x +
offset. The values at y=0 and y=100 are displayed within brackets ([]), separated with comma.
Double-clicking the name of a setting presents user a Channel Scaling dialog box. Changes
the coefficient and the offset, which are used to scale the measured value of the logged item
before it is drawn in the trend display pane.

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Note that if a channel has an item to be logged, the descriptive name of the item is shown as the name
of the setting instead of Channel n. The descriptive name is fetched from the drive, it is not the one
given by the user.
Note also that channels, which do not exist in the drive, show n/a as the name of the setting and the
value (scaling) is empty.

Note that if a setting is disabled, double-clicking it beeps.

To add, change, or remove logged items from the current datalogger, see Datalogger menu.
Note that selections of the channel settings can also be used to remove logged items from the current
datalogger. Also the triggering variable can be removed by selection. Removal is done by Delete
command.
Note! Many drives require that if not all channels are logged, the channels logged must be the first
ones. DriveWindow takes care about this by shifting logged items and their scaling values
“upwards”, if necessary. It also allows adding of a new logged item to the first free channel only.
The trend display pane contains a short vertical scrollbar. Clicking the up or down arrow on it also
changes Y Axis Maximum and Y Axis Minimum simultaneously.
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Note that if no valid datalogger is selected (for example, an open parameter file is selected in the
browse tree pane), n/a is displayed in all other value fields except the channels, which have n/a in the
setting names and the values (scaling) are empty. The datalogger display in the trend display pane is
empty, too.

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If the current datalogger is not properly initialized, many of the value fields display n/a, all channels
have n/a in their setting names and the values (scaling) are empty. The datalogger display in the trend
display pane is empty, too.

16.4 Trend Display Pane

The trend display pane is the lower right pane within the window area. It actually consists of two
displays, one of which is visible at a time:
• Monitor display.
• Datalogger display of the current datalogger.
They look and feel quite similar, so most of their features are explained here.
You select the display you want to see by clicking the Monitor or Datalogger tab at top of the trend
settings pane.

Selection of the display shown also affects the trend settings pane. It shows the monitor settings, if
monitor is selected, and the current datalogger settings, if datalogger is selected.

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You use the trend display pane to view trends collected by the monitor or the current datalogger.

The trend display pane contains the following:

1. Title, which indicates, what is currently displayed (monitor or datalogger and which
datalogger)
2. X-axis (the time axis). Its length can be set by user in the trend settings pane and also
changed by zooming. You can scroll x-axis horizontally, if there are more values collected
than are displayed. While monitoring, the x-axis scrolls in real time after the right end has
been reached.
3. Y-axis. Minimum and maximum can be set by user in the trend settings pane and also
changed by zooming. Minimum and maximum can also be changed by vertical scrolling.
4. The measured or logged trends.
5. Horizontal scroll bar, which is visible only when horizontal scrolling of the x-axis is possible.
6. Vertical scroll buttons. You can scroll the y-axis upwards and downwards.
7. X-axis label, always Time (s).
Size of the horizontal scrolling step is dependent on the current x-axis.
If you scroll horizontally by clicking the arrow buttons, scroll step is usually a fifth part of the length of
the x-axis. If only a few values are displayed, the step can be smaller.
If you scroll horizontally by clicking the shaft of the scroll bar, scroll step is usually equal to the length of
the x-axis.
Size of the vertical scrolling step is equal to the distance of two tick marks on the y-axis. Number of tick
marks shown may vary depending on the current y-axis minimum and maximum.

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If the Zoom In toggle in the View menu (or zoom in graph button in the standard toolbar) is not set, you
can display a cursor by clicking the drawing area (area limited by the axes) in the trend display pane.
Note that the cursor is also printed, if visible.

Depending on, whether scaled or unscaled values are to be shown, the cursor is either a dotted
(scaled values) or dashed (unscaled values) vertical line with the following numerical values:
1. Time at the point of the cursor (written vertically).
2. For each trend, value at the point of cursor, and the channel number within brackets (if there
is more than one trend).
The selection, whether to show scaled or unscaled values, can be made either by the Graph Cursor
command in the View menu, or Graph Preferences command in the Graph submenu of the File menu.
If you have set the cursor at a point, where the trends are near each other, the numerical values can
overlap, and are not readable. In such cases, especially if you are going to print the graph, you can
hide some of the values by unchecking them in the Graph Cursor dialog box shown by the Graph
Cursor command in the View menu.

You can move the cursor horizontally by dragging, or by clicking another point within the trend drawing
area. You can hide it by clicking the trend display pane outside the drawing area (area outside the
axes), or by changing to zoom in mode by toggling Zoom In in the View menu (or zoom in graph button
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If the Zoom In toggle in the View menu (or zoom in graph button in the standard toolbar) is set, you can
zoom in by dragging the mouse in the trend display pane, so that at least some of the rectangle shown
while dragging is inside the trend drawing area (area limited by the axes).

Note that while the rectangle is shown, DriveWindow stays topmost on the screen. Only an application
using the same feature (like Windows Task Manager) can overlay DriveWindow at that time. If it
happens that such an application overlays the rectangle, behavior of the zoom operation can not be
determined.
The rectangular area is used to approximately determine new x-axis length and y-axis minimum and
maximum in a new zooming level. The new values are made from the rectangle by rounding to a
“smooth” value. The new values are also show in the trend settings pane.

Note that it is possible that the rounded values of x-axis length and y-axis minimum and maximum are
the same as before zooming. If that is the case, you can use the trend settings to change them.
To restore back to the previous zooming level, select Zoom Out in the View menu (or zoom out graph
button in the standard toolbar).
To reset zooming back to the unzoomed level, select Zoom Reset in the View menu (or reset graph
zoom button in the standard toolbar).

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16.4.1 Monitor Display

The monitor display is one of the displays shown in the trend display pane.
You select the display by clicking the Monitor tab at top of the trend settings pane.

Selection of the display shown also affects the trend settings pane. It shows the monitor settings, if
monitor is selected.
The monitor can be in the following states:
• Cleared. You can change any of the settings in this state. Only a stopped monitor can be
cleared. Exporting the graph is not possible (there are no values to export). No cursor can be
shown. Zooming and horizontal scrolling are not possible.
• Running. The trends are drawn in real time. No cursor can be shown. Zooming and horizontal
scrolling are not possible. Saving, printing, copying, and exporting the graph is not possible.
• Paused. Same as Stopped, but values are still collected, however not drawn, and you can
later continue monitoring. Collected values are drawn, when you restore running state. You
can also stop the monitor, in which case the values collected behind the scene are lost.
• Stopped. Only mode, interval, and size of history buffer cannot be changed. Cursor can be
shown. Zooming and horizontal scrolling are possible. You have to clear the monitor before
running it again. Note that some changes (such as scaling) require redrawing all data in the
history buffer, which can take a long time.
You can scroll vertically and change x-axis length and y-axis minimum and maximum in all states.
See Also: Trend Display Pane
Monitor Menu
Monitor Toolbar
Monitor Settings

16.4.2 Datalogger Display

The datalogger display is one of the displays shown in the trend display pane. The display shows the
current datalogger (see browse tree pane). The display is blank, if there is no current datalogger or the
current datalogger is not initialized in the drive.
You select the display by clicking the Datalogger tab at top of the trend settings pane.

Selection of the display shown also affects the trend settings pane. It shows the datalogger settings of
the current datalogger, if datalogger is selected.
The title shown includes also the OPC Address of the datalogger. You can use it to verify that you are
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Note that origin of the x-axis is the triggering moment. Thus negative time values represent time before
triggering and positive after the triggering event.
The datalogger display can be in two states:
• Cleared. You can change any of the settings in this state, if the datalogger in the drive is not
running. Note that you enter into this state by Clear Graph command (or clear datalogger
graph in the datalogger toolbar). Normal Clear command (or clear drive datalogger in the
datalogger toolbar) controls the datalogger residing in the drive. The datalogger settings are
taken from the drive and changes are written to the drive. Exporting the graph is not possible
(there are no values to export). No cursor can be shown. Zooming and horizontal scrolling are
not possible.
• Uploaded. The settings are frozen when the datalogger is uploaded. You can change x-axis
length and y-axis minimum and maximum in this state, however. Scaling can be changed,
too. Cursor can be shown. Zooming and horizontal scrolling are possible. You have to clear
the datalogger graph before uploading it again. The Status setting can be toggled on-line/off-
line. When off-line, it shows the uploaded status, when on-line, it shows current status.
Note that in both states it is possible to send commands to the datalogger, e.g., start it while still
viewing the uploaded results.
Note that there is a common window shared by all dataloggers. When the current datalogger is
changed, the window is redrawn. The uploaded values and settings are cached in DriveWindow, so
changing happens quickly.
See Also: Trend Display Pane
Datalogger Menu
Logger Toolbar
Datalogger Settings

17. Scrollbars
Scrollbars are displayed at the right and bottom edges of a document window. They are not visible if
the document fits into the view.

Parts of a scrollbar are:

1. Scroll arrows
2. Scrollbar shaft
3. Scroll box (thumb)
The scroll boxes inside the scrollbars indicate your vertical and horizontal location in the document.
You can use the mouse to scroll to other parts of the document.
When you click in a scrollbar shaft, the document scrolls a “page”. When you click in a scroll arrow, the
document scrolls a "line" or “character”. You can also drag a scroll box (thumb) to set the scroll
position.
See Also: Overview

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18. Common Dialogs

Some commonly used dialog boxes are explained here:
• File Comment dialog box for viewing, entering, and editing comments in files.
• Open dialog box for opening files.
• Print Setup dialog box for selecting and adjusting settings of the printer to be used.
• Save As (and like) dialog box for saving files.

18.1 File Comment Dialog

The File Comment dialog box is used to view, enter, and edit comments in parameter,
graph/workspace, and some export files.

When the dialog box is shown while saving first time or exporting a file, the default comment set by
DriveWindow is a time stamp consisting of current date and time. However, the default comment for
graph/workspace files is empty.
Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
When you are ready with your comment, press Enter or click the OK button. If you want to cancel the
save or export operation, press Esc or click the Cancel button.
See Also: How to Save Parameters
How to Compare Parameters
How to Export Parameters
How to Save Workspace
Viewing and Editing File Comment (Workspace)
Saving Trends
Viewing and Editing File Comment (Trends)

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18.2 Open Dialog

The Open dialog box is used to open various files in DriveWindow.

The dialog box contains:

1. Edit field to enter the filename.
2. Drop-down list to select type of files listed in the list box of folders and files.
3. Check field to open the file in read-only mode (not included in all Open dialog boxes).
4. Button to do the opening or refreshing the list box of folders and files, if a wild card
construction was entered into the File name field. Same as pressing the Enter key.
5. Button to cancel the operation. Same as pressing the Esc key.
6. List box containing list of folders and files in the current folder. Files shown are filtered by the
selected Files of type, or a wild card construction in the File name field. Clicking a file name in
the list box puts its name into the File name edit field. Double-clicking opens the file.
7. Scrollbar for scrolling the list box, if needed.
8. Drop-down list to browse and change the current folder, content of which is then shown in the
list box.
9. Button to change the current folder up one level.
a. Button to create a new folder within the current folder.
b. Button to select only names to be shown in the list box.
c. Button to select detailed information about the to be shown in the list box, too.
d. Button to enter help mode (a question mark is attached to the cursor and clicking an object
with such a cursor shows a help text bubble, if there is one available for the object). Help can
be asked about some objects also by right-clicking the object and, if a What’s This? menu
pops up, clicking the menu.
The Open dialog box can also be used as a mini explorer. The file selected in the list box can be
renamed, deleted, copied, pasted, etc. the same way as in the NT Explorer, by using shortcut keys, for
example.

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You can also right click a file or folder name in the list box to get a pop-up menu, from which you can
select the NT Explorer command to be executed.

Right-clicking the background of the list box brings up another menu, which allows you to execute
more NT Explorer commands.

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18.3 Print Setup Dialog

The Print Setup dialog box is used to select and adjust settings of the printer to be used in printing
graphs.

In addition to be able to select the printer, paper size, orientation, and source, you can do printer
dependent adjustments by clicking the Properties button.
Note that when a graph is printed, it is automatically expanded to fill the printing area of the selected
paper. If you want the print-out to look similar than it is displayed on your screen, paper orientation
should be landscape.

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18.4 Save As Dialog

The Save As dialog box and its variants are used to name the file to be saved in various situations in
DriveWindow.

The dialog box contains:

1. Title explaining the operation.
2. Edit field to enter the filename to be used.
3. Drop-down list to select type of files listed in the list box of folders and files.
4. Button to do the opening or refreshing the list box of folders and files, if a wild card
construction was entered into the File name field. Same as pressing the Enter key.
5. Button to cancel the operation. Same as pressing the Esc key.
6. List box containing list of folders and files in the current folder. Files shown are filtered by the
selected Files of type, or a wild card construction in the File name field. Clicking a file name in
the list box puts its name into the File name edit field. Double-clicking uses the name of the
file double-clicked.
7. Scrollbar for scrolling the list box, if needed.
8. Drop-down list to browse and change the current folder, content of which is then shown in the
list box.
9. Button to change the current folder up one level.
a. Button to create a new folder within the current folder.
b. Button to select only names to be shown in the list box.
c. Button to select detailed information about the to be shown in the list box, too.
d. Button to enter help mode (a question mark is attached to the cursor and clicking an object
with such a cursor shows a help text bubble, if there is one available for the object). Help can
be asked about some objects also by right-clicking the object and, if a What’s This? menu
pops up, clicking the menu.

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If the file already exists, confirmation about replacing it is asked.

If you click the No button, the Save As dialog box is restored.

If the file already exists and is read-only, you get a message that you cannot replace it.

The Save As dialog box can also be used as a mini explorer. The file selected in the list box can be
renamed, deleted, copied, pasted, etc. the same way as in the NT Explorer, by using shortcut keys, for
example.

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You can also right click a file or folder name in the list box to get a pop-up menu, from which you can
select the NT Explorer command to be executed.

Right-clicking the background of the list box brings up another menu, which allows you to execute
more NT Explorer commands.

19. Shortcut Keys

A shortcut key, also called hot key or accelerator key, is a keyboard key or key combination, which
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There are DriveWindow specific shortcut keys, which may have quite different meaning in other
application programs, and common Windows shortcut keys, which have the same meaning in most
applications adhering to Windows user interface recommendation.
Note! Shortcut keys other than F1 do not work while a menu is dropped-down.

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19.1 DriveWindow Specific Shortcuts

The following are DriveWindow specific shortcut keys, which may have quite different meaning in other
application programs.
Shortcut Command.

Ctrl+W Open command in the Workspace submenu of the File menu. Presents an Open
dialog box for selecting the file containing the workspace settings to be restored.
Restores the workspace settings from the file.
Ctrl+Shift+W Save As command in the Workspace submenu of the File menu. Presents a Save
As dialog box for naming or selecting the file, into which the workspace settings are
saved. Saves the current workspace settings to the file.
Ctrl+O Open command in the Parameters submenu of the File menu. Presents an Open
dialog box for selecting the file containing parameters. Opens the file so that the
parameters are browsable in the browse tree pane.
Ctrl+S Save As command in the Parameters submenu of the File menu. Presents a Save
As dialog box for naming or selecting the file, into which the parameters are saved.
Saves parameters of the drive or open parameter file currently selected in the
browse tree pane.
Ctrl+D Download command in Parameters submenu of the File menu.If not downloading
parameters of a drive from the currently open parameter file, the parameter file is
requested by presenting a Download dialog box, which is similar to the Open dialog
box. Presents a Select Restore Type dialog box, which allows you to choose,
whether user data, ID run results, or both, is to be downloaded. Downloads the
parameters from the parameter file to the drive selected in the browse tree pane.
Ctrl+Shift+Z Zoom In toggle in the View menu, same as zoom in graph button in the standard
toolbar. Puts the trend display pane into zoom-in mode, which allows the user to
select the zoom-in area.
Ctrl+N Network Servers command in the Network menu. Presents a Select OPC Server
dialog box and connects to the selected server, which can also reside in a remote
PC.
Ctrl+Shift+N Disconnect Server command in the Network menu. Disconnects the currently
connected OPC Server.
Alt+F2 Take Control/Release Control command in the Drive menu, same as take/realise
control button in the Drive Panel toolbar. Toggles the control status of the drive,
which is selected from the browse tree pane. Note that it is possible to control most
one drive at a time. Toggling the control status changes the menu text.
Alt+F8 Reset Fault command in the Drive menu, same as reset fault button in the Drive
Panel toolbar. Sends fault reset command to the currently controlled drive.
Shift+F9 Start command in the Drive menu, same as start button in the Drive Panel toolbar.
Sends start command to the currently controlled drive.
Shift+F10 Stop command in the Drive menu, same as stop button in the Drive Panel toolbar.
Sends stop command to the currently controlled drive.
Ctrl+F5 Reverse or On command in the Drive menu, same as reverse or close contactor
button in the Drive Panel toolbar. Sends reverse or contactor close command to the
currently controlled AC or DC drive.
Ctrl+F6 Forward or Off command in the Drive menu, same as forward or open contactor
button in the Drive Panel toolbar. Sends forward or contactor open command to the
currently controlled AC or DC drive.

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Ctrl+F4 Coast Stop command in the Drive menu, same as coast stop button in the Drive
Panel toolbar. Sends coast stop command to the currently controlled drive.
Ctrl+A Add New Item command in the Desktop menu, same as add item button in the
standard toolbar. Presents an Add Item to Desktop dialog box and adds the item,
OPC Address of which is given, into the item list pane. The item is named by the
user.
F3 Change Display Format command in the View menu. Presents a dialog box, in
which the user can temporarily change display format of the values of the selected
items in the item list pane, or numerical values shown with the graph cursor of the
selected channels in the trend display pane.
Ctrl+M Start command or Continue command, if monitor is paused, in the Monitor menu,
same as start or continue monitoring button in the monitor toolbar. Starts or
continues monitoring.
Ctrl+Shift+M Stop monitoring command in the Monitor menu, same as Stop button in the monitor
toolbar. Stops monitoring. Monitor must be cleared before it can be started again.
Ctrl+Shift+P Pause command in the Monitor menu, same as pause monitoring button in the
monitor toolbar. The monitored items are still measured, but the display freezes until
monitoring is continued.
Ctrl+Shift+S Autoscale command in the Scaling submenu of the Monitor and Datalogger menus.
DriveWindow calculates and sets proper scaling of all or selected trends.
Ctrl+Shift+Y Adapt Y Axis command in the Axis submenu of the Monitor and Datalogger menus.
DriveWindow selects and sets proper y-axis minimum and maximum values of the
corresponding graph at current zooming level, if any, for you.

Note! Shortcut keys other than F1 do not work while a menu is dropped-down.

The following common Window shortcuts are marked in the DriveWindow Edit menu.

Shortcut Function.

Ctrl+X Cuts the selected item(s) to the clipboard.

Ctrl+C Copies the selected item(s) to the clipboard.
Del Deletes the selected item(s).

19.2 Some Common Windows Shortcuts

The following are some common Windows shortcut keys, which have the same meaning in most
applications adhering to Windows user interface recommendation. Note that not all of the shortcuts
presented here work with DriveWindow.

19.2.1 General Windows Keys

Shortcut Function.

F1 Displays Help information for the active object or the window as a whole.
Shift+F1 Enters help mode. To display context-sensitive Help, move the question
mark pointer to the object you want help on (such as a toolbar), and click.
Windows key Opens the Start menu located on the taskbar.
Ctrl+Esc

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19.2.2 Task, Shutting Down, and Cancel

Shortcut Function.

Ctrl+Alt+Del Opens the Windows NT Security dialog box.

Del Deletes the selected item(s). If the items are files, moves them to the
Recycle Bin.
Ctrl+X Cuts the selected item(s) to the clipboard.
Ctrl+C Copies the selected item(s) to the clipboard.
Ctrl+Ins
Ctrl+V Pastes the copied items(s) from the clipboard.
Shift+Ins
Windows key+M Minimizes all open windows.
Windows key+Shift+M Restores all windows minimized by Windows key+M.
Windows key+E Opens the Windows Explorer.
Windows key+F Opens the Find: All Files dialog box.
Windows key+R Opens the Run dialog box.
Windows key+Break Opens the System Properties dialog box.
Windows key+Ctrl+F Opens the Find Computer dialog box.
Application key Opens the shortcut menu for the active item (same as right-click).
Shift+F10

19.2.3 Desktop and Taskbar Navigation Keys

Shortcut Function.

Windows key+M Minimizes all open windows.

Windows key+Shift+M Restores all windows minimized by Windows key+M.
Arrow key Selects the adjacent icon or taskbar button in the direction of the arrow.
Any printing character Selects the next icon with the specified name or initial letter
Windows key Opens the Start menu from the taskbar. Press Esc again to place the
Ctrl+Esc keyboard focus on the Start button.
Windows key+Tab Cycles through the taskbar buttons.
F2 Rename a selected item. A bold rectangle appears around the title
creating a text box. Type the new name and press Enter. Press Esc to
cancel.
F3 Opens the Find: All files dialog box

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19.2.4 Window Manipulation Keys

Shortcut Function.

Alt+F4 Closes the active application window. (This can also be opened from the
Program menu of the active application.)
Alt+Spacebar Opens the Program menu from the leftmost icon on the title bar of the
active window. The Program menu typically contains the following
commands: Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close.
Alt+Tab Switches to the most recently used application window. To select an
Alt+Shift+Tab application from a list, continue to hold Alt down and press Tab more than
once to move through the list. Add Shift to reverse direction through the
list.
Alt+Esc Switches keyboard focus to next application window, including minimized
Alt+Shift+Esc windows on the taskbar. Press Esc more than once to switch through
successive windows and add Shift to reverse the direction.
Alt+Enter Switches a MS DOS-based application between full-screen and windowed
modes.
PrintScreen Copies an image of the screen to the clipboard.
Alt+PrintScreen Copies an image of the active window to the clipboard.

19.2.5 Document Windows Keys

Shortcut Function.

Ctrl+F4 Closes the active document window.

Ctrl+F6 Switches to next document window in the active application.
Ctrl+Shift+F6 Switches to previous document window in the active.
Alt+Hyphen Opens the Document menu from the leftmost icon on the title bar of the
active document window. The Document menu typically contains the
following commands: Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close.

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19.2.6 Menu Commands

Shortcut Function.

Windows key Opens the Start menu on the taskbar.

Ctrl+Esc
Alt Activates the menu bar of the active window. The leftmost menu name is
F10 selected. Press F10 or Alt again to toggle the focus back to where it was
previously.
Left Arrow Moves the focus between menus on the menu bar in the direction of the
Right Arrow arrow. If the original menu was open, the target menu will be opened and
the focus on the first item.
Up Arrow Opens the selected menu. Down Arrow selects the next command in the
Down Arrow list. Up Arrow selects the previous command in the list.
Enter Opens the selected menu when focus is on the menu title, but it activates
a menu item when focus is on a menu item. If the selected menu item is
unavailable, Enter closes the menu.
Alt+Spacebar Opens the Program menu from the leftmost icon on the title bar of the
active window. The Program menu typically contains the following
commands: Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close.
Alt+Hyphen Opens the Document menu from the leftmost icon on the title bar if the
active document window. The Document menu typically contains the
following commands: Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize and Close.
Esc Closes an open menu and moves the focus back to the parent menu if
there is one. Otherwise it returns the focus to the menu title. If the focus
was already on the menu title, focus moves back to wherever it was
before activating the menu bar.
Alt+Any printing character Chooses the menu with the underlined character (access key) on the main
menu bar.
Any printing character Chooses the command with the underlined character (access key) on an
open menu.
Application key Opens the shortcut menu for the active item (same as right-click).
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19.2.7 Text Navigation and Editing Keys

Shortcut Function.

Ins Toggles between overtype and insertion modes. (Edit controls only
support insert mode.)
1)
Arrow key Moves the pointer one character in the direction of the Arrow key. If there
is selected text, moves the pointer to the end of the selection and
deselects the text.
1)
Home Moves the pointer to the beginning or end of the current line.
1)
End
1)
PgUp Moves the pointer up or down one screen or to the first or last line.
1)
PgDn
1)
Ctrl+Right Moves the pointer to the beginning of the next or previous word.
1)
Ctrl+Left
1)
Ctrl+Up Moves the pointer to the beginning of the preceding or next paragraph.
1)
Ctrl+Down (Not supported in edit controls.)
1)
Ctrl+Home Moves the pointer to the beginning or the end of the document. (Not
1)
Ctrl+End supported in edit controls.)
Del Deletes the next character or the selected text.
Backspace Deletes the previous character or the selected text.
Ctrl+Z Undoes the last action.
Alt+Backspace
Ctrl+C Copies selected text to clipboard.
Ctrl+Ins
Ctrl+X Cuts the selected text to the clipboard.
Shift+Del
Ctrl+V Pastes copied text from clipboard.
Shift+Ins
1)
Press Shift with the key to select blocks of text for editing. For example, press Shift+End to select text
from the pointer to the end of the line. Shift toggles, in other words you can also use Shift+the above
navigation keys to both select and deselect text.

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Contents
1. What is Workspace ......................................................................................................................3-1
1.1.1 Saved Graphs..................................................................................................................3-2

2. What are Preferences ..................................................................................................................3-2

2.1.1 Common Preferences .....................................................................................................3-3
2.1.2 Personalized Preferences ...............................................................................................3-3

3. Why to Use Workspaces .............................................................................................................3-3

4. How to Save Workspace .............................................................................................................3-4

4.1.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:.....................................................................3-5
4.1.2 Saving for Off-line............................................................................................................3-6
4.1.3 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed: ...........................................................3-7

5. How to Restore Workspace ........................................................................................................3-7

5.1 Opening a Workspace File .....................................................................................................3-8
5.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed: .........................................................................3-9
5.2 Viewing and Editing the File Comment .................................................................................3-10

6. Off-line Mode ..............................................................................................................................3-11

7. Workspace Preferences ............................................................................................................3-11

7.1 General Preferences.............................................................................................................3-12
7.2 Workspace Save Preferences ..............................................................................................3-13
7.3 Workspace Restore Preferences .........................................................................................3-14
7.4 Workspace Autosave Preferences .......................................................................................3-15

1.1.1 Saved Graphs

Saved graphs are actually incomplete off-line workspaces, which contain just enough information to
restore the graphs saved within them.
Thus it is possible to open a graph file (.dwt) as a workspace, too.
See Also: What are Preferences

2. What are Preferences

Preferences are settings, which allow the user to control various behaviours of DriveWindow.
The following is a list of groups of preferences the user can set:
• Workspace Preferences
• Graph Preferences
• Graph Cursor
• Desktop Preferences
If you are working with a same computer and keep your preferences constant, you need not to be
aware, what is saved in a workspace.
However, if you restore a workspace made elsewhere, settings restored from the workspace may differ
from your settings. They are in effect only while the workspace is open. When you restart DriveWindow
or restore a workspace of your own, your preferences are effective again.
Graph Cursor settings, step settings, and drive status refreshing setting are saved in a workspace file.
Other preferences are not changed when restoring a workspace.
Note that when a preference is restored from a workspace file, it is in effect only while the workspace is
open. When you restart DriveWindow, the last preference settings that you made are effective again.

Preferences can be either common for all users of a computer or personalized, i.e., separate for each
user. The setting can be changed in Workspace Preferences.
Note that the selection, whether to use common or personalized preferences, is always personalized. It
means that each user can separately select, whether she uses common preferences or preferences of
her own.

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2.1.1 Common Preferences

DriveWindow keeps common preferences and status information in DW21.INI file in the Windows
directory.
Never edit this file because it may crash DriveWindow. However, you can delete the file, which causes
DriveWindow to use default preferences.
Because common preferences are kept in a single file, it is easy to copy the preferences to another
computer just by copying the file.
We recommend that you use common preferences instead of personalized whenever possible,
especially if:
• You are the only user of the computer or DriveWindow
• All users are working on the same project

2.1.2 Personalized Preferences

DriveWindow keeps personalized preferences in registry under the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DriveWindow\Preferences. Note that HKEY_CURRENT_USER is
unique for each user.
Never edit this part of registry because it may crash DriveWindow. However, you can delete the key,
which causes DriveWindow to use common preferences and sets personalized preferences to the
default values.
Although it is possible to copy parts of registry to another computer, it is risky and beyond the scope of
this document.
We recommend that you use common preferences instead of personalized whenever possible.
Consider using personalized preferences only if the computer and DriveWindow have several
unrelated users (demo use, for example).
See Also: What is Workspace

3. Why to Use Workspaces

The basic idea of using workspaces is to let you exit from DriveWindow and later easily to continue
from that point (with some exceptions). In general, you can do it as follows:
• Just before you exit, save your current settings into a workspace file.
• Exit DriveWindow.
• When you later restart DriveWindow, do not connect the OPC Server.
• Open the workspace file you saved, and DriveWindow restores the settings, including
connection to the OPC Server.
Instead of first starting DriveWindow and then opening the workspace file, you can in Windows NT
Explorer, for example, double click the workspace file. DriveWindow starts and opens immediately the
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If you often interrupt your work and want to continue later from the point you left, you can set the
preferences to automatically save and restore the workspace when DriveWindow exits and is started
again.
You can use workspaces also to make/restore settings of own during a DriveWindow session. For
example, you may have several signals and parameters from different groups, which you want to see
together in the item list pane. If you have many of such groupings of your own, you can save each of
you settings into a separate workspace file. Restoring of such a workspace during a session happens
quickly because the OPC Server is not disconnected, if it is currently the same as the one saved into
the workspace file.
You can do it as follows:
• Connect to the OPC Server as normal.
• Browse the items you want to see and lock them into the item list pane. If you wish, put them
on-line.
• Save the settings into a workspace file.
• Repeat the two preceding steps for each of your favourite settings, but saving the settings into
separate workspace file.
• When you want restore a specific setting, open the corresponding workspace file.
It is also possible to save the workspace for off-line viewing. This feature allows you to save data on
site and view it later at the office, for example.
The feature can be enabled in the Workspace Preferences. When the feature is enabled, the Save As
dialog box contains a Save for Offline check field, checking of which writes off-line information into the
workspace file. When such a workspace file is restored, DriveWindow goes off-line and fetches all data
from the file.
Note that saved graphs are actually incomplete off-line workspaces, which contain just enough
information to restore the graphs saved within them.

4. How to Save Workspace

If you are going to save the workspace for off-line viewing with data from a single drive, please select
first the drive by clicking it in the browse tree pane. It is not necessary to select the root, however.
Selection of any of its sub-branches will do.

Select Save As command residing in the Workspace submenu of the File menu.

A Save As dialog box is displayed.

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4.1.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:

• From Save in, browse into the drive and directory, into which you want to save the workspace
file
• Enter the name of the workspace file into File name or, if you want to replace an existing file,
click the filename you want to replace
• Click Save and a file comment is requested

If, in Workspace Preferences, Save for Offline is enabled, a Save for Offlline check field is shown in
the Save As dialog box. Please uncheck it, unless you want to save the workspace for off-line.

If the file already exists, confirmation to replace it asked.

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4.1.2 Saving for Off-line

If you checked the Save for Offline check field in the Save As dialog box, a Save for Offline dialog box
is shown. Note that the check field is visible only if DriveWindow is connected to at least one drive.

You have now the option to select:

• What items to save (at least one group has to be selected)
• Whether to save the items of all drives or of only the drive selected in the browse tree pane
• Whether to include monitor and/or uploaded dataloggers
• Whether to compress the workspace file or not
You have also the option to cancel saving for off-line, in which case the Save As dialog box reappears.
Note that it is possible to select saving of graphs of uploaded dataloggers only, if All is selected.
If you have made selections, which require a long time to execute (such as saving parameters of all
drives), DriveWindow informs you about it by displaying a message box.

If you click No, the Save for Offline dialog box reappears.

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4.1.3 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed:

The comment field is empty by default.

• Enter, add, edit, or accept the comment in the edit field
• Click OK, and saving starts

Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
See Also: Save As Dialog
How to Restore Workspace
What is Workspace
Off-line Mode
Workspace Preferences

5. How to Restore Workspace

Instead of first starting DriveWindow and then opening the workspace file, you can in Windows NT
Explorer, for example, double click the workspace file. DriveWindow starts and opens immediately the
workspace.

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Otherwise, if you are going to restore a workspace while starting up DriveWindow, you need not to
connect the OPC Server. So, click Cancel, when the Select OPC Server dialog box is displayed.

Now that DriveWindow is disconnected, you can restore your settings, including the OPC Server
connection, by opening a workspace file.
However, if the workspace was saved for off-line (or is a graph file), the connection is not restored.
Instead, DriveWindow goes into off-line mode.
If you want to restore settings from a workspace file during a DriveWindow session, just open the
workspace file.
See Also: How to Save Workspace
What is Workspace
Off-line Mode

5.1 Opening a Workspace File

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5.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed:

• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the workspace file resides
• Click the workspace file you want to open
• Click Open and the workspace settings are restored

Note! You can also enter the name of the workspace file into File name, with or without a directory
path.
Note! Do not open a workspace made for another drive configuration. Although the opening may
succeed, the information shown can be misleading. Descriptive names of parameters, for
example, are taken from the workspace file. They can be quite different from names in the drive,
if drive types differ
If you have control taken, but the connection to the OPC Server does not change, DriveWindow
prompts you about releasing control.

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If DriveWindow is currently on-line and the connected OPC Server changes, you are prompted about
disconnecting the current OPC Server (and about releasing control, if control is taken).

5.2 Viewing and Editing the File Comment

When you have opened a workspace file, you can view and edit the file comment that was saved with
it.

Note! Because a graph file is actually a special workspace file, you can view and edit the comment as
a graph file comment, too.
A File Comment dialog box is presented. It shows the comment in its edit field. The comment text is
selected, which means that if you just start typing, the previous text is replaced by your new comment.

Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
When you are done with editing, click the OK button. Click the Cancel button, if you do not want to
change the comment.

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7.1 General Preferences

You can set general workspace preferences in the Workspace Preferences dialog box by selecting the
General tab.

General preferences are:

• Selection to use either common or personalized preferences. If you change the setting, we
recommend that you restart DriveWindow.
• Option to compress the graphical data when saving graphs or including graphs in a
workspace file. This option does not affect saving a workspace for off-line, compression of
which is controlled by the Save for Offline dialog box.
• Option, whether to show the Save for Offline check field in the Save As dialog box, which is
shown, when saving of the workspace is requested, or not. If the check field is not shown,
saving for off-line is not possible.
You should use compression with care. Compressing and expanding can take considerable time and
may require large amount of disk space for temporal files.
We recommend that you use compression only, if an otherwise very big workspace or graph file needs
to be transported by electronic means. Also, if you need to have a big collection of workspace or graph
files, you may consider use of compression.
See Also: Workspace Preferences

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7.2 Workspace Save Preferences

You can set workspace save preferences in the Workspace Preferences dialog box by selecting the
Save tab.

Save preferences are:

• Option to save also monitored data with a workspace.
• Option to save also data of uploaded dataloggers with a workspace.
These options do not affect saving a workspace for off-line, behaviour of which is controlled by the
Save for Offline dialog box.
Restoring of saved monitor or uploaded datalogger data is selected separately.
Saving of graphs with a workspace slows down the saving process and the resulting workspace file
can be big. On the other hand, saving and restoring graphs with a workspace makes it easier to
continue working, if DriveWindow requires restarting.
See Also: Workspace Preferences
Workspace Restore Preferences
Workspace Autosave Preferences

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7.3 Workspace Restore Preferences

You can set workspace restore preferences in the Workspace Preferences dialog box by selecting the
Restore tab.

Restore preferences are:

• Option to restore monitor in case monitor data is included in a workspace.
• Option to restore uploaded dataloggers in case datalogger data is included in a workspace.
Restoring of a monitor channel can be done only, if the monitored variable is found from the drive.
Restoring of an uploaded datalogger can be done only, if the datalogger is found from the drive.
Restoring of graphs from a workspace slows down the workspace restoring process. On the other
hand, saving and restoring graphs with a workspace makes it easier to continue working, if
DriveWindow requires restarting.
See Also: Workspace Preferences
Workspace Save Preferences
Workspace Autosave Preferences

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7.4 Workspace Autosave Preferences

You can set workspace autosave preferences in the Workspace Preferences dialog box by selecting
the AutoSave tab.

Autosave preferences are:

• Option to enable autosave.
• Option to save and restore monitored data with the automatically saved workspace.
• Option to save and restore data of uploaded dataloggers with the automatically saved
workspace.
• Option to select location of the automatically saved workspace (Windows temporal folder by
default).
• Option to select name of the automatically saved workspace (DW21AutoSave.dww by
default).
Restoring of a monitor channel can be done only, if the monitored variable is found from the drive.
Restoring of an uploaded datalogger can be done only, if the datalogger is found from the drive.
Enabled autosave means that DriveWindow automatically saves the workspace when it exits. When
DriveWindow starts normally, the automatically saved workspace is restored. This makes it very easy
to interrupt working and continue it later. However, autosave can make exiting and starting slow.
Double clicking a DriveWindow file in the NT Explorer (for example) by-passes automatic workspace
restoring. In this case DriveWindow starts and opens the file that was double clicked.
See Also: Workspace Preferences
Workspace Save Preferences
Workspace Restore Preferences

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Contents
1. Definitions ....................................................................................................................................4-2
1.1 What are Parameters and Signals..........................................................................................4-2
1.2 What is Parameter File ...........................................................................................................4-3
1.3 What is Control Item Set.........................................................................................................4-3

2. Opening a Parameter File............................................................................................................4-4

3. Closing a Parameter File .............................................................................................................4-6

4. Browsing Parameters and Signals.............................................................................................4-7

4.1 Browsing with Passcode Changes..........................................................................................4-9
4.1.1 Unhiding.........................................................................................................................4-10
4.1.2 Hiding.............................................................................................................................4-10

5. Viewing Parameters and Signals..............................................................................................4-11

5.1 Changing Display Format of Item Values .............................................................................4-13
5.2 Locking and Unlocking Items................................................................................................4-16
5.3 Deleting Items from the Desktop ..........................................................................................4-16
5.4 Updating Item Values............................................................................................................4-17
5.4.1 Hint ................................................................................................................................4-18
5.5 Putting Items On-line and Off-line.........................................................................................4-18
5.6 Copying Items to the Clipboard.............................................................................................4-19
5.7 Adding Items to the Desktop.................................................................................................4-20

6. Changing the Control Item Set .................................................................................................4-22

7. Changing Parameters................................................................................................................4-24

8. How to Save Parameters ...........................................................................................................4-28

8.1.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:...................................................................4-30
8.1.2 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed: .........................................................4-30
8.1.3 While the parameters are uploaded ..............................................................................4-31
8.1.4 Name of the saved open parameter file changes..........................................................4-31
8.2 Viewing and Editing Saved Parameters................................................................................4-31
8.2.1 Viewing and Editing the Comment ................................................................................4-32
8.2.2 Deleting Parameter Groups...........................................................................................4-33

9. How to Restore Parameters ......................................................................................................4-34

9.1.1 Restoring from an Open Parameter File .......................................................................4-35
9.1.2 Restoring from a Requested Parameter File.................................................................4-36
9.1.3 Version Check ...............................................................................................................4-37
9.1.4 Restore Type Selection .................................................................................................4-37
9.1.5 Confirmation ..................................................................................................................4-38
9.1.6 Downloading ..................................................................................................................4-38
9.1.7 Restarting the Drive .......................................................................................................4-39
9.1.8 How Errors are Shown...................................................................................................4-40

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10. How to Compare Parameters ............................................................................................... 4-41

10.1.1 Comparing a Drive with the Open Parameter File ........................................................ 4-41
10.1.2 Comparing a Drive with a Requested Parameter File .................................................. 4-42
10.1.3 Comparing two Parameter Files ................................................................................... 4-43
10.1.4 Comparison Results ..................................................................................................... 4-44
10.1.5 Exporting....................................................................................................................... 4-44
10.1.6 Closing .......................................................................................................................... 4-44
10.1.7 Viewing ......................................................................................................................... 4-44

11. How to Export Parameters.................................................................................................... 4-46

11.1.1 To export parameters in an open parameter file .......................................................... 4-47
11.1.2 To export parameters in a drive.................................................................................... 4-47
11.1.3 To export parameters of all drives ................................................................................ 4-48
11.1.4 To export parameter differences .................................................................................. 4-48
11.1.5 When the Export dialog box is displayed:..................................................................... 4-48
11.1.6 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed:......................................................... 4-49
11.1.7 While the parameters are uploaded ............................................................................. 4-49
11.1.8 Example of exported parameters of a drive.................................................................. 4-50
11.1.9 Example of exported parameter differences................................................................. 4-50

12. How to Do System Software Version Upgrade ................................................................... 4-51

12.1.1 Preparing ...................................................................................................................... 4-51
12.1.2 Downloading System Software ..................................................................................... 4-51
12.1.3 Restoring Parameters................................................................................................... 4-51
12.1.4 Finishing........................................................................................................................ 4-52

13. Desktop Preferences ............................................................................................................. 4-53

• Parameters and Signals

• Parameter File
• Control Item Set

1.1 What are Parameters and Signals

Strictly speaking, parameter and signals are items organized into parameter groups in a drive. Their
OPC Addresses are of form:
{channel}{node}Par.m.n
where m is the group number and n is index within group.
Except in some rare cases, DriveWindow handles all kinds of OPC items similarly, however. Thus, in a
broad sense, all OPC items can be regarded as parameters or signals. So, in this documentation,
when we speak about parameters and signals, we mean any OPC item, unless otherwise stated.
Signals are read-only. Parameters can be written. Most of the parameters can be read as well, but,
depending on the drive, there can exist write-only parameters.

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Parameter groups within drive can be passcode protected. In order to be able to browse them, you
have to enter a proper value into a passcode parameter.
User parameters are, loosely speaking, parameters and signals belonging to non-passcode protected
parameter groups 1-99. Actual user parameters depend on the drive.
ID run result parameters depend on the drive and are usually passcode protected.

1.2 What is Parameter File

A parameter file has filename extension DWP and it contains (in internal ASCII format) information
about parameters and signals of a drive.
Not all parameters of a drive are there. In addition of groups, which were not under passcode
protection at save time, there are parameters required during download, Application Properites, and
drive Properties without sub-branches.

Note that because editing of a parameter file is possible, groups within Parameters (and even the
Parameters sub-branch) can be removed by a user.
Note also that DriveWindow 2 is able to read older parameter (*.DWP) files made by DriveWindow 1.x,
if the drive family was ACS600.
A parameter file is made by a specific command, which saves the parameters of the selected drive into
the file. Also an open parameter file can be saved.
A parameter file can be opened before you download it to a drive or compare it with a drive. It must be
opened before you can edit it or compare it with another parameter file. An open parameter file can be
saved, browsed, and values viewed and changed (except write-only parameters) the same way as if it
was a drive.
Note that instead of descriptive names of passcode protected parameters required by download, an
artificial descriptive name is used in a parameter file.

1.3 What is Control Item Set

Control item set is a set of items (signals and/or parameters), which are automatically put into the item
list pane, when control is taken.
User is able to define a control item set of her own or restore the defaults.
The default control item set consists of the following items:
1)
Name OPC Address Note
Last fault FL.00.Description Read only
Reference Control.Reference Write only
Reference (actual) Status.Reference Read only

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1)
Always without channel and node
Note! The name displayed, when control is taken, is always the one in the control item set. If not care
is taken, this can be misleading, because the actual name in the drive may be quite something
else. Thus changing of the control item set is discouraged.
See Also: Control Item Set submenu
Drive Menu
Drive Panel toolbar

2. Opening a Parameter File

Many operations require that you have a parameter file open. There can be most one parameter file
open. Thus, if you already have a parameter file open, you have to close it first before opening a new
one.
Note that it is not required that DriveWindow is connected to an OPC Server, when you open a
parameter file.
Note that opening a parameter file does not prevent using the file in other applications.
Restoring a workspace first closes the currently open parameter file, and then opens the parameter
file, which was open at workspace save time, if the file exists.
If you do not have DriveWindow running, you can start DriveWindow by double clicking the name of a
parameter file in NT Explorer (for example). DriveWindow starts with the parameter file open.

To open a parameter file within DriveWindow:

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When the Open dialog box is displayed:

• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the parameter file resides
• Click the parameter file you want to open
• Click Open

Note! You can also enter the name of the parameter file into File name, with or without a directory
path.
Note! You can limit the filenames displayed by entering a wildcard construct into File name and then
clicking Open.
If the file could be opened, it will be shown above all drives at in the browse tree pane.

If there is a problem in opening, you are informed about it. After clicking the OK button in the message,
the open dialog is shown again.

3. Closing a Parameter File

When you do not need a parameter file any more, you can close it. Also, you cannot open another
parameter file before closing the currently open one.
Note that disconnecting the OPC Server, which happens also internally during some operations, closes
the parameter file, too. Closing DriveWindow and restoring a workspace also close the currently open
parameter file.
There are two ways to close the parameter file. The first one is using the Parameters submenu.

The other one is executing delete when focus is in the browse tree pane and the parameter file root is
selected.

In addition to click the delete button in the standard toolbar, delete can be invoked also by pressing the
Del key or using the Edit menu.

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If you have made any changes into the parameter file, you are requested, whether to save the changes
or not.

If you click Yes, a parameter save sequence is started as if you had selected Save As from the
Parameters submenu.
See Also: Parameters Submenu
Save As Dialog

4. Browsing Parameters and Signals

To find parameters and signals of interest you use the browse tree pane. Note that browsing an open
parameter file is similar to browsing a drive.
The parameters and signals are grouped under sub-branches. There can be several levels of sub-
branches.
When a sub-branch is selected (by clicking it), the parameters and signals belonging to the sub-branch
(if any) are displayed in the item list pane. Note that unlocked items in the item list pane are removed
from the pane when selection in the browse tree pane is changed.

Because of the limited size of the browse tree pane, it is possible that the root of the selected sub-
branch is not visible in the pane. However, the root of the selected branch or sub-branch is always
shown within parentheses in the title bar.

A branch or sub-branch can be expanded and collapsed by double clicking it or clicking the plus- or
minus-sign in front of it.

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Sub-branches and items available depend on drive. Typically, a drive has the following first level sub-
brances:
• Application consists of drive application program related items for expert use. Only the items
under the sub-branch Properties may interest you.
• Control contains drive control related items. You normally use the drive panel or the Drive
menu instead of using these items directly.
• Data logger or Data logger 1 and Data logger 2 contain datalogger related items. You
normally use the datalogger settings in the trend settings pane or the Datalogger menu
instead of using these items directly. Only if you want to put uploaded logged values
numerically into the clipboard, you may use the Log n items under the Log sub-branch.
• Event logger, although it exists, is currently not used by most of the drives. It is similar to the
fault logger, except there is no control to clear it.
• Fault logger contains items, each of which is a slot in the drive fault logger. Log 00 is the
newest fault. When a new fault happens, all faults are shifted upwards, and the new fault is
put into Log 00. Note that if item values are cached (see Desktop Preferences), the faults
shown in the item list pane can be old until you manually update them or they are on-line. In
this case, selecting fault logger does not automatically upload the latest values but uses the
cached values instead.
Value of an item is a string describing the fault. If there is no fault in a fault logger slot, the
string is empty.
There is also a write-only item called Clear for clearing the fault logger. However, you normally
use a button in the drive panel or a command in the Drive menu the do the clearing.
• Memory consists of drive RAM and FPROM related items for expert use.
• Parameters consist of sub-branches of drive parameter groups, which contains drive
parameters and signals as items. This part of the browse tree is probably the one, with which
you will work most.
Note that passcode protected parameter groups are not shown (except in some transitional,
passcode change situations).
• Properties contain read-only items, which describe properties of the drive.
• Status consists of read-only items, which show the drive status. The status is also encoded in
the icon shown in front of the drive in the browse tree pane, if drive status display is on-line
(see Status Refresh command).
Value quality is shown as <Bad> in case the item has never been uploaded.
Note that because all item values are cached, the values shown in the item list pane can be
old until you manually update them or they are on-line. Selecting status does not automatically
upload the latest values but uses the cached values instead.

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A parameter file contains fewer sub-branches:

• Application consists of drive application program related items to be used in checking during
parameter download. There is only the Properties sub-branch included, so it is more limited
than Properties in a drive.
• Parameters consist of sub-branches of drive parameter groups, which contains drive
parameters and signals as items. You can remove the sub-branch or any of the groups under
it in an open parameter file.
Note that passcode protected parameter groups, which are possibly needed during download,
are shown with artificial names.
• Properties contain read-only items, which describe properties of the drive. They are used in
checking during parameter download. There are no sub-branches included, so it is more
limited than Properties in a drive.
See Also: What are Parameters and Signals
What is Parameter File
Browse Tree Pane
Item List Pane

4.1 Browsing with Passcode Changes

Parameter groups within drive can be passcode protected. In order to be able to browse them, you
have to enter a proper value into a passcode parameter.

A drive may accept several different passcode values, which remove protection of different drive
parameter groups. The actual passcode values depend on drive type. The passcode shown here is
just an example, not a real passcode value. A drive may also have other parameters, which control
protection of the parameter groups.

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Note that removing protection of drive groups affect also to saving of parameters of a drive.
Parameters, which are saved, are in parameter groups, which are not under passcode protection. In
addition parameters required during download, Application Properties, and drive Properties without
sub-branches, are saved.

4.1.1 Unhiding

To get the now non-protected parameter groups visible in the browse tree pane:
• Collapse the parameter sub-branch by double-clicking Parameters, or by clicking the minus
sign in front of it.
• Expand by double-clicking the parameter sub-branch. Note that clicking the plus sign is not
enough. You have to expand by double-clicking to get the new groups visible.

4.1.2 Hiding

The procedure to protect again the drive parameter groups, which you unprotected, depends on the
type of the drive.

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If you still have a parameter group, which is now protected, visible in the browse tree pane, and you
select it, your PC beeps. Also, the items belonging to the parameter group are not shown in the item
list pane.

Note that if you have locked items, which are now protected, they are still fully functional in the item list
pane.
Hiding the now protected parameter groups in the browse tree pane is similar to unhiding:
• Collapse the parameter sub-branch by double-clicking Parameters, or by clicking the minus
sign in front of it.
• Expand by double-clicking the parameter sub-branch. Note that clicking the plus sign is not
enough. You have to expand by double-clicking to get the new groups visible.

5. Viewing Parameters and Signals

Parameters and signals are shown in the item list pane.

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In addition or instead of a value, the value field may contain other information:
1. If the item is read-protected, instead of the value, <Read-protected> is shown.
2. If quality of a value is bad, instead of the value, <Bad> is shown. Quality can be bad, if there is
a communication failure or the drive is down, or the value is read from cache, but has never
read from the drive.
3. If the quality of a value is uncertain, in addition of the value, (uncertain) is shown. Quality can
be uncertain, if the value has written to the drive, but not (yet) read back. The written value is
then shown, but the quality is uncertain. The OPC Server may set quality to uncertain in case
it is not possible to read some properties from a drive, but OPC Server has guessed the value
of the property.
4. If the quality of a value is good, the quality is not shown.
Note that when control of a drive has been taken, the OPC Server frequently writes to Control.Local to
keep a watchdog in the drive alive. The internal logic within the OPC Server is such that it causes the
qualities of Control.Local and Status.Local be mostly uncertain, while control is taken.
There can be the following types of values:
3. Boolean values are shown as ON or OFF
4. Real values always use period as decimal symbol, regardless of regional settings, when
shown in the item list pane. Exported real values use the decimal symbol defined in regional
settings, however.
5. Signed integer values are displayed in decimal.
6 Strings.
7. Enumerated values. If the value is within range defined for the set of the enumeration strings
in the drive, the string corresponding the value is shown. If the value is not within the range,
the value is shown as a decimal integer. The enumerated value can also be of Boolean type,
in which case the normally shown ON and OFF are replaced by strings specified in the drive.
Note that some drives may contain some enumerated type of values with huge amount of
enumeration strings. If the amount of strings exceeds the limits of the DDCS protocol, such
values are shown as decimal integers.
8. Unsigned integer values are displayed in hexadecimal with lower case h appended.
By changing display format of the selected items or by changing desktop preferences you are able to
see values also in the following formats:
9. Operator panel binary format, which consists of 7-8 binary digits followed by lower case b.
a. Binary format, which consist of 8-32 binary digits in 4 digit groups followed by lower case b.
The groups are separated from each other and the appended b by a space.
b. Fixed point format with user selectable number of decimals (0-8).
c. Exponent format with user selectable number of decimals (0-8).
d. Parameter pointer for adaptive programming. It consists of sign (+ or -), group (000-255),
index (000-255), and bit number (00-31). Fields are separated from each other by a period.
e. Constant for adaptive programming. It consists of upper case C followed by period, space,
and the value of the constant (integer -32768...32767).

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To get the parameters and signals of interest into the pane, you browse in the browse tree pane.
Note that viewing items in an open parameter file is similar to viewing a drive.
You can select (and unselect) items in the item list pane by clicking them, optionally with Shift or Ctrl
key down. Selecting all of the items can be done using the keyboard: when the item list pane has
focus, press Home and then Shift+End.
When you are viewing parameters and signals in the item list pane, you often do the following
operations:
• Lock and unlock items in the pane.
• Delete items from the desktop.
• Update item values.
• Put items on-line and off-line.
• Copy items to the clipboard.
• Sometimes add items to the desktop.
See Also: What are Parameters and Signals
What is Parameter File
Browse Tree Pane
Item List Pane
Changing Display Format of Item Values
Desktop Preferences
Viewing and Editing Saved Parameters

5.1 Changing Display Format of Item Values

Normally, values of items in the item list pane are displayed in the format system selected in desktop
preferences, i.e., either in classic DriveWindow format or operator panel format. Note that operator
panel format is available in new drive models only.
However, a user can temporarily change display format of selected items. The changed format
overrides any selection made in desktop preferences, but is valid only as long as the item stays visible
in the item list pane. If the item is removed from the pane and then restored by selection changes in
the browse tree pane, for example, the normal mechanism for displaying a value is used. The currently
changed formats are saved and restored with a workspace, however.

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To change display format of item values in the item list pane:

• Select items, display format of which you want to change. Use Ctrl and Shift keys, if needed,
in selection.
• While input focus is still in the item list pane, either press F3 key on the keyboard, or select
the Change Display Format command in the View menu.

The Change Display Format dialog box is displayed.

Select a format and number of decimals (if applicable) and click OK.

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Now the values of the selected items in the item list pane are displayed in the new format.

Note that only the display formats of the values change. The values remain the same. Updating a value
(or if an item is on-line) of course changes the value, but it is then displayed in the changed format as
long as the item stays in the item list pane.
Note also that if a value cannot be displayed in the selected format, it is displayed in classic
DriveWindow format. However, the format selected in desktop preferences is overridden also in this
case.
The possible display format selections are:
1. The classic DriveWindow format. Select this in case operator panel format is selected in
desktop preferences, but you want to see temporarily a value in the classic DriveWindow
format.
2. Fixed point format. Select this and enter number of decimal digits in case you want to see
more decimal digits, for example.
3. Exponent format. Select this and enter number of decimal digits in case a value is not zero
but its absolute value is very small (<1E-3) or very big (>1E6).
4 Decimal integer format.
5. Hexadecimal format.
6. Binary format.
7. Adaptive programming format. Select this in case the drive does not have operator panel
format available, but you know that the selected items are handled as adaptive programming
values in the drive.
8. The operator panel format. Select this in case operator panel format is not selected in desktop
preferences, but you want to see temporarily a value in the operator panel format, and the
drive supports it, too.

5.2 Locking and Unlocking Items

Because unlocked items in the item list pane are removed from the pane when selection in the browse
tree pane is changed, you often lock the interesting items into the item list pane.
Note that you can lock also items belonging to an open parameter file. Monitored items are
automatically locked with similar mechanism. If you lock or unlock monitored items, their locking status
is shown just when they are removed from the monitor.
To lock/unlock items in the item list pane:
• Select items, locking status of which you want to change.
• Either click the lock/unlock items button in the standard toolbar, or select the Lock/Unlock
Items command in the Desktop menu.

The icons in front of the selected items change to show the new locking status.

Now the locked items stay in the item list pane even if you change selection in the browse tree pane.

5.3 Deleting Items from the Desktop

If the item list pane becomes crowded, you may want to delete some of the items shown from the
desktop.

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Note that selection change in the browse tree pane removes all unlocked items from the item list pane,
too.
Deleting items removes all the selected items from the item list pane, except the monitored ones. Note
that non-monitored, locked items are removed, too.
Note that deleting items belonging to an open parameter file are deleted only from the desktop, not
from the file. A parameter group can be deleted from the browse tree pane, however, which also
deletes it from the open parameter file.
To remove items in the item list pane:
• Select items, which you want to remove fro the item list pane.
• Either click the delete or cut items button in the standard toolbar, select the Delete or Cut
command in the Edit menu, or press the Del or Ctrl+X key.

Note! Because the delete operation is common for many panes, you must have focus in the item list
pane, otherwise deletion may delete something else..
The selected items are removed from the desktop. If you used cut instead of delete, the items are first
copied to the clipboard and then deleted.

5.4 Updating Item Values

If you have items in the item list pane, which are not on-line, and you have selected to use cached item
values in Desktop Preferences, items show a cached value. It means that the value shown can be very
old. Note also that changing selection in the browse tree pane, which brings up items into the item list
pane, does not read the values from the drive in this case, but shows the cached values.
Of course you can use another Desktop Preferences setting or put items on-line, so that their values
are constantly updated. However, these methods may cause too heavy communication load. Also you
may have signals, values of which change quite infrequently.
You have also the option to update selected items manually. Note that it is not possible to update items
belonging to an open parameter file.

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To update items in the item list pane:

• Select items, values of which you want to update.
• Either click the update items button in the standard toolbar, or select the Update Items
command in the Desktop menu.

The values of the selected items are read from the drives, cached, and updated in item list pane.

5.4.1 Hint

If you want to update all items in the item list pane (or all items after and including an item), select by
clicking the first item. Press then the Shift+End key to include the items after the selected one in the
selection. Finally, click the update items button in the standard toolbar, for example.
If you want to unselect after update, click outside the Name column in the item list pane.
See Also: Viewing Parameters and Signals
Desktop Menu
Desktop Preferences

5.5 Putting Items On-line and Off-line

Many of the signals in the item list pane are such that their values change frequently in the drives. You
may want to see the values changed also in the item list pane, so you want to put them on-line. If there
is too much communication load, you may want to put some on-line items off-line.
Note that Desktop Preferences contain a selection, which automatically puts all added items on-line in
the item list pane.
Note that also monitored items can be put on-line, but it is not possible to put on-line items belonging to
an open parameter file.

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To change the on-line status of items in the item list pane:

• Select items, on-line status of which you want to change.
• Either click the activate/deactivate items button in the standard toolbar, or select the Put Items
On-line/Off-line command in the Desktop menu.

Colour of the icons in front of the selected items and background of the values changes to show the
new on-line status.

Items, which are on line, have yellow background in their values. The icons of on-line items are yellow,
too, except if the item is also monitored. Icon of a monitored item is the same, whether the item is on-
line or off-line.
Note that putting an item on-line does not lock it into the item list pane. You have to do the locking
separately.
See Also: Viewing Parameters and Signals
Desktop Menu
Desktop Preferences

5.6 Copying Items to the Clipboard

Occasionally you may want to paste items into another application. To do so, you have to copy the
items into the clipboard first.

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To copy items in the item list pane to the clipboard:

• Select items, which you want to copy or cut from the item list pane.
• Either click the copy values or cut items button in the standard toolbar, select the Copy or Cut
command in the Edit menu, or press the Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X key.

The selected items are copied to the clipboard and, if you executed cut, removed from the desktop. In
the clipboard, the items are in text format, one item in a line, fields of an item separated by tabs. If the
value is a vector (dataloggers), the elements of the value are separated by tabs, too.
Note that the order of fields is changed so that the value is the rightmost field.
Note also that the decimal symbol is taken from the regional setting of your PC, and may not be a
period.
Because of the so called tab separated format used, it is easy to paste the items into Word or Excel,
for example. In Excel, the fields go automatically into separate cells. In Word you can make a table of
the pasted items with a few clicks (select all pasted, Convert Text to Table and, optionally, Borders and
Shading).

5.7 Adding Items to the Desktop

Some times you may encounter a situation, where you need to view a value of an item, which is not
found by browsing. Also, for documentation purposes, you may want to have an item in the item list
pane with a descriptive name of your own, even if the item can be found by browsing, and put on the
desktop.
If the item is not found by browsing, you have to know its OPC address. It is not possible to put non-
existing items into the item list pane.

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Note that although you can use an item in an open parameter file as a template, the added item must
be known by the OPC Server and thus have a valid OPC address.
Optionally, you can use an item already in the item list pane as a template, which you then edit.
To use an item as a template, select a single item in the item list pane.
Anyway, click the add item button in the standard toolbar, select the Add New Item command in the
Desktop menu, or press the Ctrl+A key.

An Add Item to Desktop dialog box is presented. If you had an item selected to be used as a template,
both edit fields already have values, which you can edit.

If you did not have an item selected to be used as a template (or had multiple selections),
DriveWindow suggests the same data that you entered last time, when you added an item to the
desktop.

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Anyway, after you have a descriptive name (of your own) in the Name edit field, and a proper OPC
address in the other edit field, you can click the OK button (or Cancel, if you want to cancel the
operation). Note that the descriptive name that you give, needs not to be unique.

If the OPC address you gave is correct and the item exists, it is added into the item list pane. Note that
it is not locked and not on-line, even if the template had been locked and/or on-line.

If the OPC address is wrong or the item does not exist, your PC beeps when you click OK, and the Add
Item to Desktop dialog box stays.
Note that Set Variable in the Monitor menu and in the Datalogger menu also, in addition to setting the
item to be monitored or logged, adds the item to the desktop. Note that in case of a datalogger, the
descriptive name is not put into the datalogger settings, but only into the item list pane.
Note also that because adding an item to the item list pane changes the pane, all item values are
updated. How this is done, depends on settings of Desktop Preferences.
See Also: Viewing Parameters and Signals
Desktop Menu
Setting and Removing Monitored Variables
Setting and Removing Datalogger Variables

6. Changing the Control Item Set

If you want to restore the default control item set, select Restore Defaults command in the Control Item
Set submenu of the Desktop menu.

The default control item set consists of the following items:

1)
Name OPC Address Note
Last fault FL.00.Description Read only

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Reference Control.Reference Write only

Reference (actual) Status.Reference Read only
1)
Always without channel and node
Note that the only way to see the current control item set is to take control of some drive while the item
list pane is empty. The current control item set consists of the items, which appear into the item list
pane.
Changing of the control item set always means setting all of it. There is no command to add or remove
a single item.
Note that control item set is restored to the defaults, when you restart DriveWindow. You have to use a
workspace to save and restore your non-default control item set.
Usually you want to make only a few changes to the control item set. An easy way to do it is as follows:
• If you have control of some drive taken, release control.
• Browse and lock the items, which you want to add to the control item set.
• Take control of some drive, so that the items of the current control item set are added into the
item list pane, too.
• Select the items that will form the new control item set. Do the selection by keeping the Ctrl
key down while clicking the items.
• Execute the Selected Items command in Control Item Set submenu of the Desktop menu.

Note! The name displayed, when control is taken, is always the one in the control item set. If not care
is taken, this can be misleading, because the actual name in the drive may be quite something
else. Thus changing of the control item set is discouraged.
See Also: What is Control Item Set
Control Item Set submenu
Drive Menu
Drive Panel toolbar
Desktop Menu

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7. Changing Parameters
Parameters are items, which are not write-protected, and can thus be changed.
While viewing an item in the item list pane, you cannot tell directly, whether it is write-protected or not.
If you select a single item in the item list pane, and the change value button in the standard toolbar is
disabled (grayed), the item is write-protected, i.e., it is a signal.

Also the Change Item Value command in the Desktop menu is disabled (grayed), when a single, write-
protected item is selected in the item list pane.

You can also check, whether an item is write-protected or not by double-clicking it in the item list pane.
If your PC beeps, it is write-protected and cannot be changed.
Note that a drive can have parameters, which are used to prevent changing of other parameters. If
such a change is prevented, you do not get any error message about changing such a value, but the
value in the drive just does not change.
Note that changing an item in an open parameter file is similar to changing an item in a drive. Changes
made into an open parameter file are not saved until Save As command in the Parameters submenu of
the File menu is executed. If there are unsaved changes in an open parameter file when you close the
file, you are requested, whether to save the changes or not.
You can select (and unselect) items in the item list pane by clicking them, optionally with Shift or Ctrl
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To change value of an item in the item list pane, double-click the item. There are also other ways to
start the value change:
• Select the item, value of which you want to change.
• Either click the change value button in the standard toolbar, or select the Change Item Value
command in the Desktop menu.

A dialog box that has the descriptive name of the item in its title bar is presented. The type of the dialog
box, and how to handle it, depends on the value type of the item. Note that if the item is not read-
protected, the current value of the item is shown in the edit field. It is also selected, so that if you start
typing, the displayed value is immediately overwritten.
A value type of string, or a numerical value without any limit information, presents a simple dialog box:

If the item is used by DriveOPC to open a file (see Using Symbol Tables), the dialog box is similar, but
has an additional browse button:

A numerical value with limit information presents a dialog box, which also shows the limits:

Note that the limits are not used by DriveWindow but the drive. It depends on the drive, whether it
rejects a value exceeding the limits, actually limits the value, or just accepts it.

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Entering a numerical value does not depend on the type of the value. Any numerical type can be
entered a one of the following:
• Decimal integer, optionally signed, 123, for example.
• Hexadecimal integer preceded by 0x, 0x123A, for example, or followed by letter h, 123Ah, for
example. Accepts both upper and lower case letters (A..F, H, X, a..f, h, x).
• Binary integer followed by letter b, 1001 0001 b, for example. Accepts both upper and lower
case letters (B, b) and can contain spaces.
• Parameter pointer for adaptive programming, +.1.4.0, for example. It consists of sign (+ or -),
group (0-255), index (0-255), and bit number (0-31). Fields are separated from each other by
a period. Negative sign means inversion.
• Constant for adaptive programming, C. 123, for example. It consists of letter C followed by
period and the value of the constant. Accepts both upper and lower case letters (C, c). The
value can be preceded by spaces. The value is an integer between -32768...32767. It can be
entered as decimal, hexadecimal, or binary number as presented above.
• Optionally signed real number ending with optional exponent, which is preceded by E or e.
The exponent can be signed. Note that the decimal symbol is period regardless the regional
settings. Examples: 1.2, -1.23E-3, 1e3.
The value entered is converted to the value type of the item. Real numbers are rounded to integers, if
needed.
Note! Unsigned integers, which are shown as hexadecimal numbers, always require the 0x prefix or
letter h postfix, if you want to enter them in hexadecimal. Thus, entering 123A is an error.
Entering 123 is accepted, but will show 7B instead of 123, because it is regarded as decimal,
not hexadecimal. You should enter 0x123 or 123h, if you want 123h (hexadecimal) to be shown.
A Boolean value or an enumerated value presents a dialog box with a drop-down list.

Note that if the current value is out of bounds, the edit field is shown empty.
To get the list of all acceptable values dropped, click the down arrow to the right of the edit field. There
may also be a scrollbar in the drop-down list, with which you can scroll through all the alternatives.

To select an alternative, click it. You can type you selection into the edit field, too, as far as you spell it
exactly as it is shown in the drop-down list.

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Note that DriveWindow allows you to select only among the presented alternatives. It is not possible to
change an enumerated parameter to have a value out of bounds in DriveWindow. An item can initially
have such a value in a drive, however.
Whatever kind of dialog box was shown, click the OK button, when you have the new value in the edit
field. You can also click the Cancel button, if you want to cancel the operation.
When you click the OK button, the value is checked either by DriveWindow, the OPC Server, or the
drive. If any errors are found, even communication errors, you are informed about it:

Clicking the OK button brings back the dialog box with the value you entered into the edit field. Now
you can correct your value and try again, or cancel the operation.

If the new value was accepted by the drive, and the item is readable, the value is read back from the
drive and updated in the item list pane, even if the item is not on-line. Note that the value may not be
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Note that the drive may change the value, but not always fast enough. So the value shown in the item
list pane may be the one actually written, or the value set by the drive. If you want to be sure about the
value actually in the drive and the item is off-line, update the item after you have changed it.

Note that there may be some parameters in a drive, which do not care about the value written, but the
write operation itself is meaningful. Such parameters are usually Boolean, write-only items.

8. How to Save Parameters

With DriveWindow it is possible to save user and ID run result parameters of a drive into a file. The
saved parameters can be edited, if required.
Note that for safety reasons you cannot save parameters of any drive while control of some drive is
taken. The command in the menu is disabled (grayed).
You can use the saved parameters in:
• Restoring user and/or ID run result parameters (after a system software version upgrade, for
example).
• Comparing with current parameters in a drive or with another parameter file.
• Exporting the same way as parameters of a drive are exported.

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Note that in addition of read/write parameters, information about signals (read-only) and write-only
parameters are saved, too.
Not all parameters of a drive are saved, however. In addition of groups, which are not under passcode
protection at save time, there are also parameters required during download, Application Properties,
and drive Properties without sub-branches.
Note that you need not to decide, whether you need the saved parameters to restore user or ID run
result parameters. You make the decision at restoring time.
To save parameters of a drive, select the drive in the browse tree pane and then select the Save As
command in the Parameters submenu.

Note that to select a drive or an open parameter file, it is not necessary to select its root, selection of
any of its sub-branches will do.
Saving of an open parameter file is similar to saving parameters of a drive. Instead of selecting a drive
in the browse tree pane, you select the open parameter file.

A Save As dialog box is displayed.

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8.1.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:

• From Save in, browse into the drive and directory, into which you want to save the parameters
• Enter the name of the parameter file into File name or, if you want to replace an existing file,
click the filename you want to replace
• Click Save and a file comment is requested

If the file already exists, confirmation to replace it asked when you click Save.

8.1.2 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed:

There is a time stamp in the edit field as a default comment. It is selected, which means that if you just
start typing, it is replaced by your comment.
• Enter, add, edit, or accept the comment in the edit field
• Click OK, and saving starts

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8.1.3 While the parameters are uploaded

If you are saving parameters of a drive, uploading of them takes for a while. The cursor turns to hour-
glass and the status bar informs you about uploading.

8.1.4 Name of the saved open parameter file changes

If you are saving parameters of an open parameter file using another name, the name of the file shown
in the browse tree pane is changed to the new name you used in saving.

8.2 Viewing and Editing Saved Parameters

Viewing and changing items in an open parameter file is similar to viewing and changing items of a
drive.
There are differences, however:
• You cannot change a write-only parameter in an open parameter file.
• Checking of the changed values in an open parameter file is minimal. No limiting is done, for
example. The value is checked at download time by the drive. So changing values in a
parameter file is discouraged.
• There is no passcode protection in an open parameter file. All items saved into the parameter
file are also shown.
• You can delete a parameter group or even the Parameters sub-branch from an open
parameter file.
• You can edit the comment in an open parameter file, too. There is no such thing as a
comment in a drive.
• The changes made into an open parameter file are not saved automatically. You have to ask
saving of them explicitly.
• Saving of unsaved changes is also requested, when you close the open parameter file.
To be able to view and edit a parameter file, you must first open it.

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When you have a parameter file open, you can view and change items within it almost as if it was a
drive.
We recommend that you always click Cancel in the value change dialog box, if you did not actually
change the value. Otherwise, the open parameter file may be marked changed (because of rounding),
and a save request is made, when the file is closed.
We recommend that you close the open parameter file when you do not need it any more.

8.2.1 Viewing and Editing the Comment

You can also view and edit the comment within the open parameter file by selecting Comment from the
Parameters submenu.

A File Comment dialog box is presented. It shows the comment in its edit field. The comment text is
selected, which means that if you just start typing, the previous text is replaced by your new comment.

Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
When you are done with editing, click the OK button. Click the Cancel button, if you do not want to
change the comment.

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8.2.2 Deleting Parameter Groups

To delete a parameter group or the total Parameters sub-branch from an open parameter file, select
the group (or Parameters), which you want to delete, in the browse tree pane. While focus is still in the
browse tree pane, click the delete button in the standard toolbar.

Instead of clicking the delete button in the standard toolbar, delete can be invoked also by pressing the
Del key or using the Edit menu.

The selected parameter group or the Parameters sub-branch disappears from the browse tree pane.
The change is saved when you ask saving of the open parameter file. Saving of unsaved changes is
also requested, when the parameter file is closed.

Note that if you have the parameter file root selected, delete is same as closing the open parameter
file. If focus is not in the browse tree pane, action of the delete depends on the pane, which has the
focus, but no parameter group or the Parameters sub-branch is deleted.

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9. How to Restore Parameters

You can restore user and/or ID run result parameters of a drive from a saved parameter file.
Note that for safety reasons you cannot restore parameters of any drive while control of some drive is
taken. The command in the menu is disabled (grayed).
Note that since version 2.11 DriveWindow tries to restore also parameters, type of which were read-
only when uploaded. If such a parameter is still read-only in the drive when downloaded, the value is
not changed.
Note also that unless specially specified for the kind of drive in question, user parameters of string type
are not restored.
Note! Parameter download causes heavy DDCS communication traffic. To avoid potential failures, we
recommend that you stop all on-line activity (status refresh, monitoring, no items on-line, control
not taken) in DriveWindow when you download parameters.
It is good practice to do parameter comparison after restoring parameters to verify that restoring really
was successful.
If you have a parameter file open, parameters are restored from it. Otherwise the parameter file to be
used is requested.

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9.1.1 Restoring from an Open Parameter File

To restore the parameters from open parameter file:

• Make sure, you have a full backup of the drive(s) available. The backup may be required, if
something goes wrong, when restoring the parameters.
• If drive contains application macros, the selected macro must be the same in the file and in
the drive.
• If any of the parameters is write protected by a parameter lock, open the lock and reconnect
DriveWindow.
• Select (click) the drive, parameters of which you want to restore, in the browse tree pane.
• Select the Download command in the Parameters submenu (or press Ctrl+D).

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9.1.2 Restoring from a Requested Parameter File

To restore the parameters from a parameter file in case there is no parameter file open:
• Make sure, you have a full backup of the drive(s) available. The backup may be required, if
something goes wrong, when restoring the parameters.
• If drive contains application macros, verify that the selected macro is the same in the file and
in the drive.
• If any of the parameters is write protected by a parameter lock, open the lock and reconnect
DriveWindow.
• Select (click) the drive, parameters of which you want to restore, in the browse tree pane.
• Select the Download command in the Parameters submenu (or press Ctrl+D).
• A Download dialog box similar to an Open dialog box is shown. Using the dialog box, select
the parameter file containing parameters to be restored.

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9.1.3 Version Check

DriveWindow first checks version compatibility. If any differences are found in Properties, Application
Properties, or in some, drive kind dependent parameters, a message box is presented. It warns you
about consequences of version incompatibilities and allows you to cancel downloading by answering
No.

9.1.4 Restore Type Selection

If the versions match, or if you decided to proceed with version conflicts, a Select Restore Type dialog
box is presented.
Now it is time to decide, whether you want to download user parameters, ID run result parameters, or
both. You do the selection by clicking the proper check fields in the dialog box

Note that if the parameter file does not contain all ID run result parameters (you have possibly deleted
some of them), the corresponding check field is disabled (grayed).
When you have done your selection, click the OK button. You have also the option to cancel
downloading by clicking the Cancel button. Note that the OK button does not accept mouse clicks if
neither of the check fields is selected.

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9.1.5 Confirmation

Finally, a confirmation is requested.

Click Yes to continue, click No to cancel downloading.

9.1.6 Downloading

Downloading of the parameters takes for a while. The cursor turns to hour-glass and the status bar
informs you about downloading.

Immediately after parameters have been downloaded, the drive is requested to force them into the
FLASH memory. This guarantees that the downloaded parameters persist even if the drive is promptly
restarted. The cursor stays turned to hour-glass and the status bar informs you about writing to FLASH
memory.

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9.1.7 Restarting the Drive

When the downloading has been done successfully, you are asked, whether to restart the drive or not.
Restarting a drive is usually not needed in case you restored only the user parameters. If ID run result
parameters were restored, restarting of the drive is usually recommended. However, this can be drive
dependent, so consult the drive documentation.

Note! Restarting a drive does an internal disconnecting and reconnecting of the OPC Server. This
means that monitor and dataloggers are cleared, all items are removed from the item list pane,
the parameter file is closed, browse tree pane is collapsed, etc.
Restarting of the drive takes for a while. The cursor turns to hour-glass and the status bar informs you
about restarting.

Your DDCS network may be configured against recommendations and has a drive at node address
one. Node address one is reserved for spare parts.
In this case, if you are restoring parameters of a drive at another node, restarting of the drive cannot be
done. You will get, instead of requesting restarting of the drive, a message box telling about this.

If you want to restart the drive in such a case, we recommend that you either exit from DriveWindow,
or disconnect the drive at node address one, or the drive to be restarted, from the DDCS network.
Then restart the drive manually by power off/on.

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9.1.8 How Errors are Shown

If any errors (communication errors, for example) are encountered during the parameter download, a
message box containing a list of errors is presented.

After you have acknowledged by clicking the OK button, a warning is shown, too.

If your parameter file does not contain any parameters (you have deleted the Parameters sub-branch,
for example), you get a message box after the Select Restore Type dialog box.

If the node address changes, when DriveWindow restarts the drive, you will probably get an error
message, which tells you that restarting failed.

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If, after you click the OK button, the drive re-appears in the browse tree pane at the new node address,
you may ignore the message. It is shown, because DriveWindow does not know about the node
address change before re-connecting the OPC Server. Thus it tries to verify success of restarting from
the wrong node address.
See Also: What are Parameters and Signals
What is Parameter File
How to Save Parameters
Opening a Parameter File
Closing a Parameter File

10. How to Compare Parameters

It is possible to compare restorable parameters, read/write parameters, Properties, and Application
Properties in a parameter file with the parameters in a drive or in another parameter file.
Note that for safety reasons you cannot compare parameters of any drive while control of some drive is
taken. The command in the menu is disabled (grayed) in this case when a drive is selected in the
browse tree pane.
Note that signals are not compared, unless they actually are write protected restorable parameters.
If you have a parameter file open, parameters in it are compared with parameters in the selected drive.
Otherwise, and also in case you want to compare two parameter files, the parameter file to be used is
requested.

10.1.1 Comparing a Drive with the Open Parameter File

To compare the parameters in an open parameter file with parameters in a drive:

• Select (click) the drive in the browse tree pane.
• Select the Compare command in the Parameters submenu.

DriveWindow uploads the required parameters from the drive. Uploading of them takes for a while. The
cursor turns to hour-glass and the status bar informs you about uploading.

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10.1.2 Comparing a Drive with a Requested Parameter File

To compare the parameters in a parameter file with parameters in a drive in case there is no
parameter file open:
• Select (click) the drive in the browse tree pane.
• Select the Compare command in the Parameters submenu.
• A Compare dialog box similar to an Open dialog box is shown. Using the dialog box, select
the parameter file containing parameters to be compared with the parameters in the drive.

DriveWindow uploads the required parameters from the drive. Uploading of them takes for a while. The
cursor turns to hour-glass and the status bar informs you about uploading.

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10.1.3 Comparing two Parameter Files

To compare the parameters in a parameter file with parameters in an open parameter file:
• Open the parameter file (unless it is already open).
• Select (click) the open parameter file in the browse tree pane.
• Select the Compare command in the Parameters submenu.
• A Compare dialog box similar to an Open dialog box is shown. Using the dialog box, select
the parameter file containing parameters to be compared with the parameters in the open
parameter file.

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10.1.4 Comparison Results

The comparison results are presented in a Parameter Comparison dialog box. Note that parameters,
which exist in the drive but not in the parameter file, are excluded from comparison.

If there are no differences, it is reported in the Note column on the first line.

10.1.5 Exporting

If you want to export the parameter comparison results into a file, click the Export button at the lower
right corner, and the comparison results are exported to a file.

10.1.6 Closing

When you are finished with the Parameter Comparison dialog box and want to close it, either click the
Close button at the lower right corner, click the close button in the title bar, or press Alt+F4.

10.1.7 Viewing

If all of the differences cannot be shown, there is a vertical scrollbar at the right side. Use it to scroll the
list, so you can see more differences.

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If there is a long line that cannot be totally shown, there is a horizontal scrollbat at the bottom. Use it to
scroll the list horizontally, so you can see the end of the long lines.

You can also adjust the width of a column, if you wish, by dragging the column separator in the title.

Note that the descriptive name in the Name column is taken from the drive (or from the open
parameter file, if two parameter files are compared), unless the parameter does not exist in the drive
(or in the open parameter file, if two parameter files are compared). If the parameter does not exist in
the drive (or in the open parameter file, if two parameter files are compared), the descriptive name is
taken from the (requested) file.
Note also that the descriptive names are not compared. So, if the values of a parameter are equal, but
the descriptive names are different, no difference is reported about the parameter. Thus you can easily
compare files and drives with different language selection.
Title of the second column shows the name of the drive (or the name of the open parameter file
preceded by text “File: “, if two parameter files are compared).
Title of the third column shows the name of the (requested) file preceded by text “File: “.
The columns contain the parameter value in the drive (or in the open parameter file, if two parameter
files are compared) and in the (requested) file respectively. Note that a period is used as decimal
symbol regardless of the regional settings.
The Note column contains additional information about the difference, such as:
• Does not exist in drive. The parameter in the parameter file does not exist in the drive.
• Does not exist in file (file name). The parameter in the other parameter file does not exist in
the file indicated.
• Datatypes differ. The datatype in the parameter file is not the same as in the drive.
• Enumerations differ. The ranges of enumeration in the parameter file and in the drive are not
the same. It could mean that the number of enumeration strings differs or the enumerations
start from different values. Note that the enumeration strings themselves are not compared.
• Difference less than display format accuracy. The values differ so little that the values shown
are equal in the second and third column.
• Illegal enumerated value. Something went wrong when converting an enumerated value (this
note should never be shown).
• No differences found. This note is presented only, if all compared parameters are equal. It is
then the only message in the dialog box.

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Note that the export file is not exactly equal to the content of the dialog box. The exported values have
much greater accuracy, use the decimal symbol defined in the regional settings, and there should be
no note about difference less than display accuracy.
See Also: What are Parameters and Signals
What is Parameter File
How to Save Parameters
Opening a Parameter File
Closing a Parameter File
How to Export Parameters

11. How to Export Parameters

Exporting of parameters means making them available for other applications.
Note that for safety reasons you cannot export parameters of any drive while control of some drive is
taken. The commands in the menu are disabled (grayed).
The simplest form of exporting of parameters is copying (or cutting) selected items in the item list pane
to the clipboard. You can then paste the copied items into another application, as long as the
application supports pasting of text.
In addition to support copying items to the clipboard, DriveWindow has the capability of exporting
parameters to a file.
The following can be exported to a file:
• Parameters in an open parameter file.
• Parameters in a selected drive.
• Parameters of all drives.
• Parameter differences shown in a Parameter Comparison dialog box.

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Not all parameters and signals of a drive or a parameter file are exported, however. Write-only
parameters and parameters and signals under passcode protection are not exported. About other
items than drive parameters, only Application Properties, and drive Properties without sub-branches
are included. The parameters in an open parameter file, which were under passcode protection during
saving the drive, are not included, either.
The exported file has filename extension TXT. It contains (in ASCII format) information about
parameters and signals in so called tab separated format.
Note that an exported file is not meant for humans to read. Because it is for other applications, the
accuracy of values is very big. Note also that the decimal symbol defined in the regional settings is
used. So, extra care is required in exchanging exported files with other countries.
The tab separated format is understood by many applications, by Word and Excel, for example, and
can be easily imported in such kind of applications.

11.1.1 To export parameters in an open parameter file

In the browse tree pane, select (click) the open parameter file (or a sub-branch within it), then select
the Selected command in the Export submenu.

11.1.2 To export parameters in a drive

In the browse tree pane, select (click) the drive (or a sub-branch within it), then select the Selected
command in the Export submenu.

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11.1.3 To export parameters of all drives

Select the All Drives command in the Export submenu.

Note that even if you have a parameter file open, it is not exported with drives.

11.1.4 To export parameter differences

When you are viewing the differences in a Parameter Comparison dialog box, click the Export button.

11.1.5 When the Export dialog box is displayed:

The dialog boxes shown in different exports differ only by the text shown in the title bar.

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• From Save in, browse into the drive and directory, into which you want to export the
parameters or the differences
• Enter the name of the export file into File name or, if you want to replace an existing file, click
the filename you want to replace
• Click Save and a file comment is requested

If the file already exists, confirmation to replace it asked when you click Save.

11.1.6 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed:

11.1.7 While the parameters are uploaded

If you are exporting parameters of a drive, uploading of them takes for a while. The cursor turns to
hour-glass and the status bar informs you about exporting.

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11.1.8 Example of exported parameters of a drive

Note that content of the exported file is similar, when all of the drives or an open parameter file is
exported.
The file identification tag and the comment are the first two lines.
The name of the drive or the parameter file has an empty line above and below it.
If all drives are exported, they appear in the file sequentially.
The following shows the beginning of the file, when it has been imported to Word, and converted to a
table. Borders have been added, too.

11.1.9 Example of exported parameter differences

The following shows the beginning of the file, when it has been imported to Word, and converted to a
table. Borders have been added, too.

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12. How to Do System Software Version Upgrade

Version upgrade is installing new version of system software into an already commissioned drive so
that re-entering of parameter values is avoided.
Version upgrade is possible only, if the new system software version is compatible with the old one,
i.e., the parameters required to be set during commissioning have the same group and index values,
and their values have the same scaling. If there are just minor differences (new parameters, for
example), upgrading can still be done, but manual adjustment of parameters are required after
upgrading.

12.1.1 Preparing

Although not absolutely necessary, we recommend that you take full backup of all drives to be
upgraded, unless you have them already available. The backup may be required, if something goes
wrong during the upgrade.
However, saving of parameters of all drives to be upgraded, is required.
Depending on the DDCS network configuration and the tool you are going to use to download the new
system software, you may be need to make reconnections in the DDCS network.
• If the download tool is not DriveWindow and it supports only point-to-point connection, you
have to connect the drive to be upgraded directly to you PC.
• If you are going to use DriveWindow in downloading, it may be that your DDCS network has
been configured against recommendations, and has a drive at node address one (node
address one is reserved for spare parts). If you are going to upgrade a drive other than the
one with node address one, either disconnect the drive with node address one from the
network, or power it down (assuming it is behind a branching unit).
• If you are going to use DriveWindow in downloading, and node address on is not in use, no
hardware changes are needed.

12.1.2 Downloading System Software

If you are not using DriveWindow in downloading the new system software, quit DriveWindow.
If you use DriveWindow in downloading (you have a DriveWindow loading package), you should stop
all on-line activity (status refresh, monitoring, no items on-line, control not taken) before downloading
system software.

12.1.3 Restoring Parameters

When system software has been downloaded, the drive is normally found at node address one with all
parameters set to default values.
If you used other tool than DriveWindow in downloading system software, start DriveWindow.

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If drive contains application macros, verify that the selected macro is the same in the saved parameter
file and in the drive. Change it in the drive, if needed.
Download the saved parameters. Whether to download also the ID run result parameters or not,
depends on the level of compatibility of the system software versions.
If the drive originally was at some other node address than one, it will usually be at its original address
just after restarting it. If restarting is not done when DriveWindow is requesting it, is required to re-
identify the network. Re-identifying is done by disconnecting and re-connecting the OPC Server.
If the node address changes, when DriveWindow restarts the drive, you will probably get an error
message, which tells you that restarting failed.

12.1.4 Finishing

We recommend that you take full backup of all drives, which were upgraded, so that replacing a
damaged control board with a spare part is made easy.
Note that instead of creating a new backup package, you have the option to use the old backup
package, and only replace the upgraded drives within it.
See Also: How to Save Parameters
How to Restore Parameters
What are Parameters and Signals
What is Parameter File
What is System Software
What is a Backup Package
What is a Loading Package
How to Backup
How to Download

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13. Desktop Preferences

You can set desktop preferences by selecting Preferences command in the Desktop menu.

The Desktop Preferences dialog box is displayed.

Desktop preferences contain a selection, how to update the values shown in the item list pane, when
the item list pane changes.
The causes of changes are various, but the most common is making a selection change in the browse
tree pane while browsing parameters and signals.
You have to select one of the options:
• The item values are fetched from the OPC Server cache (default option). This option causes
least communication traffic and is recommended, if you are doing fast monitoring, for
example. However, the item values shown can be very old.
• The item values are fetched from drives. This option causes least surprises, because after
changes in the item list pane you always see fresh values. The update command is seldom
needed in this case. Note that also values of locked items are updated.
• Newly added item values are put on-line. This option causes much communication traffic and
we recommend that you use it sparingly. Note that items already in the item list pane (usually
locked items), which you have put off-line, stay off-line. Their values are updated, however, as
in the second option.

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Desktop preferences also allow you to display item values (drive parameters) in the same format as
the operator panel of the drive shows them. The selection also affects the unscaled values shown with
the graph cursor in the trend display pane.
Unfortunately, the operator panel format is only available in very new drives. However, the user can
temporarily override the display format of selected items (see Changing Display Format of Item
Values) or graph cursor values (see Changing Display Format of Graph Cursor Values).
Since version 2.11 of DriveWindow, the changes are shown immediately in the item list pane, when
you click the OK button. The side effect of this is that all shown items may be go on-line or off-line.
Another selection concerns refreshing of the status of the drive displayed as images in the browse tree
pane when status refreshing is on. The options are:
• Only the status image of the selected drive is refreshed. Note that the same image is also
shown in the status bar. Use this option if there is huge number of drives, in which case
refreshing status of all of them could cause too heavy communication load.
• Status images of all drives are refreshed. This is the option normally used.
Note that the status image of the drive, control of which is taken, is always refreshed - both in the
browse tree pane and in the drive panel toolbar - even when status refreshing is off.
Note that although status refresh setting made in desktop preferences is preserved between
DriveWindow sessions, it is also saved and restored with the workspace. However, the value restored
from a workspace file is in effect only while the workspace is open. When you restart DriveWindow, the
last status refresh setting that you made in desktop preferences is effective again.
See Also: What are Preferences
Changing Display Format of Item Values
Changing Display Format of Graph Cursor Values
Viewing Status of Drives

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Contents
1. Controlling by Raw Control Items ..............................................................................................5-2

2. Taking and Releasing Control ....................................................................................................5-3

2.1 Take Control ...........................................................................................................................5-4
2.1.1 Losing control ..................................................................................................................5-5
2.1.2 Disabled operations .........................................................................................................5-6
2.2 Release Control ......................................................................................................................5-6
2.2.1 Automatic release of control ............................................................................................5-7

3. Clearing Faultlogger ....................................................................................................................5-8

4. Commanding a Drive ...................................................................................................................5-9

4.1.1 Setting the reference .....................................................................................................5-10
4.1.2 Drive panel toolbar.........................................................................................................5-10
4.1.3 Drive menu ....................................................................................................................5-11
4.1.4 Shortcut keys .................................................................................................................5-11

5. How to Use Step Function ........................................................................................................5-12

5.1 Step Settings.........................................................................................................................5-12
5.2 Using Step ............................................................................................................................5-14
5.2.1 Start Step.......................................................................................................................5-15
5.2.2 Reset Step .....................................................................................................................5-15
5.2.3 Step Status ....................................................................................................................5-16

6. Viewing Status of Drives ...........................................................................................................5-17

Note! Controlling a drive may cause personal injury or physical damage. You should have physical
access to the drive, and you must be sure that the drive and the electromechanical system are
clear to control (you can see the system, for example). Controlling a drive remotely may require
extra precautions and is discouraged.
With DriveWindow you can control drives principally in two ways:
• Browsing and using the raw control items.
• Using the Drive menu and/or the drive panel toolbar.
We recommend that you do not mix the ways, but use exclusively either. For example, if you take
control using the Drive menu or drive panel toolbar, do not use the raw items to control the drive.
To be able to control a drive by DriveWindow, the drive has to be configured such a way that it is
possible. Also, the operator panel of the drive must not have the control taken, i.e., REM must have
been selected instead of LOC.
See Also: Drive Menu
Drive Panel Toolbar
Viewing Status of Drives

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1. Controlling by Raw Control Items

You can control any drive by browsing the Control sub-tree in the browse tree pane and writing the
control items in the item list pane.

When you are controlling a drive this way, DriveWindow acts blindly - it just does what you ask it to do.
So, you must have intimate knowledge about the drive.
Note that the actual values of Boolean write-only controls are usually not used. So, it does not matter,
whether you write ON or OFF to the Control.Start. The mere writing starts the drive, if it is in proper
status.
All checking is done by the drive. If the drive rejects the control you wrote, you get an error message.

It may also be that the drive accepts the control you wrote, but discards it silently.
Most new drives have a watchdog associated with external control. If you are going to control such a
drive with the raw control items, you should put Control.Local on-line, lock it to be sure it stays on-line,
and write ON into it. The procedure described takes control of the drive and keeps on the “heartbeat”.

Note that because DriveOPC keeps the “heartbeat” on by internally writing to Control.Local, the ON
value is usually shown with quality uncertain.

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To clear the faultlogger of a drive, browse the Control sub-tree of Fault logger in the browse tree pane
and write into the Clear item in the item list pane.

You need not to have taken control when clearing the faultlogger. The value you write, does not matter.
The mere writing clears the faultlogger.
See Also: Controlling Drives
Browsing Parameters and Signals
Changing Parameters

2. Taking and Releasing Control

Except clearing a faultlogger, you need to have control taken of a drive, before you can control (i.e.,
send commands like start and stop) it.
You can control one drive at a time when using the Drive menu and/or the drive panel toolbar. It means
that you have to release currently taken control, if you want to control another drive.
If you have no control taken, you are able to clear the faultlogger of any drive. If you have taken control
of a drive, DriveWindow allows you to clear the faultlogger of the controlled drive only, so that there will
be no misunderstanding about the faultlogger cleared.
For safety reasons, commands that may cause heavy communication traffic, are disabled while control
is taken. Because of heavy communication traffic, the watchdog in the drive could go off thus causing a
panel loss.
In the Parameters submenu of the File menu the following commands are disabled (grayed) while
control of a drive is taken:
• Save As.
• Selected in the Export submenu.
• All Drives in the Export submenu.
• Compare, unless an open parameter file is selected.
• Download.
In the System Software submenu of the File menu the following commands are disabled (grayed) while
control of a drive is taken:
• Backup.
• Backup All.
• Restore.
• Download.

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2.1 Take Control

Note! Controlling a drive may cause personal injury or physical damage. You should have physical
access to the drive, and you must be sure that the drive and the electromechanical system are
clear to control (you can see the system, for example). Controlling a drive remotely may require
extra precautions and is discouraged.
For safety reasons, commands that may cause heavy communication traffic, are disabled while control
is taken. Because of heavy communication traffic, the watchdog in the drive could go off thus causing a
panel loss.
If you are currently controlling another drive, you have to release it first. DriveWindow allows you to
control just one drive at a time (unless you use the raw control items).
To take control of a drive, select first the drive by clicking it in the browse tree pane. It is not necessary
to select its root, however. Selection of any of its sub-branches will do.

Then either, click the take/release control button in the drive panel toolbar, select the Take Control
command in the Drive menu, or press Alt+F2.

If control could be taken successfully, status image and name of the drive, field for entering the
reference value, and command buttons are shown in the drive panel toolbar.

The status image of the drive in the browse tree pane will be refreshed even if drive status refreshing is
off.

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Also, control commands in the Drive menu are enabled, and the Take Control command has toggled to
Release Control.

If the drive under control does not have a command available, the corresponding button in the drive
panel toolbar is hidden, and in the Drive menu it is disabled (grayed).
AC and DC drives reuse some positions to show buttons for different commands, which do not exist in
the other type of drive. The commands shown in the Drive menu are changed correspondingly.
The items of the control item set are shown in the item list pane.

If you want to use some them, you have better to lock those items immediately, and possibly put some
of them also on-line.

2.1.1 Losing control

If the watchdog in the drive goes off for some reason, or there is a communication failure, your PC
beeps and control is automatically released. The faultlogger usually logs a PANEL LOSS fault in such
a case.

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2.1.2 Disabled operations

To minimize the probability of losing control, some operations, which may cause heavy communication
load, are disabled, while control is taken.
For example, the following operations are disabled:
• Saving, comparing, exporting, and downloading of drive parameters.
• Uploading, restoring, and downloading system software.
See Also: Controlling Drives
Taking and Releasing Control
Commanding a Drive
Release Control

2.2 Release Control

When you do not need to control a drive any more, you should release the control.
Before releasing control, we recommend, if possible, to set the reference value to zero and stop the
drive.
To release control of a drive, select first the drive by clicking it in the browse tree pane. It is not
necessary to select its root, however. Selection of any of its sub-branches will do.

Then either, click the take/release control button in the drive panel toolbar, select the Release Control
command in the Drive menu, or press Alt+F2.

If control could be released successfully, the drive panel toolbar is cleared.

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Also, control commands in the Drive menu are disabled (grayed), and the Release Control command
has toggled to Take Control.

If you locked some of the items of the control item set when you took control, you may want to delete
or unlock them now.

2.2.1 Automatic release of control

Control is automatically released when you:

• Disconnect the OPC Server.
• Restore a workspace.
• Close DriveWindow.
• Log off or shut down the Windows operating system.
Since DriveWindow version 2.11 you have to confirm the automatic releasing of control, e.g.:

Note that if you cancel releasing of control when logging off or shutting down the Windows operating
system, logging off or shutting down in cancelled, but there may be applications, which are not properly
prepared for such a situation, and may become unstable up to the end of the session.
See Also: Controlling Drives
Taking and Releasing Control
Take Control

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3. Clearing Faultlogger
To be able to clear faultlogger of a drive depends on, whether you have taken control of some drive or
not:
• If you have taken control of a drive, you can clear the faultlogger of that drive only (unless
using the raw control items).
• If you have not taken control of any drive, you can clear faultlogger of any selected drive.
To clear the faultlogger of a drive, select first the drive by clicking it in the browse tree pane. It is not
necessary to select its root, however. Selection of any of its sub-branches will do.

Then either, click the clear faultlogger button in the drive panel toolbar, or select the Clear Faultlogger
command in the Drive menu.

Note that a faultlogger can also be cleared by using the raw control items.
If you were viewing the faultlogger in the item list pane, and the items are off-line, no change happens
in the item list pane, when the faultlogger is cleared.

If you were not viewing the faultlogger in the item list pane, but you have viewed it some time earlier,
and your Desktop Preferences selection tells to use cache when item list pane changes, all faultlogger
items are shown with quality uncertain after clearing the faultlogger, if you select to view them.

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The quality is uncertain because the DriveOPC has cleared the items in its cache, but it is not known
for certain that they are also cleared in the drive.
If your Desktop Preferences selection tells to use cache when item list pane changes, the faultlogger
items stay uncertain, until you update them (or put them on-line). When you update them, the values
currently in the drive are shown in the item list pane.

4.1.1 Setting the reference

The reference value cannot be set through the Drive menu.

Note that the current reference value is shown below the reference value edit field always when control
is taken.
To set reference, enter the reference value into the reference value edit field in the drive panel toolbar,
and either click the set reference button or press the Enter key.

The reference value edit field is cleared when the value is sent to the drive and the current reference
value is updated.

While entering the value, you can use many the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the
arrow keys, Home, End, etc. Keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note that one of the not
functional editing keys is Del.
Note that DriveWindow does not check any limits of the value entered. Limit checking is done by the
drive. It may be that the drive rejects the value, in which case you PC beeps. It may also be that the
drive accepts the value, but silently limits it.
If the value you entered is not numeric, DriveWindow beeps, and you may edit the value.

Before releasing control, we recommend setting the reference to zero, if possible.

4.1.2 Drive panel toolbar

When you have control taken, you can give commands using the drive panel toolbar by just clicking the
corresponding button on it, if the button is visible and enabled (not grayed).

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Note that the take/release control and the clear faultlogger buttons are functional even when control is
not taken. However, when you have control taken, they are enabled only, if the controlled drive (or
some of its sub-branch) is selected in the browse tree pane.

4.1.3 Drive menu

When you have control taken, you can give commands using the Drive menu by selecting the
corresponding command in it, if the command is enabled (not grayed).

For DC drives, Off opens the contactor and On closes the contactor.
Note that the Take Control and the Clear Faultlogger commands are enabled even when control is not
taken. However, when you have control taken, they are enabled only, if the controlled drive (or some of
its sub-branch) is selected in the browse tree pane.

4.1.4 Shortcut keys

Some commands in the Drive menu can be given also using shortcut keys. You can use them when
you control taken.
The following commands have a shortcut key:
• Release control: Alt+F2.
• Reset fault: Alt+F8.
• Start: Shift+F9.
• Stop: Shift+F10.
• Reverse (AC drives): Ctrl+F5.
• Forward (AC drives): Ctrl+F6.
• Coast stop: Ctrl+F4.
• Close contactor (DC drives): Ctrl+F5 (On).
• Open contactor (DC drives): Ctrl+F6 (Off).

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Note that when you have control taken, Alt+F2 releases control only, if the controlled drive (or some of
its sub-branch) is selected in the browse tree pane.
Note that when control is not taken, Alt+F2 takes control.
Note! Shortcut keys other than F1 do not work while a menu is dropped-down.

5. How to Use Step Function

When tuning a drive, you often need to make step changes into the reference to see, how the drive
reacts. DriveWindow helps you in this by allowing you to make a step in the reference by a single
command.
You can define the step to be positive or negative. You can also define that the step is reset
automatically after the time you specify.
To be able to use the step function, you have to:
• Define the step in Step Settings dialog box.
• Have control of the drive taken.
• Start a step by a command.
• Optionally reset an active step.
Note that an active step is automatically reset when control of the drive is released. An active step is
also reset, if you change the reference value by using the drive panel toolbar, or define a new step with
the Step Settings dialog.
See Also: Commanding a Drive
Step Settings
Taking and Releasing Control
Using Step

5.1 Step Settings

Step settings consist of:
• Direction (positive/negative) and size of the step.
• Automatic or manual resetting.
• Duration of the step in case it is automatically reset.
Step settings can be changed even if you are not connected to an OPC Server.
Step settings are preserved between DriveWindow sessions. They are also saved and restored with
the workspace. However, values restored from a workspace file are in effect only while the workspace
is open. When you restart DriveWindow, the last step settings that you made are effective again.

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To set step settings:

A Step Settings dialog box is displayed:

After you have specified your step, click the OK button. If a step is active at that time, it is reset
immediately. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel button.
Note that if you selected manual reset, DriveWindow sets duration to zero, which is the internal mean
to tell that manual reset is used.
If you set an illegal value into size or duration, a message box similar to the following is displayed.

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After you clicked OK, the illegal value is highlighted in the Step Settings dialog box and you have the
opportunity to edit it.

Note that setting step size to zero effectively means disabling the step function. In this case the Step
Start command in the Drive menu is disabled (grayed) and the Start/End Step button in the drive panel
toolbar is not shown at all.

5.2 Using Step

When you have control taken of a drive and have made proper step settings, you can start a step and
reset an active step.

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5.2.1 Start Step

You start a step by Step Start command in the Drive menu or by clicking the Start/End Step button in
the drive panel toolbar.

5.2.2 Reset Step

You reset an active step by Step Reset command in the Drive menu or by clicking the Start/End Step
button in the drive panel toolbar.

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Note that if you have selected the option to use an automatically reset step, the step is reset after the
duration you have specified.
Note also that an active step is automatically reset when control of the drive is released. An active step
is also reset, if you change the reference value by using the drive panel toolbar, or define a new step
with the Step Settings dialog.

5.2.3 Step Status

Whether a step is active or reset, can be seen by looking at the Drive menu.
If the menu shows the Step Start command, step function is in reset state.

If the menu shows the Step Reset command, step function is in active state.

The shape of the Start/End button in the drive panel toolbar also includes information about the step
function:

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Image Means
Positive, automatically reset step in reset state. Clicking the button
starts the step.
Negative, automatically reset step in reset state. Clicking the button
starts the step.
Positive step, which requires manual reset, in reset state. Clicking
the button starts the step.
Negative step, which requires manual reset, in reset state. Clicking
the button starts the step.
Positive, automatically reset step in active state. Clicking the button
prematurely resets of the step.
Negative, automatically reset step in active state. Clicking the
button prematurely resets of the step.
Positive step, which requires manual reset, in active state. Clicking
the button resets the step.
Negative step, which requires manual reset, in active state.
Clicking the button resets the step.
See Also: How to Use Step Function
Step Settings

6. Viewing Status of Drives

You can browse the Status sub-branch of a drive to view its items in the item list pane. To be sure that
the values shown are up-to-date, you should update them, if they are not on-line.

If you have selected refreshing of status of all drives in desktop preferences, you can see status of all
drives at a glance in the browse tree pane by observing the images in front of the drives.

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However, refreshing of the status images in the browse tree pane can also be off-line. You can toggle
the status images on-line/off-line either by clicking the status refresh on/off button in the standard
toolbar, or toggling Status Refresh in the File menu.

Note that refreshing status of the drive, control of which has been taken, is always on-line.

If you have in desktop preferences selected the option to refresh the status of the selected drive only,
you can check status of a drive just by clicking it in the browse tree pane while status images are on-
line. It is not necessary to select its root, however. Selection of any of its sub-branches will do.

Note that although status refresh setting made in desktop preferences is preserved between
DriveWindow sessions, it is also saved and restored with the workspace. However, the value restored
from a workspace file is in effect only while the workspace is open. When you restart DriveWindow, the
last status refresh setting that you made in desktop preferences is effective again.

The status image of the selected drive is displayed also in the status bar.

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The image displayed in front of a drive shows the status of the drive as follows:
Image Status
Fault and (Forward) Direction
Fault and not (Forward) Direction
Not Running and Warning and (Forward) Direction
Not Running and Warning and not (Forward) Direction
Not Running and (Forward) Direction
Not Running and not (Forward) Direction
Running and Warning and (Forward) Direction
Running and Warning and not (Forward) Direction
Running and (Forward) Direction
Running and not (Forward) Direction
Otherwise (status display is off-line or status cannot be read, for
example)
See Also: Browse Tree Pane
Browsing Parameters and Signals
Viewing Parameters and Signals
Desktop Preferences

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Contents
1. Monitor and Dataloggers.............................................................................................................6-3
1.1.1 Monitor.............................................................................................................................6-4
1.1.2 Dataloggers .....................................................................................................................6-5
1.1.3 Settings............................................................................................................................6-5
1.1.4 Controlling........................................................................................................................6-6
1.1.5 Graph Preferences ..........................................................................................................6-6
1.1.6 Viewing ............................................................................................................................6-6
1.1.7 Saving and Restoring ......................................................................................................6-6
1.1.8 Printing and Exporting .....................................................................................................6-6

2. Common Trend Settings .............................................................................................................6-6

2.1 Setting X-Axis Length .............................................................................................................6-7
2.2 Setting Y Minimum and Maximum ..........................................................................................6-9
2.3 Adapting Y Axis.....................................................................................................................6-12
2.4 Setting Scaling ......................................................................................................................6-14
2.5 Automatic Scaling .................................................................................................................6-16
2.5.1 Automatic Scaling of All Channels.................................................................................6-17
2.5.2 Automatic Scaling of Selected Channels.......................................................................6-18
2.6 Restoring Default Settings ....................................................................................................6-18
2.6.1 Restored Monitor Settings .............................................................................................6-19
2.6.2 Restored Datalogger Settings .......................................................................................6-19

3. Setting Monitor...........................................................................................................................6-20
3.1 Setting Monitoring Mode .......................................................................................................6-20
3.2 Setting Monitoring Interval ....................................................................................................6-21
3.3 Setting History Buffer Size ....................................................................................................6-24
3.4 Setting and Removing Monitored Variables..........................................................................6-27
3.4.1 Adding and removing items selected in the item list pane.............................................6-27
3.4.2 Removing items selected in the monitor settings pane .................................................6-29
3.4.3 Setting and removing the variable of a channel ............................................................6-30
3.4.4 Changing the drive of monitored variables ....................................................................6-33

4. Setting Datalogger .....................................................................................................................6-34

4.1.1 Selecting dataloggers instead of the monitor ................................................................6-35
4.1.2 Selecting the datalogger ................................................................................................6-35
4.2 Setting Datalogger Status Refresh .......................................................................................6-35
4.3 Setting Datalogger Interval ...................................................................................................6-37
4.4 Setting Pre-Trigger Time ......................................................................................................6-39
4.5 Setting Trigger Conditions ....................................................................................................6-42
4.6 Setting Trigger Variable ........................................................................................................6-45
4.6.1 Removing trigger variable..............................................................................................6-47
4.7 Setting Trigger Level.............................................................................................................6-48
4.8 Setting Trigger Hysteresis.....................................................................................................6-50
4.9 Setting and Removing Datalogger Variables ........................................................................6-51
4.9.1 Adding and removing items selected in the item list pane.............................................6-52
4.9.2 Removing items selected in the datalogger settings pane ............................................6-53
4.9.3 Setting and removing the variable of a channel ............................................................6-53

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5. Controlling Monitor................................................................................................................... 6-57

5.1.1 Start Monitor ................................................................................................................. 6-58
5.1.2 Pause Monitor............................................................................................................... 6-59
5.1.3 Continue Monitor........................................................................................................... 6-60
5.1.4 Stop Monitor.................................................................................................................. 6-61
5.1.5 Clear Monitor ................................................................................................................ 6-62

6. Controlling Datalogger ............................................................................................................. 6-62

6.1.1 Start Datalogger............................................................................................................ 6-63
6.1.2 Stop Datalogger ............................................................................................................ 6-63
6.1.3 Trigger Datalogger ........................................................................................................ 6-64
6.1.4 Clear Datalogger........................................................................................................... 6-65
6.1.5 Upload Datalogger ........................................................................................................ 6-65
6.1.6 Clear Datalogger Graph................................................................................................ 6-67

7. Graph Preferences .................................................................................................................... 6-68

7.1 Miscellaneous Graph Preferences ....................................................................................... 6-69
7.1.1 Connection Method....................................................................................................... 6-69
7.1.2 Scaling Method ............................................................................................................. 6-69
7.1.3 Cursor Values ............................................................................................................... 6-70
7.2 Screen Colors and Line Styles ............................................................................................. 6-72
7.2.1 Line Style ...................................................................................................................... 6-72
7.2.2 Color ............................................................................................................................. 6-73
7.3 Printer Line Styles ................................................................................................................ 6-74
7.3.1 Line Style ...................................................................................................................... 6-75
7.4 Color Printer Colors and Line Styles .................................................................................... 6-75
7.4.1 Line Style ...................................................................................................................... 6-76
7.4.2 Color ............................................................................................................................. 6-77
7.5 Monitor Visualization Method ............................................................................................... 6-78

8. Viewing Trends.......................................................................................................................... 6-78

8.1.1 Graph Preferences ....................................................................................................... 6-79
8.1.2 Selecting Monitor or Datalogger ................................................................................... 6-79
8.1.3 Zooming Levels............................................................................................................. 6-80
8.2 Scrolling Trends ................................................................................................................... 6-80
8.2.1 Vertical scrolling............................................................................................................ 6-81
8.2.2 Horizontal scrolling........................................................................................................ 6-81
8.3 Zooming Trends ................................................................................................................... 6-83
8.3.1 Zooming In .................................................................................................................... 6-83
8.3.2 Zooming Out ................................................................................................................. 6-85
8.3.3 Zooming Reset ............................................................................................................. 6-85
8.4 Using Graph Cursor ............................................................................................................. 6-86
8.5 Graph Cursor Options .......................................................................................................... 6-91
8.5.1 Buttons.......................................................................................................................... 6-91
8.5.2 Showing or Hiding Numerical Values............................................................................ 6-92
8.5.3 Scaled or Unscaled Numerical Values ......................................................................... 6-92
8.6 Changing Display Format of Graph Cursor Values.............................................................. 6-93
8.7 Trends of Analog vs Digital Signals ..................................................................................... 6-96
8.7.1 Analog Signals .............................................................................................................. 6-96
8.7.2 Digital Signals ............................................................................................................... 6-98

9. Saving Trends ......................................................................................................................... 6-100

9.1.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed: ................................................................ 6-102
9.1.2 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed:....................................................... 6-102

10. Restoring Trends ................................................................................................................. 6-103

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10.1 Opening a Graph File..........................................................................................................6-104

10.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed: .....................................................................6-105
10.2 Viewing and Editing the File Comment ...............................................................................6-106

11. Printing Trends.....................................................................................................................6-106

11.1.1 Printing without a printer ..............................................................................................6-107
11.1.2 Preferences for printing ...............................................................................................6-107
11.1.3 Setting up the printer ...................................................................................................6-107
11.1.4 Printing.........................................................................................................................6-108

12. Exporting Trends..................................................................................................................6-110

12.1 Copying Trends to the Clipboard ........................................................................................6-111
12.2 Exporting Trends to a File...................................................................................................6-113
12.2.1 Examples of exported trends.......................................................................................6-116

1. Monitor and Dataloggers

DriveWindow can show and control two kinds of trends:
• Monitor
• Datalogger
The lower two panes in DriveWindow window area are reserved for setting and displaying trends.
The lower left pane, trend settings pane, is used to display and change settings.
The lower right pane, trend display pane, is used to display the trends in graphical format.
The panes are shared by the monitor and the dataloggers. The trend settings pane contains two tabs,
which you use to select, whether to show, change, and control the monitor or the currently selected
datalogger.

When you have selected the monitor, datalogger settings and trends are hidden and its controls are
disabled.

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When you have selected the datalogger, monitor settings and trend are hidden and its controls are
disabled.

The datalogger panes are shared by all dataloggers. The current datalogger is selected by selecting
the drive in the browse tree pane. If the drive has two dataloggers, the drive datalogger is selected
either in the browse tree pane or from the Datalogger menu.

Note that all datalogger settings and displays are datalogger specific. So, when you change a
datalogger setting, for example, it concerns the currently selected datalogger only. Settings of all other
dataloggers are preserved.
You can verify the currently selected datalogger from the OPC address shown in the title in the
datalogger display pane. If a drive has two dataloggers DL1 or DL2 in the title indicate, which of the
loggers are shown.

In addition to viewing the trends, you can also print and export trends.

1.1.1 Monitor

Monitor runs and collects data in your PC. Collecting is done by reading cyclically the monitored items
from the drives. The items can reside in different drives.
The values are drawn in the monitor display pane in real time, when the monitor is running.
If you pause the monitor, updating of the monitor display pane is ceased, but the values are still
collected in the background. The values collected during pause are drawn, when you command the
monitor to continue.
Note! Windows is not a real-time operating system. It means that, in practice, even if the
measurements are done cyclically, they are not done with equal time intervals. Load caused by
drives in Windows kernel may cause interrupts in measurements, order of which are hundreds
of milliseconds.
The measured values are time stamped by DriveOPC. The graphical drawing package, however, is
able to do the drawing only, if the measurement interval is assumed to be constant. Thus, the drawn
points are actually estimated from measured values. How the estimation is done depends on the
monitor visualization method selected in graph preferences.

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1.1.2 Dataloggers

Dataloggers reside in drives. Data is collected by the drive.

Collecting can be stopped by either a specific stop command or by a triggering condition becoming true
in the drive.
All other datalogger settings than those affecting the (x-axis length, y minimum and maximum,
scaling) are preserved in the drive. They are preserved in the drive even when it has no power.
However, when a datalogger is uploaded, the current settings in DriveWindow are frozen, so the
settings show the settings of the uploaded trend.
It is not possible to view datalogger trends in real-time.

1.1.3 Settings

Before you start monitoring or a datalogger, you usually have to make changes to their settings, such
as channels to monitor or log, measuring interval, etc.
Some of the common settings, which affect the displaying of the trends, you can change also after
starting.
Most settings are entered by using a dialog box with one or more edit fields. When the dialog box is
presented, the fields contain present values of the settings to be changed. One of them is selected, so
that if you start typing, the displayed value is immediately overwritten.
If the value can be negative, it can optionally be preceded by a plus sign.
Real values can be given value as an integer, too. A real number can end with an optional exponent,
which is preceded by E or e. The exponent can be signed. Note that the decimal symbol in real
numbers is period regardless the regional settings. Examples: 1.2, -1.23E-3, 1e3.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button and pressing the Enter key is same as clicking the OK
button.
If a value is invalid, when you click the OK button, an error message is displayed. You have to
acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the operation.
Although the possibility of running out of (virtual) memory is greatest when you are setting size of the
monitor history buffer or the monitoring interval, it is, in theory, possible while changing any of the
settings. The setting you are changing is accepted, but the combination of settings cannot be used by
DriveWindow.
When you run out of memory, you get an error message:

The trend display pane is cleared. You have to change some of the settings to get rid of the out-of-
memory condition.

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1.1.4 Controlling

The monitor can be controlled by starting, pausing, continuing, stopping, and clearing it.
A datalogger can be controlled by starting, stopping, triggering, clearing, and uploading it. The
uploaded graph can be cleared, too.

1.1.5 Graph Preferences

You have several options to control the outlook of graphs.

The drawing points can be connected in various ways.
You can control, how scaling is shown and entered.
Displaying of the graph cursor has some options.
The method of estimating the drawing points from measured values in the monitor can be changed.
Screen and color printer trend colors can be changed. Line style of trends can be changed, separately
for the screen, black and white printer, and color printer.

1.1.6 Viewing

Viewing of the monitor and datalogger trends is quite similar.

You can scroll horizontally and vertically. You can zoom inwards, outwards, and reset zooming. You
can examine the trends using a graph cursor.
You can temporarily change display format of selected graph cursor numerical values.
You can also change settings like x-axis length, y minimum and maximum, and scaling (dataloggers
only) while viewing a trend.

1.1.7 Saving and Restoring

Since version 2.10 of DriveWindow, trends can be saved and restored.

1.1.8 Printing and Exporting

Both monitor and datalogger trends can be printed, copied to clipboard, and exported (in numerical
format).
See Also: Window Area
Browse Tree Pane
Trend Settings Pane
Trend Display Pane

2. Common Trend Settings

The monitor and the loggers have the following common settings, which affect the displaying of the
corresponding trends:
• X-axis length (in seconds)
• Y-axis minimum and maximum
• Y-axis adaptation, which is actually just another way to change y-axis minimum and maximum
• Scaling of different channels
With some exceptions, all of these can be changed at any time:
• Y-axis can be adapted only when a trend is drawn in the trend display pane.
• Scaling of different channels of a monitor channel cannot be changed while the monitor is
running.

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Note! Changing of the scaling of a monitor channel requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from
the beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.
The common settings are saved into and restored from a workspace.
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu
Restoring Default Settings

2.1 Setting X-Axis Length

You can set x-axis length of the monitor or a datalogger at any time.
Note that zooming usually also changes x-axis length.
X-axis length of a datalogger can also change automatically when the datalogger is uploaded. If the x-
axis length is bigger than size of the datalogger channel buffer, if it is less than the interval, or if it is not
multiple of the interval, x-axis length is automatically set to the size of the datalogger channel buffer.
Note that if a datalogger has never been uploaded, DriveWindow does not know for sure the size of a
datalogger channel buffer. Thus DriveWindow does not do any checking about the x-axis length, until it
knows more about the datalogger.
When size of the datalogger channel buffer is known, DriveWindow does not accept improper setting
of x-axis length. However, when the datalogger interval is changed, x-axis length is not checked, and
thus may have an improper value. In such cases, uploading of the datalogger automatically sets the x-
axis length.
Note that changing x-axis length affects only the current zooming level. Zooming outwards or zooming
reset restores the previous or basic level x-axis setting.
To change x-axis length, either double-click the X Axis Length (s) field in the trend settings pane, or
select X Length command in the Axis submenu in the Monitor or Datalogger menu.

An X Axis Length (s) dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

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Edit or enter a new (real) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is shown in the trend settings pane, and the x-axis in the trend display pane is updated,
too.

There are restrictions about the x-axis length:

• The value must be greater than zero.
• The value must be multiple of the interval. For example, if interval is 10 ms, x-axis length
1.001 s is invalid.
• X-axis length of the monitor must not be bigger than the history buffer.
• X-axis length of the monitor cannot exceed 32700 * interval.
• X-axis length of a datalogger must not be bigger than the size of the channel buffer in
seconds. If the datalogger has never been uploaded, size of the buffer is not known, and x-
axis length is not compared with it. However, when the datalogger is uploaded, x-axis length
is reduced automatically, if it is too big.
Some of the error messages ask, if you want DriveWindow to find a proper value for you.

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If you click the Yes button, the value in the dialog box is changed from the value you entered to a value
suggested by DriveWindow.

So, you still have the opportunity to edit the value (or cancel the operation).
If you have entered x-axis of the monitor, and it is bigger than the history buffer, you have the option to
enlarge the history buffer size to be equal to the x-axis.

If you click Yes, your x-axis value is accepted, but the history buffer is changed, too.
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Restoring Default Settings
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu

2.2 Setting Y Minimum and Maximum

You can set y-axis minimum and y-axis maximum of the monitor or a datalogger at any time.

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However, if you already have a trend shown in the trend display pane, you do not need to set y-axis
minimum yourself. Instead you can adapt y-axis, which means that DriveWindow selects and sets
proper minimum and maximum for you.
Note that zooming usually also changes y-axis minimum and/or maximum.
Y-axis minimum and/or maximum of a datalogger can also change automatically when the datalogger
is uploaded. If any of the uploaded values after scaling is smaller than the setting of y minimum, or
bigger than setting of y maximum, y minimum and/or maximum is adjusted to the smallest/biggest
value uploaded.
Note that changing y-axis minimum or maximum affects only the current zooming level. Zooming
outwards or zooming reset restores the previous or basic level y-axis settings
Y-axis minimum and maximum can be changed by scrolling, too. However, to be able to scroll, you
need to have an OPC Server connected. Scrolling is done by using the short vertical scrollbar at the
lower left corner in the trend display pane. Scrolling adds or subtracts the distance between two tick
marks to or from both y minimum and maximum.

Note that the effect of scrolling is not always reversible. When signs of y-axis minimum and maximum
differ before scrolling, but are the same after scrolling, the number of tick marks, and also the distance
between two of them, may change.
To change y-axis maximum or minimum, either double-click the Y Axis Maximum or Y Axis Minimum
field in the trend settings pane, or select Y-Axis Maximum or Y-Axis Minimum command in the Axis
submenu in the Monitor or Datalogger menu.

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A Y Axis Maximum or Y Axis Minimum dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit
field.

Edit or enter a new (real) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is shown in the trend settings pane, and the y-axis maximum or y-axis minimum in the
trend display pane is updated, too.

There are restrictions about the y-axis minimum and y-axis maximum:
• Y-axis maximum must be greater than minimum.
• Absolute value of y-axis minimum and maximum must not exceed
3.40282356779733642751e+038.
• If y-axis minimum and maximum have same signs, their first 8 significant decimal digits must
not be equal.

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If the value is invalid, an error message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to
acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the operation.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Restoring Default Settings
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu
Adapting Y Axis

2.3 Adapting Y Axis

Note that if you have several measured channels that have values with vastly differing magnitudes,
automatic scaling may show better results than adapting y-axis.
If you already have a trend shown in the trend display pane, you can let DriveWindow to select and set
proper y-axis minimum and maximum for you.

Note that the settings concern only the current zooming level.

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To let DriveWindow to select and set y-axis minimum and maximum, either select the Adapt Y-Axis
command in the Axis submenu in the Monitor or Datalogger menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+Y.

DriveWindow immediately selects and sets proper y-axis minimum and maximum for you. The y-axis
maximum and minimum in the trend display pane are updated.

The new minimum and maximum are shown in the trend settings pane, too.

If you have no trend shown in the trend display pane, the command is disabled (grayed). Pressing
Ctrl+Shift+Y has no effect in this case.
Otherwise, if DriveWindow, for some rare reason, is not able to do the selection, it beeps, and y-axis
minimum and maximum are not changed.
The selection is done so that all points within the time defined by current x-axis are visible.
DriveWindow uses two selection methods:
• The search method: Values for y-axis minimum and maximum are searched so that the
numerical values at the tick marks of the y-axis are nicely rounded. This is the method used
normally.
• The quick method: Y-axis minimum and maximum are simply calculated from the minimum
and maximum trend points within the time defined by current x-axis. Values at the tick marks
of the y-axis are not nicely rounded. This method is used only by monitor trends while the
monitor is running, the monitoring interval is less than or equal to 2500 ms, and x-axis length
is less than or equal to 12.5 seconds.

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See Also: Common Trend Settings

Automatic Scaling
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu
Setting Y Minimum and Maximum

2.4 Setting Scaling

Scaling of monitor or datalogger channels makes is possible to draw values with largely different
ranges into the trend display pane, so that they are all visible and still have good resolution.
Instead of scaling manually, you have also the option to let DriveWindow to calculate proper scaling for
you by automatic scaling.
Depending on the scaling method selected in graph preferences, you have the option to display and
enter scaling either as coefficient and offset or as values at y=100 and y=0.
For example, if you want to analyze speed, which you assume to vary 1490...1510 rpm, and frequency
varying 49..51 Hz with great accuracy. If you have y-axis minimum -100 and maximum 100, you can
set (scaling method is coefficient and offset):
• For speed, coefficient to 10 and offset to -15000. Then 1490 is shown -100 and 1510 is
shown +100.
• For frequency, coefficient to 100 and offset to -5000. Then 49 is shown -100 and 51 is shown
+100.
If scaling method is values at y=100 and y=0, you can set:
• For speed, value at y=100 to 1510 and value at y=0 to 1500. Then 1490 is shown -100 and
1510 is shown +100.
• For frequency, value at y=100 to 51 and value at y=0 to 50. Then 49 is shown -100 and 51 is
shown +100.
Note! Changing of the scaling of a monitor channel requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from
the beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.
Note that scaling can be set before setting the variable to be monitored or logged. However, scaling of
a non-existing channel of a datalogger cannot be set. If the Setting column of a channel in the
datalogger settings pane contains n/a, the channel does not exist in the drive.
To change scaling of a channel, either double-click the Setting field of the channel in the trend settings
pane, or select the channel from the Scaling submenu in the Monitor or Datalogger menu.

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(or)

OA Channel Scaling dialog box is presented with the present scaling values shown in its edit fields.

(or)

Edit or enter a new (real) values into Coefficient and/or Offset fields and click OK. If you want to cancel
the operation, click the Cancel button.

(or)

The new values are shown in the trend settings pane. If you changed scaling of a datalogger channel
and the datalogger has been uploaded, the trends in the datalogger display pane are immediately
redrawn with the new settings.

(or)

There are restrictions about the Coefficient and the Offset:

• Absolute value of Coefficient and Offset must not exceed 1.7976931348623158e+308.

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There are restrictions about the values at y=100 and y=0 as well:
• Absolute value of them must not exceed 3.4028235677973364e+038.
• Absolute value of their difference must not exceed 3.4028235677973364e+036.
• Absolute value of their difference must not be less than 2.93873596534e-037.
If the value is invalid, an error message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to
acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the operation.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Automatic Scaling
Restoring Default Settings
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu

2.5 Automatic Scaling

Instead of scaling of monitor or datalogger channels manually, you can ask DriveWindow to calculate
proper scaling for you.
If you have only one measured channel or all the measured channels have values about the same
magnitude, adapting of y-axis may show better results than automatic scaling.
When using automatic scaling, y-axis minimum and maximum usually should have their default values
(-100 and +100) or values 0 and +100, before automatic scaling is applied. The defaults can be
restored by a single menu command.
The calculations are based on only the values within currently shown x-axis. Values not within currently
shown x-axis are not considered. Note that it is not possible to autoscale channels, which are not
measured.
You can autoscale all channels or select the individual channels to be autoscaled.
Note! Changing of the scaling of a monitor channel requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from
the beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.

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Note! Automatic scaling inverts Boolean values so that true (-1) is shown upper than false (0).

The Autoscale command in the Scaling submenu in the Monitor menu is disabled (grayed) if monitor is
not selected in the trend settings pane, monitor is cleared or running, or you have selected a not
measured channel in the trend settings pane.
The Autoscale command in the Scaling submenu in the Datalogger menu is disabled (grayed) if
datalogger is not selected in the trend settings pane, datalogger is not uploaded, or you have selected
a not measured channel in the trend settings pane.
If DriveWindow, for some rare reason, is not able to calculate proper scaling, it beeps, and no changes
in scaling is done.
Note that datalogger trends saved with DriveWindow version 2.11 or older cannot be autoscaled when
restored.

2.5.1 Automatic Scaling of All Channels

To autoscale all channels, first check that there are no channels selected in the trend settings pane.
Then either select the Autoscale command in the Scaling submenu in the Monitor or Datalogger menu,
or press Ctrl+Shift+S.

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2.5.2 Automatic Scaling of Selected Channels

To autoscale just some of the channels, first select channels to be autoscaled in the trend settings
pane. Then either select the Autoscale command in the Scaling submenu in the Monitor or Datalogger
menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+S.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Scaling
Adapting Y Axis
Restoring Default Settings
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu

2.6 Restoring Default Settings

It is possible to restore default settings of the monitor or a datalogger by a single command.
Note that the settings restored depend on the current monitoring or datalogger upload status. The
measured channels or datalogger settings residing in the drive are never changed.
To restore default settings, select the Restore Defaults command in the Scaling submenu in the
Monitor or Datalogger menu.

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2.6.1 Restored Monitor Settings

The Restore Defaults command in the Monitor menu is disabled (grayed) if monitor is not selected in
the trend settings pane or monitor is running.
If monitor is cleared, the following settings are restored to their default values:
• X-axis length
• Y-axis minimum and maximum
• Scaling
• Monitoring mode
• Monitoring interval
• History buffer size
• Zooming is reset
If monitor is stopped or paused, the following settings are restored to their default values:
• Y-axis minimum and maximum
• Scaling
• Zooming is reset
Note! Changing of the scaling of a monitor channel requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from
the beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.
If monitor is running, only the following settings are restored to their default values:
• Y-axis minimum and maximum

2.6.2 Restored Datalogger Settings

The Restore Defaults command in the Datalogger menu is disabled (grayed) if datalogger is not
selected in the trend settings pane, there is no drive, or the drive selected in the browse tree pane has
no datalogger.
If the datalogger graph is cleared, the following settings are restored to their default values:
• X-axis length
• Y-axis minimum and maximum
• Scaling
• Zooming is reset
If the datalogger has been uploaded (and is not empty), the following settings are restored to their
default values:
• Y-axis minimum and maximum
• Scaling
• Zooming is reset
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Menu
Datalogger Menu

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3. Setting Monitor
Before you can do any monitor settings, you need to have the monitor selected instead of the
dataloggers. You do the selection by clicking the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.

In addition to the common settings (x-axis length, y-axis minimum and maximum, adaptation of y-axis,
scaling of channels) for monitor and dataloggers, the monitor has the following settings:
• Mode (fast or normal)
• Interval in milliseconds
• History buffer size in seconds
• Variables to be monitored
None of these settings can be changed unless the monitor is cleared.
The common settings can be changed any time.
Note! Changing of the scaling of a monitor channel requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from
the beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.
All monitor settings are saved into and restored from a workspace. Note, however, that the restored
items must exist at restore time. If not, they cannot be restored, and the corresponding channels are
left empty.
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Settings
Monitor Menu

3.1 Setting Monitoring Mode

You can change the monitoring mode only when the monitor is cleared.
There are to modes of monitoring:
• Normal mode
• Fast Mode
In normal mode you are able, in principle, to monitor any kind of item. The minimum interval in this
mode is 10 ms. Normal mode is the mode you will almost always use.
In fast mode you can monitor only drive parameters and signals of type real or integer. The minimum
interval in this mode is 1 ms. You should avoid using this mode, because it may hang-up you PC
and/or cause panel losses in drives.
Note! Windows is not a real-time operating system. It means that, in practice, even if the
measurements are done cyclically, they are not done with equal time intervals. Load caused by
drives in Windows kernel may cause interrupts in measurements, order of which is hundreds of
milliseconds. These interrupts can hide the phenomena you are trying to monitor, especially
when your monitoring interval is small.
Note that if you have set the monitoring interval to less than 10 ms, you cannot change mode from fast
to normal. You have to first set interval greater or equal to 10 ms, and then you can change the mode
to normal.

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To change monitoring mode:

• If not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.
• Either double-click the Mode field in the monitor settings pane, or toggle Fast Mode in the
Monitor menu.

The new value of the mode is shown in the monitor settings pane. If the mode is fast, it is also marked
in the Monitor menu.

If it is not possible to change the mode (monitor is not cleared, or interval is less the 10 ms in fast
mode), your PC beeps, when you double-click the Mode field. Fast Mode in the Monitor menu is
disabled (grayed), too.
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Restoring Default Settings
Setting Monitor
Monitor and Dataloggers
Monitor Settings
Monitor Menu

3.2 Setting Monitoring Interval

Monitoring interval is actually the x-axis drawing resolution. It is also used as a cycle time of
measurements, if possible.
If a measurement cycle takes longer than the monitoring interval, some measurements are
unavoidably dropped. This can happen, when kernel level device drives are using the processor, for
example. Because the measurements are time stamped, the x-axis in the monitor display pane still
shows real time, however. The drawn values are estimated from measured values. How the estimation
is done depends on the monitor visualization method selected in graph preferences.
You can change the monitoring interval only when the monitor is cleared.
Note that x-axis length and the history buffer size (in milliseconds) must be multiple of the interval.

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To change the monitoring interval:

• If not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.
• Either double-click the Interval (ms) field in the monitor settings pane, or select the Interval
command in the Monitor menu.

An Interval (ms) dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

Edit or enter a new (integer) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is shown in the monitor settings pane.

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There are restrictions about the interval:

• The value must be an integer greater than zero.
• The value cannot be bigger than the current x-axis length in milliseconds.
• If monitoring mode is normal, the value must be at least 10.
• The value must not be too small related to x-axis length, i.e., x-axis length in milliseconds
divided by the value must not exceed 32700.
• X-axis length in milliseconds must be multiple of the value. For example, if x-axis length is 1
second, interval 3 ms is not acceptable. You must then either fix the x-axis length or use
another interval.
If the value is invalid, an error message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to
acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the operation.

If you have entered value that is not acceptable because of the current x-axis length and/or history
buffer size, you have the option to fix the x-axis length and/or the history buffer size.

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If you click Yes, your interval is accepted, but the x-axis length and/or history buffer size is changed,
too.
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Restoring Default Settings
Setting Monitor
Monitor and Dataloggers
Monitor Settings
Monitor Menu

3.3 Setting History Buffer Size

The monitor collects data into a history buffer. History buffer makes it possible to have more data
collected than fits on the screen. The data in the history buffer can be scrolled in the monitor display
pane when the monitor is paused or stopped.

When the history buffer fills, the oldest data is disregarded.

You can change the history buffer size only when the monitor is cleared.
Note that the history buffer size must be multiple of the interval.
To change the history buffer size:
• If not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.
• Either double-click the History Buffer (s) field in the monitor settings pane, or select the
History Buffer command in the Monitor menu.

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A History Buffer (s) dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

Edit or enter a new (real) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is shown in the monitor settings pane.

There are restrictions about the history buffer:

• The value in milliseconds must be at least as big as the interval.
• The value must not exceed 2147483647 ms (almost 25 days).
• The value cannot be less than the current x-axis length.
• The value must be multiple of the interval. For example, if interval is 3 ms, history buffer size
10 s is invalid.
• If the history buffer size is big and the interval is small, you may run out of virtual memory.
If the value is invalid, an error message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to
acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the operation.

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Some of the error messages ask, if you want DriveWindow to find a proper value for you.

If you click the Yes button, the value in the dialog box is changed from the value you entered to a value
suggested by DriveWindow.

So, you still have the opportunity to edit the value (or cancel the operation).
If you have entered a value, which is less than the x-axis length, you have the option to reduce the x-
axis length to be equal to the history buffer size.

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If you click Yes, your history buffer size is accepted, but the x-axis length is changed, too.
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Restoring Default Settings
Setting Monitor
Monitor and Dataloggers
Monitor Settings
Monitor Menu

3.4 Setting and Removing Monitored Variables

You can set, add, and remove variables to be monitored only when the monitor is cleared. Also
changing the drive of monitored variables requires the monitor to be cleared.
In principle, you can monitor any item as long as it is not read-protected, if you use the normal mode.
Fast mode is more restrictive.
The monitored variables can reside in different drives.
However, all monitored values are converted into real by DriveOPC. It means that it is not meaningful
to monitor string type of values, because in general, they cannot be converted to a real number.
If you are monitoring other types of variables than real or integer:
• Enumerated values are collected as integers or Booleans. They are not converted to
enumeration strings when monitored.
• Boolean value false is converted to 0 and true to -1.
• Vector or array types of variables cannot be monitored.
There are several ways to add and remove variables to be monitored.

3.4.1 Adding and removing items selected in the item list pane

Usually you add and remove monitored items by using the item list pane.
To use item list pane in adding items not yet monitored and removing items now monitored, you need
to have the items shown in the item list pane, and then:
• If not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.
• Select items, which you want to add to or remove from the monitor, in the item list pane.
• While focus in the item list pane, either click the add/remove monitored items button in the
monitor toolbar, or select the Add/Remove Items command in the Monitor menu.

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The numeric images showing the channel number in front of the now monitored items disappear, and
such an image appears in front of the items, which were added into the monitor.

Also, the descriptive names of the removed items disappear from the channels in the monitor settings
pane, and such names of the added items appear in the settings. The descriptive name is the one
shown in the item list pane, which is not necessarily the same as in the drive.

Note that the removal is done first, then the addition. The first free channel is used in addition. If there
are more variables to add than there are free channels left after removal, the extra items are not
added.
The monitored items are internally locked in the item list pane until they are removed from the monitor.
Removing an item from the monitor does not remove the item from the item list pane, it just unlocks
the internal lock. If the item is not also locked by the user, it disappears from the item list pane, when
there is a selection change in the browse tree pane.

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3.4.2 Removing items selected in the monitor settings pane

If you want to, you can remove items from the monitor also by using the monitor settings pane.
To remove items currently in monitor:
• If not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.
• Select channels, which you want to remove from the monitor, in the monitor settings pane.
Use Ctrl and Shift keys, if needed, in selection.
• While focus is in the monitor settings pane, either click the delete button in the standard
toolbar, select the Delete command in the Edit menu, or press the Del key.

The numeric images showing the channel number in front of the removed monitored items disappear.

Also, the descriptive names of the removed items disappear from the channels in the monitor settings
pane.

Removing an item from the monitor does not remove the item from the item list pane, it just unlocks
the internal lock. If the item is not also locked by the user, it disappears from the item list pane, when
there is a selection change in the browse tree pane.

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3.4.3 Setting and removing the variable of a channel

It is possible to set an item simultaneously to the desktop and into a monitor channel. The same
feature can be used also to change the monitored variable and remove it.
You probably seldom use this feature. However, it is the only way to get the same item monitored in
several channels (if you, for some reason, want to do that).
If you are setting an empty channel, you can use an item as a template in setting. To do so, select a
single item in the item list pane.

Anyway, if not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane, and select the channel
you want to set from the Set Variable submenu of the Monitor menu.

An Add Item to Monitor and Desktop dialog box is presented. If you are setting an empty channel and
had an item selected to be used as a template, both edit fields already have values, which you can
edit.

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If you are setting an empty channel, but you have no item selected to be used as a template (or had
multiple selections), the fields are filled with the values last accepted by adding an item into the
desktop. In case the last accepted values were empty (request for removing an item), you have to fill
the edit fields yourself.

If the channel you are setting is not empty, the current settings are in the edit fields.

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If the OPC address you gave is correct and the item exists, it is added into the item list pane and to the
monitor channel, which you are setting. Note that it is internally locked, because it is monitored, but not
on-line, even if the template had been on-line. The descriptive name of the item is also shown in the
channel field of the monitor settings. The previous item, if there was one, is removed.

Note that the removed item still stays unlocked (unless you have locked it also yourself) in the item list
pane.
If the OPC address is wrong or the item does not exist, your PC beeps when you click OK, and the Add
Item to Monitor and Desktop dialog box stays.
However, if you clear both edit fields, it is not an error, but any monitored variable already in the
channel you are setting is removed from the monitor (but stays unlocked in the item list pane).

Note that the removed item still stays unlocked (unless you have locked it also yourself) in the item list
pane.

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3.4.4 Changing the drive of monitored variables

Note that to be able to change the drive of monitored variables you need to have the monitor cleared.

Changing the drive is done by using the browse tree pane and, if not all channels are to be changed,
also the item list pane.
To change the drive:
• If not yet selected, select the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.
• In the item list pane, select the monitored items, drive of which you want to change. If you
want change the drive of all monitored items, you can also leave them all unselected.
• In the browse tree pane, select the new drive by clicking it. It is not necessary to select its
root, however. Selection of any of its sub-branches will do.
• Finally, select the Change Drive command in the Monitor menu.

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The drive of the selected channels (or all channels, if nothing was selected) change.

Note that the descriptive names of the items may also change because they are either fetched from
the drive or, if not available, artificially re-constructed.
Note also that your selection can contain items, which already reside in the new drive. They remain as
if they were unselected. If all selected items reside in the new drive, the Change Drive command in the
Monitor menu is disabled (grayed).
If the new drive does not contain some of the items to be changed, no changes are made.
DriveWindow just beeps in such a case.
The on-line and locking states of the changed items do not change.
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Setting Monitor
Monitor and Dataloggers
Monitor Settings
Monitor Menu
Adding Items to the Desktop
Browse Tree Pane

4. Setting Datalogger
Before you can do any datalogger settings, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the
monitor. Also, you have to select the datalogger, settings of which you want to change or view.
In addition to the common settings (x-axis length, y-axis minimum and maximum, adaptation of y-axis,
scaling of channels) for monitor and dataloggers, a datalogger has the following settings:
• Datalogger status display on-line/off-line
• Interval
• Pre-triggering time in milliseconds
• Triggering conditions
• Triggering variable
• Triggering level
• Triggering hysteresis
• Variables to be logged
Note that only the datalogger status display on-line/off-line can be changed at any time. None of the
others can be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in the drive is not
running.
The common settings can be changed any time.
Except the common settings and the datalogger status refresh, all settings are actually kept in the
drive. They are also items, which can be browsed, viewed and changed as any other items. However, if
you are going to use the upper level datalogger handling functionality in DriveWindow, you should not
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4.1.1 Selecting dataloggers instead of the monitor

You select dataloggers instead of the monitor by clicking the Datalogger tab in the trend settings pane.

4.1.2 Selecting the datalogger

If the drive has only one datalogger, it is enough just to select the drive in the browse tree pane.

Note that to select a drive, it is not necessary to select its root, selection of any of its sub-branches will
do.
If the drive has more than one datalogger, the datalogger within the drive has to be selected, too.
Selection can be done either using the browse tree pane of by toggling the Datalogger 2 toggle in the
Datalogger menu after the drive has been selected from the browse tree pane.

Note that to select the datalogger within a drive using the browse tree pane, it is not necessary to
select the Datalogger n sub-branch, selection of any of its sub-branches will do. While selection is
made using the browse tree pane, it is not possible to select the datalogger from the Datalogger menu.
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Browse Tree Pane
Trend Settings Pane
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

4.2 Setting Datalogger Status Refresh

Datalogger status is displayed in the datalogger settings pane. The status consists of two fields:
• Status
• Triggered by
You can change the status refresh of a datalogger any time. This setting is not in the drive datalogger
but in DriveWindow. It is also saved into and restored from a workspace.
When the datalogger graph is cleared, both of the fields are put on-line/ off-line.
When you have uploaded the datalogger, the Triggered by field is frozen to show the condition at
uploading time. It stays off-line until you clear the graph.

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The Status field can be put on-line even if the datalogger has been uploaded. If you change status off-
line in this case, the display returns to show the status as it was at upload time.
Note that controlling the datalogger may automatically change the on-line/off-line status, too.
Before changing the on-line/off-line datalogger status display, you need to have dataloggers selected
instead of the monitor, and also the datalogger selected.
To change the on-line/off-line datalogger status display, either double-click the Status or Triggered by
field in the datalogger settings pane, or toggle Status Refresh in the Datalogger menu.

Note that if the datalogger graph is not cleared, you cannot change the status by clicking the Triggered
by field (your PC beeps).
The on-line status is shown with yellow background of the values in Status and Triggered by fields. If
the datalogger graph is not cleared, only the Status field can be on-line.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

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4.3 Setting Datalogger Interval

Datalogger interval is the measurement interval used by the drive datalogger. The setting is kept in the
drive, not in DriveWindow.
The interval cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in the drive
is not running.
Unit of the interval varies depending on the drive. The unit is usually millisecond, but there are drives,
in which the unit is 0.1 ms. The proper unit is shown in the datalogger settings pane.
Before a changing datalogger interval, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the monitor,
and also the datalogger selected.
To change the datalogger interval, either double-click the Interval field in the datalogger settings pane,
or select the Interval command in the Datalogger menu.

An Interval dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

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Edit or enter a new (integer) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is written to the drive and, if the drive accepts it, is shown in the datalogger settings
pane.

In addition to possible restrictions set by the drive, DriveWindow enforces some restrictions about the
interval:
• The value must be an integer greater than zero.
• The pre-trigger time, when converted to the same unit as the interval, must be multiple of the
value. For example, if the pre-trigger time is 1 second, interval 3 ms is not acceptable. You
must then either fix the pre-trigger time or use another interval.
Note that x-axis length (in interval unit) must not be less than the interval and must be multiple of the
interval. When setting the interval, x-axis length is not checked, and may have an improper value as
result of changing the interval.
However, when the datalogger is uploaded, x-axis length is changed automatically, if the x-axis length
is bigger than size of the datalogger channel buffer, if it is less than the interval, or if it is not multiple of
the interval. In these cases, x-axis length is set to the size of the datalogger channel buffer.
If the interval value you entered is invalid, an error message is displayed, when you click the OK
button. You have to acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the operation.

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If you have entered a value, which causes the pre-trigger time (in interval unit) not to be multiple of the
value, you have the option to allow DriveWindow to find and set the nearest proper value for the pre-
trigger time.

If you click Yes, your interval is accepted, but the pre-trigger time is changed, too.
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

4.4 Setting Pre-Trigger Time

Datalogger pre-trigger time is actually saved as number of measurements in the drive. It tells the drive
datalogger, how many measurements are to be kept in the datalogger channel buffers before the
triggering moment. The setting is kept in the drive, and DriveWindow converts it to time by multiplying
the count by the interval.
The pre-trigger time cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in
the drive is not running.
Unit of the pre-trigger time is always milliseconds, even if the interval unit may vary depending on the
drive.
Before changing a datalogger pre-trigger time, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the
monitor, and also the datalogger selected.

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To change the datalogger pre-trigger time, either double-click the Pre-Trig (ms) field in the datalogger
settings pane, or select the Pre-Trig (ms) command in the Trig Settings submenu of the Datalogger
menu.

A Pre-Trig (ms) dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

Edit or enter a new (real) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

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The new value is written to the drive and, if the drive accepts it, is shown in the datalogger settings
pane.

In addition to possible restrictions set by the drive, DriveWindow enforces some restrictions about the
interval:
• The value, when converted to the interval unit, must no exceed 2147483647.
• The value when converted to the interval unit, must be multiple of the interval. For example, if
the interval is 3 ms, the pre-trigger time 1 second is not acceptable. You must then either fix
the interval or use another pre-trigger time.
If the pre-trigger time value you entered is invalid, an error message is displayed, when you click the
OK button. You have to acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid value or cancel the
operation.

Some of the error messages ask, if you want DriveWindow to find a proper value for you.

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If you click the Yes button, the value in the dialog box is changed from the value you entered to a value
suggested by DriveWindow.

So, you still have the opportunity to edit the value (or cancel the operation).
See Also: Common Trend Settings
Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

4.5 Setting Trigger Conditions

Trigger conditions tell the drive datalogger, when to trigger the datalogger. The setting is kept in the
drive, not in DriveWindow.
The trigger conditions cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in
the drive is not running.
Not all drives support all the trigger conditions. Trigger conditions not supported by a drive are disabled
(grayed).
Note the although many drives advertise support for enabling/disabling user triggering, they actually
never disable it.
Before changing trigger conditions, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the monitor, and
also the datalogger selected.

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To change the datalogger trigger conditions, either double-click the Trig Conditions field in the
datalogger settings pane, or select the Conditions command in the Trig Settings submenu of the
Datalogger menu.

A Triggering Conditions dialog box is presented with the present settings selected.

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Change the settings by selecting and unselecting the conditions, and click OK. If you want to cancel
the operation, click the Cancel button.

The new settings are written to the drive and, if the drive accepts them, they shown in the datalogger
settings pane.

Note that Falling Edge of level triggering is shown as Level only.

If, for some reason, the value could not be written to the drive or the drive did not accept it, an error
message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to acknowledge the error message and
the Triggering Conditions dialog box is presented again with your settings. You can now retry or cancel
the operation.

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See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

4.6 Setting Trigger Variable

Trigger variable tells the drive datalogger, which of the drive signals or parameters to use as the trigger
variable in case of level triggering. The setting is kept in the drive, not in DriveWindow.
Note that you can set the trigger variable even if level triggering is not enabled in the trigger conditions.
The trigger variable cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in
the drive is not running.
Before changing the trigger variable, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the monitor,
and also the datalogger selected.
To change the datalogger trigger variable, either double-click the Trig Variable field in the datalogger
settings pane, or select the Variable command in the Trig Settings submenu of the Datalogger menu.

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A Trig Variable dialog box is presented with the present trigger variable value (if any) shown in its edit
field.

Edit or enter a new trigger variable and click OK. The trigger variable is given as an OPC address
without the channel and node. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel button.

The new value is written to the drive and, if the drive accepts it, the descriptive name of the variable is
shown in the datalogger settings pane.

If, for some reason, the value could not be written to the drive or the drive did not accept it, an error
message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to acknowledge the error message and
the Trig Variable dialog box is presented again with your setting. You can now retry or cancel the
operation.

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4.6.1 Removing trigger variable

Note that removing the trigger variable may affect also other settings, especially trigger level and
trigger hysteresis, in the drive.
The trigger variable can be removed by clearing the edit field in the Trig Variable dialog box.

The trigger variable can also be removed also:

• Select the Trig Variable field in the datalogger settings pane.
• While focus is in the datalogger settings pane, either click the delete button in the standard
toolbar, select the Delete command in the Edit menu, or press the Del key.

Be careful not to unintentionally remove logged variables with this method. If some of the channels are
selected as well, the logged variables from those channels are also removed.

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See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

4.7 Setting Trigger Level

Trigger level tells the drive datalogger, what level to use in level triggering. The setting is kept in the
drive, not in DriveWindow.
Note that you can set the trigger level even if level triggering is not enabled in the trigger conditions.
However, if there is no trigger variable, trigger level cannot be set.
The trigger level cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in the
drive is not running.
Note that removing the trigger variable may affect also the trigger level setting in the drive.
Before changing the trigger level, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the monitor, and
also the datalogger selected.
To change the datalogger trigger level, either double-click the Trig Level field in the datalogger settings
pane, or select the Level command in the Trig Settings submenu of the Datalogger menu.

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A Trig Level dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

Edit or enter a new (real) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is written to the drive and, if the drive accepts it, is shown in the datalogger settings
pane.

If, for some reason, the value could not be written to the drive or the drive did not accept it, an error
message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to acknowledge the error message and
the Trig Level dialog box is presented again with your setting. You can now retry or cancel the
operation.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

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4.8 Setting Trigger Hysteresis

Trigger hysteresis tells the drive datalogger, how big hysteresis to use in level triggering. The setting is
kept in the drive, not in DriveWindow.
Note that you can set the trigger hysteresis even if level triggering is not enabled in the trigger
conditions. However, if there is no trigger variable, trigger hysteresis cannot be set.
The trigger hysteresis cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared, and the datalogger in
the drive is not running.
Note that removing the trigger variable may affect also the trigger hysteresis setting in the drive.
Before changing the trigger hysteresis, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the monitor,
and also the datalogger selected.
To change the datalogger trigger hysteresis, either double-click the Trig Hysteresis field in the
datalogger settings pane, or select the Hysteresis command in the Trig Settings submenu of the
Datalogger menu.

A Trig Hysteresis dialog box is presented with the present value shown in its edit field.

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Edit or enter a new (real) value and click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel
button.

The new value is written to the drive and, if the drive accepts it, is shown in the datalogger settings
pane.

If, for some reason, the value could not be written to the drive or the drive did not accept it, an error
message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You have to acknowledge the error message and
the Trig Hysteresis dialog box is presented again with your setting. You can now retry or cancel the
operation.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu

4.9 Setting and Removing Datalogger Variables

Datalogger variables are drive parameters and signals, which are logged by the drive datalogger.
Datalogger variables must reside in the same drive as the datalogger. What kind of parameters and
signals can be logged, is determined by the drive.
Datalogger variables cannot be changed unless the datalogger graph is cleared and the datalogger in
the drive is not running.

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Note that many drives do not allow a condition, in which if no signal or parameter is set to be logged.
Some drives may behave oddly and show some garbage, if no signal or parameter is set to be logged.
Others may show that the datalogger is not initialised. DriveWindow does not prevent you from
removing all variables, but be prepared for surprises, if you do that.
Also, many dataloggers do not allow non-logged channels between logged channels. DriveWindow
takes care of this by “shifting up” logged variables and their scaling values into new channels, when
you clear a channel, which is not the last in use. The unused channels are kept last by DriveWindow.
All logged values are uploaded as real numbers.
Before changing the datalogger variables, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the
monitor, and also the datalogger selected.
There are several ways to add and remove variables to be logged.

4.9.1 Adding and removing items selected in the item list pane

Usually you add and sometimes remove logged items by using the item list pane.
To use item list pane in adding items not yet logged and removing items now logged, you need to have
the items shown in the item list pane, and then:
• You need to have proper datalogger selected and shown.
• Select parameters and signals, which you want to add to or remove from the datalogger, in
the item list pane. They must reside in the same drive as the datalogger.
• While focus in the item list pane, either click the add/remove datalogger items button in the
logger toolbar, or select the Add/Remove Items command in the Datalogger menu.

Note that the OPC address is used to identify the parameter or signal, not the descriptive name shown
in the item list pane, when determining, if the item is already logged or not.
The images in front of the items in the item list pane do not change.
The descriptive names of the removed items disappear from the channels in the datalogger settings
pane, and such names of the added items appear in the settings. The descriptive name is possibly not
the same as shown in the item list pane, because it is always fetched from the drive.

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Note that the removal is done first, then the addition. When removing, the variables and their scaling
values are “shifted up”, if necessary, so that all free channels are last. The free channels are used in
addition. If there are more variables to add than there are free channels left after removal, the extra
items are not added. Also such selected items, which cannot be logged by the datalogger, are not
added.
The items added are not locked (as monitored items are) in the item list pane. If you want to lock them,
you have to do the locking yourself.

4.9.2 Removing items selected in the datalogger settings pane

The easiest way to remove items from a datalogger is using the datalogger settings pane.
To remove items currently in a datalogger:
• You need to have the datalogger selected and shown.
• Select channels, which you want to remove from the datalogger, in the datalogger settings
pane. Use Ctrl and Shift keys, if needed, in selection.
• While focus is in the datalogger settings pane, either click the delete button in the standard
toolbar, select the Delete command in the Edit menu, or press the Del key.

The descriptive names of the removed items disappear from the channels in the datalogger settings
pane and the variables with their scaling values are “shifted up”, if needed.

4.9.3 Setting and removing the variable of a channel

It is possible to set an item simultaneously to the desktop and into a datalogger channel. The same
feature can be used also to change the logged variable and remove it.

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You probably seldom use this feature. However, it is the only way to get the same item logged in
several channels (if you, for some reason, want to do that).
Note that if you are setting an empty channel, it is possible to set only the one with the lowest channel
number.
If you are setting an empty channel, you can use a parameter or signal, which resides in the same
drive as the datalogger, as a template in setting. To do so, select a single item in the item list pane.

Anyway, you need to have the datalogger selected and shown. Select the channel you want to set from
the Set Variable submenu of the Datalogger menu.

An Add Item to datalogger and Desktop dialog box is presented. If you are setting an empty channel
and had a valid item selected to be used as a template, both edit fields already have values, which you
can edit.

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If the channel you are setting is not empty, the current settings are in the edit fields.

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If the OPC address you gave is correct and the item exists, it is added into the item list pane and to the
datalogger channel you are setting. The descriptive name you gave is shown in the item list pane, but
the descriptive name, which will appear in the datalogger settings pane is fetched from the drive. The
previous item, if there was one, is removed from the datalogger.

If the OPC address is formally correct, but the drive does not accept it, your PC beeps when you click
OK, and the variable is not set.
If the OPC address is formally correct, but the item does not exist, your PC beeps when you click OK,
and the Add Item to Monitor and Desktop dialog box stays.
If the OPC address is not valid, an error message is displayed, when you click the OK button. You
have to acknowledge the error message and edit the invalid OPC address or cancel the operation.

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However, if you clear both edit fields, it is not an error, but any logged variable already in the channel
you are setting is removed from the datalogger. The descriptive name of the removed item disappears
from the channel in the datalogger settings pane, and the variables with their scaling values are
“shifted up”, if needed.

See Also: Common Trend Settings

Setting Datalogger
Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Settings
Datalogger Menu
Adding Items to the Desktop

5. Controlling Monitor
Before you can control the monitor, you need to have the monitor selected instead of the dataloggers.
You do the selection by clicking the Monitor tab in the trend settings pane.

Note that to be able to control the monitor, you need to have at least one item set to be monitored.
Note also that most of the monitor settings can be done only if the monitor has been cleared.
The monitor can be:
• Started
• Paused
• Continued
• Stopped
• Cleared

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Status of the monitor is not saved into a workspace, unless monitor data is also saved with it. When
monitor data is restored with the workspace is restored, the monitor is always stopped (or cleared, if it
was cleared while saving). The monitor settings are always restored from the workspace.
Note also that disconnecting the OPC Server, either explicitly or internally by DriveWindow in some
operations when restarting a drive, stops and clears the monitor. In addition, all monitored items are
removed from the monitor. None of the other settings are changed, however.

5.1.1 Start Monitor

The monitor can be started only if it is cleared.

To start the monitor, either click the start or continue monitoring button in the monitor toolbar, select
the Start command in the Monitor menu, or press Ctrl+M.

Note that if your monitoring mode is Fast, it may be that some of the monitored items cannot be
monitored. The backgrounds of such items in the monitor settings pane do not change to yellow.
The monitor starts running and the monitored item values are drawn in real time in the monitor display
pane.
In the running state it is possible to change the axis settings, but scrolling the x-axis and zooming
cannot be done.
Note that viewing dataloggers and minimizing DriveWindow do not interrupt monitoring. It is still
running, and the monitor display pane is up to date, when you return to view it.

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You may get one or more of the following warnings when starting the monitor. You have the option not
to start monitoring by clicking the No button.

5.1.2 Pause Monitor

The monitor can be paused only if it is running.

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To pause the monitor, either click the pause monitoring button in the monitor toolbar, select the Pause
command in the Monitor menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+P.

The backgrounds of the monitored items in the monitor settings pane stay yellow. Also, continue and
stop are enabled, but pause and clear are disabled.
Pause causes the monitor to stop updating the monitor display pane, but still continue collecting
monitored item values into a hidden history buffer. The monitor display pane can be viewed (scrolled,
zoomed, etc.) as if the monitor was stopped, when the monitor is paused.
The data collected into the hidden history buffer is drawn, when monitoring is continued. If the monitor
is stopped, however, the hidden history buffer is disregarded.

5.1.3 Continue Monitor

The monitor can be continued only if it is paused.

To continue the monitor, either click the start or continue monitoring button in the monitor toolbar,
select the Continue command in the Monitor menu, or press Ctrl+M.

Note that the start or continue monitoring button, the Start/Continue command position in the menu,
and the shortcut key Ctrl+M, are shared by starting and continuing the monitor.
The backgrounds of the monitored items in the monitor settings pane stay yellow. Also, stop and pause
are enabled, but start and clear are disabled.
Continue causes the monitor to draw the hidden history buffer collected during the pause. The monitor
resumes and the monitored item values are drawn in real time in the monitor display pane.
The data in the hidden history buffer is drawn, when monitoring is continued. If the monitor is stopped,
however, the hidden history buffer is disregarded.

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Note that if the hidden history buffer was filled during the pause, the oldest values in it have been
disregarded, and the monitor display pane is totally redrawn.
You may get the following warring when continuing the monitor, if you have changed the x-axis length.
You have the option not to continue monitoring by clicking the No button.

5.1.4 Stop Monitor

The monitor can be stopped only if it is running or paused.

To stop the monitor, either click the stop monitoring button in the monitor toolbar, select the Stop
command in the Monitor menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+M.

The backgrounds of the monitored items in the monitor settings pane are not yellow any more. Also,
clear is enabled, but start, stop, and pause are disabled.

Stop causes the monitor to stop monitoring, i.e., updating the monitor display pane and collecting
monitored item values are ceased. The monitor display pane can now be viewed scrolled, zoomed, etc.
Monitoring cannot be continued, only cleared.
Note that disconnecting the OPC Server, either explicitly or internally by DriveWindow in some
operations when restarting a drive, stops and clears the monitor.

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5.1.5 Clear Monitor

The monitor can be cleared only if it is stopped.

To clear the monitor, either click the clear monitor button in the monitor toolbar, or select the Clear
command in the Monitor menu.

Clear clears the trends in the monitor display pane. Also, zooming is reset. The monitor settings are
not changed, however.
Note that most of the monitor settings can be done only if the monitor has been cleared.
Note also that disconnecting the OPC Server, either explicitly or internally by DriveWindow in some
operations when restarting a drive, stops and clears the monitor.
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Monitor Menu
Monitor Toolbar
Trend Settings Pane
Monitor Settings

6. Controlling Datalogger
Before controlling a datalogger, you need to have dataloggers selected instead of the monitor, and also
the datalogger selected.
Controlling of a drive depends much on the drive, because the datalogger actually is in the drive.
Note that many drives do not allow controlling of a datalogger, if no signal or parameter is set to be
logged. Some drives may behave oddly and show some garbage, if no signal or parameter is set to be
logged.
Note also that most of the datalogger settings can be done only if the datalogger is not running. Also,
DriveWindow does not allow changing of many settings if the datalogger graph is not cleared after
uploading.
The actual datalogger commands are also items, which can be browsed, viewed, and changed as any
other items. However, if you are going to use the upper level datalogger handling functionality in
DriveWindow, you should not use the raw items.
A drive datalogger can be:
• Started
• Stopped
• Triggered
• Cleared

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• Uploaded
In addition, an uploaded datalogger graph can be cleared.
Note that drive datalogger commands can be given even after the datalogger is uploaded. Thus it is
possible to restart a datalogger while still viewing the previous results in DriveWindow.
The datalogger status and cause of trigger can be seen in the datalogger settings pane. Their display
can be put on-line and off-line. Some datalogger commands automatically set their display status on-
line or off-line. The on-line/off-line status is saved into and restored from a workspace.
When a workspace is restored in current version of DriveWindow, all datalogger graphs are cleared.
Note also that disconnecting and reconnecting the OPC Server, either explicitly or internally by
DriveWindow in some operations when restarting a drive, clears all datalogger graphs. In addition, all
datalogger settings not kept in drives are restored to their default values.

6.1.1 Start Datalogger

A datalogger can be started if it is not running and is initialised.

To start the current datalogger, either click the start datalogger button in the logger toolbar, or select
the Start command in the Datalogger menu.

When the datalogger is running, stop and trigger are enabled, but start and upload are disabled. Clear
is always enabled. Datalogger status field in the datalogger settings pane is also put on-line
(background turns yellow).
The datalogger starts running and collects data, until it stops either because of a trigger condition
happened, or it is commanded to stop.
Note that you are not able to change those datalogger settings, which are kept in the drive, while the
datalogger is running.
If, for some reason, the drive does not accept the datalogger starting command, your PC beeps.

6.1.2 Stop Datalogger

A datalogger can be stopped, if it is running.

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To start the current datalogger, either click the stop datalogger button in the logger toolbar, or select
the Stop command in the Datalogger menu.

When the datalogger is stopped, start and upload are enabled, but stop and trigger are disabled. Clear
is always enabled. Datalogger status field in the datalogger settings pane is also put off-line
(background is no more yellow).
The datalogger stops running and collecting data. The data collected thus far can be uploaded and
viewed in DriveWindow.
Note that you are now able to change all datalogger settings, even those, which are kept in the drive,
and cannot be changed, while the datalogger is running. Note that changing datalogger settings, which
are kept in the drive, clears the datalogger in the drive.
If, for some reason, the drive does not accept the datalogger stopping command, your PC beeps.

6.1.3 Trigger Datalogger

If a datalogger is running, it can be triggered by the user.

To trigger the current datalogger, either click the start datalogger button in the logger toolbar, or select
the Start command in the Datalogger menu.

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When the datalogger is triggered, trigger is disabled, stop stays enabled, and start and upload stay
disabled. Clear is always enabled. Datalogger is still running, but its status (if on-line) shows also that
the datalogger has been triggered.
You have thus the option to stop the datalogger before it is filled.
The datalogger stops automatically, after the proper amount of values has been collected after the
trigger. Its status then shows filled (if on-line). Trigger stays disabled, stop is disabled, but start and
upload are enabled. Clear is always enabled.
When the datalogger is no more running, the data collected can be uploaded and viewed in
DriveWindow.
Note that when the datalogger has stopped, you are able to change all datalogger settings, even those,
which are kept in the drive, and cannot be changed, while the datalogger is running. Note that
changing datalogger settings, which are kept in the drive, clears the datalogger in the drive.
If, for some reason, the drive does not accept the datalogger triggering command, your PC beeps.

6.1.4 Clear Datalogger

You can send the datalogger clearing command to a drive at any time. Most of the drives do not need
the datalogger to be cleared, because in them starting a datalogger also clears it.
To clear the current datalogger, either click the clear drive datalogger button in the logger toolbar, or
select the Clear command in the Datalogger menu.

Note that clearing the drive datalogger does not affect the already uploaded values shown in the
datalogger display pane. You have to clear the uploaded datalogger graph separately.
If, for some reason, the drive does not accept the datalogger triggering command, your PC beeps.

6.1.5 Upload Datalogger

A datalogger can be uploaded, if it is not running and is initialised.

Uploading means that the drive datalogger content is read and cached by DriveOPC, and
DriveWindow shows the selected, uploaded datalogger content in the datalogger display pane. When
datalogger selection is changed, the values are read from DriveOPC cache, not from the drive.

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To upload the current datalogger, either click the upload datalogger button in the logger toolbar, or
select the Upload command in the Datalogger menu.

When upload is executed, upload is disabled, graph clear is enabled, and other controls do not change
their enable status. Datalogger status field in the datalogger settings pane is also put off-line
(background is no more yellow). The data collected in the datalogger is uploaded and is shown in the
datalogger display pane.
However, if there is no data in the datalogger, an error message is shown, and uploading is aborted.

When the datalogger is uploaded, the current datalogger settings (except the common settings) in
DriveWindow are frozen, so the settings show the settings of the uploaded trend.
It is not possible to change datalogger setting other than the common settings while a datalogger is
uploaded and shown in the datalogger settings pane. You have to clear the datalogger graph to be able
to change the settings again.
When you have uploaded the datalogger, the Triggered by field in the datalogger settings pane is
frozen to show the condition at uploading time. It stays off-line until you clear the datalogger graph. The
status field in the datalogger settings pane shows the status at upload time, if it is put off-line, and
current status in the drive, if it is put on-line.
If the setting of x-axis length is improper (too short or long, or not multiple of the interval), uploading of
the datalogger automatically sets the x-axis length.
Y-axis minimum and/or maximum of a datalogger can also change automatically when the datalogger
is uploaded. If any of the uploaded values after scaling is smaller than the setting of y minimum, or
bigger than setting of y maximum, y minimum and/or maximum is adjusted to the smallest/biggest
value uploaded.

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Note! You need to have good knowledge of the behaviour of the drive datalogger. Some very old
drives may crash, if you try to upload the datalogger again before it has new data.
There are several drives, which do not give all the data with the first upload (actually one less than their
channel buffer size). In such cases, the triggering point (origin of the x-axis) is slightly wrong (one
measurement interval). Uploading a second time usually gives all the data.

6.1.6 Clear Datalogger Graph

When you are finished with viewing an uploaded datalogger in DriveWindow, you can clear the
datalogger graph. Clearing the graph enables you to change datalogger settings, if the datalogger is
not running.
If you have not started or cleared the drive datalogger, you can (in most drives) view the data again by
uploading it.
To clear the current datalogger graph, either click the clear datalogger graph button in the logger
toolbar, or select the Clear Graph command in the Datalogger menu.

When clear graph is executed, clear graph is disabled and, if the datalogger is not running, upload is
enabled
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Datalogger Menu
Logger Toolbar
Trend Settings Pane
Datalogger Settings

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7. Graph Preferences
Graph preferences are user selectable options, which affect displaying of trends. There is also an
option, which allows the user to select, how scaling is entered and displayed.
Graph preferences can be changed even if the OPC Server is not connected. However, they cannot be
changed while the monitor is running. You have to pause the monitor before you can change graph
preferences.
Note that graph preferences are not saved and restored with a workspace.
You can change graph preferences by selecting Preferences command in the Graph submenu of the
File menu.

The Graph Preferences tabbed dialog box is displayed. It has tabs for setting:
• Miscellaneous Graph Preferences
• Screen Colors and Line Styles
• Printer Line Styles
• Color Printer Colors and Line Styles
• Monitor Visualization Method
Any changes you made take effect when you click the OK button.
No changes are made in case you click the Cancel button.
See Also: What are Preferences

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7.1 Miscellaneous Graph Preferences

You can set miscellaneous graph preferences in the Graph Preferences dialog box by selecting the
Misc tab. Miscellaneous graph preferences concern both monitor and dataloggers.

Miscellaneous graph preferences are:

• Connection method, i.e., how to draw lines connecting adjacent drawing points.
• Scaling method to be used. You have the option to display and enter scaling either as
coefficient and offset or as values at y=100 and y=0.
• Whether to show scaled or unscaled values with the graph cursor. The selection can also be
made in the Graph Cursor dialog box shown by the Graph Cursor command in the View
menu.

7.1.1 Connection Method

We recommend that you use the linear connection method in case the trends are of analog signals.
If the signals are digital and you want to see the changes as vertical lines, you can use either the
leading or lagging step as connection method.
Note! Changing of the connection method requires that all the trends are redrawn from the beginning.
If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.

7.1.2 Scaling Method

The scaling method option does not affect drawing of the trends. It just affects the way the scales are
displayed and entered. Changing of the method does not change the actual scaling.

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If your scaling method is Coefficient and Offset, the coefficients and offsets are displayed as a formula
in form coefficient * x + offset in the trend settings pane. Also the values in the Channel Scaling dialog
box are shown and entered as coefficient and offset.

If your scaling method is Values at 100 and 0, the values at y=0 and y=100 are displayed within
brackets ([]), separated with comma in the trend settings pane. Also the values in the Channel Scaling
dialog box are shown and entered as values at y=100 and at y=0.

Note that internally DriveWindow always handles the scaling as coefficient and offset.

7.1.3 Cursor Values

The cursor values option does not affect drawing of the trends. It just affects the line style and the way
numerical values are displayed with the graph cursor.
The selection can also be made in the Graph Cursor dialog box shown by the Graph Cursor command
in the View menu.

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Line style of the graph cursor is dotted, if scaled values are shown.

Line style of the graph cursor is dashed, if unscaled values are shown.

7.2 Screen Colors and Line Styles

You can set colors and line styles of trends shown on the screen by selecting the Screen tab in the
Graph Preferences dialog box. Selection of screen colors and line styles concern both monitor and
dataloggers.

You can restore the default settings into the dialog box by clicking the Default button. Note that it just
shows the default settings. Any changes you made in the Graph Preferences dialog box take effect
when you click the OK button.
Not that changing screen colors or line styles does not require redrawing of the trends. Thus it is a
quick operation.

7.2.1 Line Style

You can see all the line styles by clicking the drop-down button of one of channels.

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You select a line style by clicking it in the drop-down list.

By selecting line style None for a channel, you can hide the channel from the trend display pane. Its
value is still shown with the graph cursor, however, unless you hide it to by unselecting it in the Graph
Cursor dialog box.

7.2.2 Color

You can see all the colors by clicking the drop-down button of one of channels and then scrolling with
the vertical scroll bar.

You select a color by clicking it in the drop-down list.

All colors that the graphical drawing package can use are present. Note that some color/background
combinations may not be seen properly.
See Also: Graph Preferences

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7.3 Printer Line Styles

You can set line styles of trends printed by a black and white printer by selecting the Printer tab in the
Graph Preferences dialog box. Selection of black and white printer line styles concern both monitor
and dataloggers.

You can restore the default settings into the dialog box by clicking the Default button. Note that it just
shows the default settings. Any changes you made in the Graph Preferences dialog box take effect
when you click the OK button.
Note that the settings are in effect only when you have unchecked the Print in Color check field in the
Edit Graph Titles (shown when you start printing a graph).

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7.3.1 Line Style

You can see all the line styles by clicking the drop-down button of one of channels.

You select a line style by clicking it in the drop-down list.

7.4 Color Printer Colors and Line Styles

You can set colors and line styles of trends printed by a color printer by selecting the Color Printer tab
in the Graph Preferences dialog box. Selection of color printer colors and line styles concern both
monitor and dataloggers.

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You can restore the default settings into the dialog box by clicking the Default button. Note that it just
shows the default settings. Any changes you made in the Graph Preferences dialog box take effect
when you click the OK button.
Note that the settings are in effect only when you have checked the Print in Color check field in the Edit
Graph Titles (shown when you start printing a graph).

7.4.1 Line Style

You can see all the line styles by clicking the drop-down button of one of channels.

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You select a line style by clicking it in the drop-down list.

7.4.2 Color

You can see all the colors by clicking the drop-down button of one of channels and then scrolling with
the vertical scroll bar.

You select a color by clicking it in the drop-down list.

All colors that the graphical drawing package can use are present. Note that some color/background
combinations may not be seen properly when printed.
See Also: Graph Preferences

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7.5 Monitor Visualization Method

You can select, how the drawing points of monitor channels are deducted from the measured values,
by selecting the Monitor tab in the Graph Preferences dialog box. Selection of monitor visualization
method concerns only the monitor. You can select the method for analog and digital signals separately.

Monitor visualization methods are:

• Interpolation. A drawing point is calculated by linear interpolation.
• Nearest. Value of a drawing point is the nearest measured value.
• Leading. Value of a drawing point is the next measured value.
• Lagging. Value of a drawing point is the previous measured value.
We recommend that you select interpolation for analog signals. You should also use the linear
connection method.
For digital signalsyou should not use interpolation. Typically, you use the Nearest method for them.
Note! Changing of the visualization method requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from the
beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.
See Also: Graph Preferences

8. Viewing Trends
Trends of the monitor and dataloggers are displayed in the trend display pane.

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Although the trends are quite similar and there is not much difference in viewing them, there are some
differences, which are good to know.
• Monitor data is collected in your computer by DriveWindow, but dataloggers collect data in
drives.
• Timing of measurements is much better in dataloggers. Interval is actually considered to be
constant. Monitor measurement timing, however, varies because of load caused by the
operating system kernel and high priority programs. For this reason, monitored values are
time stamped, and the drawn values are estimated from measured values. How the
estimation is done depends on the monitor visualization method selected in graph
preferences.
• Moment of starting the monitor is the X-axis origin in monitoring. In dataloggers, x-axis origin
is the triggering moment, which means that values collected before the triggering moment are
shown having negative time value.
• Monitor trends are drawn and updated even when the monitor is running, but datalogger
trends have to be uploaded, when a datalogger is not running.
• Size of a datalogger channel buffer is fixed. You can set the size of the history buffer of the
monitor yourself. Its size is in practice limited by the amount of (virtual) virtual memory in your
PC. Thus, the monitor usually contains much more data than a datalogger.
Note! Changing of the scaling of a monitor channel requires that the monitor trends are redrawn from
the beginning. If you have lot of monitored data, this can take a long time.
If you are examining phenomena happening in sub-second level, we recommend that you use a
datalogger, if possible. Slower phenomena can be traced using the monitor.
When you are viewing the trends, you can:
• Change the common settings, which affect the display
• Change graph preferences, which affect the outlook of the trends shown
• Scroll
• Zoom
• Use the graph cursor

8.1.1 Graph Preferences

Graph Preferences allow you to change outlook (colors, line styles, etc.) of the trends. Please see
Graph Preferences for details.

8.1.2 Selecting Monitor or Datalogger

The trend display pane is shared. You select, whether to look at monitor trends or datalogger trends by
clicking the Monitor or the Datalogger tab in the trend settings pane.

If you want to display a datalogger, you have to select it, too. If the drive has only one datalogger, it is
enough just to select the drive in the browse tree pane.

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8.1.3 Zooming Levels

If zooming is enabled, you are able to zoom in when viewing the trends. Zoom in is not limited to one
level. You can zoom in further, even if you have already zoomed. In practice, there is no limit on the
number of zooming levels.
The behaviour of a zooming level is such that any changes you make in x-axis length, y-axis minimum,
y-axis maximum, or scrolling position, affect the current zooming level only. When you zoom in, current
values are saved in the current zooming level, and a new zooming level is created. When zooming out,
the values are restored.

Note that by changing settings of x-axis length, y-axis minimum, and/or y-axis maximum, it is possible
that current zooming level shows a bigger area than its parent level, although originally it was smaller.
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Browse Tree Pane
Trend Settings Pane
Trend Display Pane
Common Trend Settings
Graph Preferences
Printing Trends
Adapting Y Axis

8.2 Scrolling Trends

You can scroll trends horizontally and vertically. Scrolling is done using the scrollbars in the trend
display pane.

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The vertical scrollbar is always there. However, to be able to scroll, you need to have an OPC Server
connected. The horizontal scrollbar is visible only when horizontal scrolling is possible.

8.2.1 Vertical scrolling

Vertical scrolling actually changes y-axis minimum and maximum simultaneously. Their values are also
shown in the trend settings pane.
Scrolling is done by using the short vertical scrollbar at the lower left corner in the trend display pane.
Scrolling adds or subtracts the distance between two tick marks to or from both y minimum and
maximum.

8.2.2 Horizontal scrolling

Amount of data collected by the monitor or a datalogger can be bigger than can be shown with the
current setting of the x-axis length. Horizontal scrolling makes it possible the view also values not
currently shown.

Horizontal scrolling does not change the length of the x-axis. The horizontal scrollbar is visible only,
when scrolling is possible.
In the monitor, horizontal scrolling is possible only when the monitor is stopped or paused.

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Scrolling is done by using the horizontal scrollbar at the lower part in the trend display pane.
The amount of scrolling depends on the length of the x-axis or the distance between the tick marks.
If you scroll by clicking a scroll arrow at the end of the scrollbar, the amount the x-axis position is sifted
is the distance between two tick marks

In some extreme cases, however, the amount of shifting may be the size of the interval.
If you scroll by clicking the scrollbar shaft, the amount the x-axis position is sifted is the x-axis length.

Of course, you can also scroll by dragging the scroll box (thumb).

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8.3 Zooming Trends

When viewing the trends, you can zoom inwards, outwards, and reset zooming to the base level.
In the monitor, zooming is possible only when the monitor is stopped or paused. When a paused
monitor is continued, zooming is automatically reset to the base level.

8.3.1 Zooming In

Zooming in saves current x-axis length, y-axis minimum and maximum, and x-axis scroll position into
current zooming level, and creates a new one.

X-axis length, y-axis minimum and maximum, and x-axis scroll position usually change. Value changes
also affect the trend settings pane.
To be able to zoom in, you need to have the zoom in/graph cursor toggle in zoom in state. You can
check or change the toggle either from the standard toolbar (zoom in graph button must be down) or
from the View menu (Zoom In toggle must be marked). You can change the toggle also by pressing
the Ctrl+Shift+Z key.

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Zoom in is done by dragging the mouse in the trend display pane, so that at least some of the
rectangle shown while dragging is inside the trend drawing area (area limited by the axes).

Note that while the rectangle is shown, DriveWindow stays topmost on the screen. Only an application
using the same feature (like Windows Task Manager) can overlay DriveWindow at that time. If it
happens that such an application overlays the rectangle, behavior of the zoom operation can not be
determined.
When you release the mouse button, the rectangular area is used to approximately determine new x-
axis length and y-axis minimum and maximum in a new zooming level. The new values are made from
the rectangle by rounding to a “smooth” value. The new values are also show in the trend settings
pane.

Note that it is possible that the rounded values of x-axis length and y-axis minimum and maximum are
the same as before zooming. If that is the case, you can use the trend settings to change them.

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8.3.2 Zooming Out

Zooming out destroys the current zooming level and restores x-axis length, y-axis minimum and
maximum, and x-axis scroll position from the previous level.

X-axis length and y-axis minimum and maximum value changes also affect the trend setting pane.
To zoom out, either click the zoom out graph button in the standard toolbar, or select the Zoom Out
command in the View menu. Note that you cannot zoom out, if you are already at the base zooming
level.

Note that state of the zoom in/graph cursor toggle does not affect zoom out.

8.3.3 Zooming Reset

Zooming reset destroys all other zooming levels than the base zooming level and restores x-axis
length, y-axis minimum and maximum, and x-axis scroll position from the base level.

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X-axis length and y-axis minimum and maximum value changes also affect the trend setting pane.
To reset zooming, either click the reset graph zoom button in the standard toolbar, or select the Zoom
Reset command in the View menu. Note that you cannot reset zooming, if you are already at the base
zooming level.

Note that state of the zoom in/graph cursor toggle does not affect zoom reset.
See Also: Viewing Trends
View Menu
Scrolling Trends
Using Graph Cursor
Monitor and Dataloggers
Trend Settings Pane
Trend Display Pane
Common Trend Settings
Restoring Default Settings
Adapting Y Axis

8.4 Using Graph Cursor

When viewing the trends, you have the option to show a graph cursor in the trend display pane.
In the monitor, the graph cursor can be shown only when the monitor is stopped or paused. When a
paused monitor is continued, the cursor disappears automatically.

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To be able to have the graph cursor visible, you must not have the zoom in/graph cursor toggle in
zoom in state. You can check or change the toggle either from the standard toolbar (zoom in graph
button must be up) or from the View menu (Zoom In toggle must not be marked). You can change the
toggle also by pressing the Ctrl+Shift+Z key.

You can display the graph cursor by clicking the drawing area (area limited by the axes) in the trend
display pane. Note that the cursor is also printed, if visible.

The cursor is a vertical line with the following numerical values:

• Time at the point of the cursor (written vertically).
• For each trend, value at the point of cursor, and the channel number within brackets (if there
is more than one trend).
If unscaled values are displayed, the display formats of the values depend on desktop preferences
selected. However, display formats of selected channels can be (temporarily) changed.

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Line style of the cursor is dotted, if the numerical values are shown as scaled.

Line style of the cursor is dashed, if the numerical values are shown as unscaled.

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To select the scaling type of numerical values and individually hide or show a numerical value by the
Graph Cursor, select the Graph Cursor command in the View menu.

The Graph Cursor dialog box is shown. Select proper settings and click OK. You can try the effect of
the settings without closing the dialog box by clicking the Apply button.

Note that the scaling type of graph cursor numerical values can also be selected in graph preferences.
The feature is useful, if you have the graph cursor at a point, where the trends are near each other,
and the numerical values are overlapping, and are thus not readable.
You can move the cursor horizontally by dragging, or by clicking another point within the trend drawing
area.
The graph cursor can be hidden by clicking the trend display pane outside the drawing area (area
outside the axes), or by changing to zoom in mode by toggling Zoom In in the View menu or clicking
the zoom in graph button in the standard toolbar.

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If quality of a monitored value for some reason is bad, the cursor shows its value as (negative)
indefinite.

If a monitor or datalogger value after scaling overflows (does not fit into a four byte real number), the
scaled cursor shows its value as (positive or negative) infinite.

If a monitor value cannot be converted to real (you ar trying to monitor a string type of value, for
example), the cursor shows its value as (negative) not-a-number.

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8.5 Graph Cursor Options

If you want to change graph cursor options, please select the Graph Cursor command of the View
menu. We recommend that you make the graph cursor visible in the trend display pane before starting
the command.

The Graph Cursor dialog box is shown.

8.5.1 Buttons

The Graph Cursor dialog box contains the following buttons:

• OK: The current settings are applied and the dialog box is closed.
• Cancel: The dialog box is closed.
• Apply: The current settings are applied.
The Apply button is useful in finding proper settings because you can see the effects. If you have the
graph cursor visible in the trend display pane, Apply shows the effect, but you can still change the
settings.

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8.5.2 Showing or Hiding Numerical Values

The Graph Cursor dialog box contains check fields for showing or hiding the following numerical values
with the graph cursor:
• Time. Shows or hides the x-axis value at the top end of the graph cursor.
• Channel 1, ... Channel 6. Shows or hides a numerical value at the trend of monitor or
datalogger channel 1, ... 6.

8.5.3 Scaled or Unscaled Numerical Values

The Graph Cursor dialog box contains also the Cursor Values option. It affects the line style and the
way numerical values are displayed with the graph cursor.
The selection can also be made in the Graph Preferences dialog box shown by the Preferences
command in the Graph submenu of the File menu.
Line style of the graph cursor is dotted, if the numerical values are shown as scaled.

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Line style of the graph cursor is dashed, if the numerical values are shown as unscaled.

If unscaled values are displayed, the display formats of the values depend on desktop preferences
selected. However, display formats of selected channels can be (temporarily) changed.
Note that the graph cursor is also printed and copied to the clipboard.
See Also: Using Graph Cursor
Graph Preferences
Changing Display Format of Graph Cursor Values

8.6 Changing Display Format of Graph Cursor Values

Normally, unscaled numerical values shown with he graph cursor in the trend display pane are
displayed in the format system selected in desktop preferences, i.e., either in classic DriveWindow
format or operator panel format. Note that operator panel format is available in new drive models only.
Scaled numerical values are always shown in classic DriveWindow format.
However, a user can temporarily change display format of selected channels. The changed format
overrides any selection made in desktop preferences, but is valid only as long as the measured or
logged variable of the channel is not changed. If a measured item is removed from the monitor or from
a datalogger and then restored, for example, the normal mechanism for displaying the value is used.
The currently changed formats are saved and restored with a workspace, however.
Before changing of display format make sure that the graph cursor values are shown unscaled.

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To change display format of unscaled graph cursor values in the trend display pane:
• In the trend settings pane, select channels, display format of which you want to change. Use
Ctrl and Shift keys, if needed, in selection.
• While input focus is still in the trend settings pane, either press F3 key on the keyboard, or
select the Change Display Format command in the View menu.

The Change Display Format dialog box is displayed.

Select a format and number of decimals (if applicable) and click OK.

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Now the graph cursor values of the selected channels in the trend display pane are displayed in the
new format.

Note that the operator panel display format of some parameters in some drives may not agree with the
type of the value used by the drive in communication. The type of the value used in communications is
also used in drawing a trend. Thus the graph cursor value shown may not agree with the value drawn.
Typically the graph cursor value may show a negative value, but the value drawn is a big positive
value. The reason is that the unsigned value given by the drive is asked to be displayed as a signed
graph cursor value.
Note that if a value cannot be displayed in the selected format, it is displayed in classic DriveWindow
format. However, the format selected in desktop preferences is overridden also in this case.
The possible display format selections are:
1. The classic DriveWindow format. Select this in case operator panel format is selected in
desktop preferences, but you want to see a value in the classic DriveWindow format.
2. Fixed point format. Select this and enter number of decimal digits in case you want to see
more decimal digits, for example.
3. Exponent format. Select this and enter number of decimal digits in case a value is not zero
but its absolute value is very small (<1E-3) or very big (>1E6).
4 Decimal integer format.
5. Hexadecimal format.
6. Binary format.
7. Adaptive programming format. Select this in case the drive does not have operator panel
format available, but you know that the drawn items are handled as adaptive programming
values in the drive.
8. The operator panel format. Select this in case operator panel format is not selected in desktop
preferences, but you want to see a value in the operator panel format, and the drive supports
it, too.

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8.7 Trends of Analog vs Digital Signals

If you want to optimise the outlook of trends, you should use different graph preferences for analog and
digital signals.

8.7.1 Analog Signals

Analog signals are best shown with linear connection method.

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Visualization method of monitored analog signals should be interpolation.

A trend of an analog signal looks with digital signal settings like the following:

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But with analog signal settings it looks like:

8.7.2 Digital Signals

Digital signals are best shown with other than linear connection method.

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Visualization method of monitored digital signals should be other than interpolation (usually Nearest).

A trend of a digital signal looks with analog signal settings like the following:

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But with digital signal settings it looks like:

Anyway, a Save As dialog box is displayed.

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9.1.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:

• From Save in, browse into the drive and directory, into which you want to save the graph file
• Enter the name of the graph file into File name or, if you want to replace an existing file, click
the filename you want to replace
• Click Save and a file comment is requested

If the file already exists, confirmation to replace it is asked.

9.1.2 When the File Comment dialog box is displayed:

The comment field is empty by default.

• Enter, add, edit, or accept the comment in the edit field
• Click OK, and saving starts

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Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
See Also: Save As Dialog
Restoring Trends
How to Save Workspace
Workspace Preferences

10. Restoring Trends

If monitor and/or uploaded dataloggers are saved with a workspace, they are restored with the
workspace with proper settings of workspace preferences.
However, we explain here restoring of trends from a graph (.dwt) file. See How to Restore Workspace
and Workspace Preferences for restoring trends saved with a workspace.
Saved trends are actually incomplete off-line workspaces, which contain just enough information to
restore the graphs saved within them. Thus it is possible to open a graph (.dwt) file as a workspace,
too.
Note! Workspace (.dww) and graph (.dwt) files can contain binary data. Never edit a workspace or
graph file. Also, if you are copying such a file, use a binary copying program (use /b with COPY,
for example).
The restored trends can be viewed as if they were just collected. However, if the trends are restored
from a graph file or from a workspace saved for off-line, DriveWindow goes off-line.
Instead of first starting DriveWindow and then opening the graph file, you can in Windows NT Explorer,
for example, double click the graph file. DriveWindow starts in off-line mode and opens immediately
the trends saved in it.

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Otherwise, if you are going to restore trends from a graph while starting up DriveWindow, you need not
to connect the OPC Server. So, click Cancel, when the Select OPC Server dialog box is displayed.

Now that DriveWindow is disconnected, you can go off-line and restore your trends by opening a graph
file.
If you want to go off-line and restore trends from a graph file during a DriveWindow session, just open
the graph (.dwt) file.
See Also: Opening a Graph File
Saving Trends
How to Restore Workspace
Workspace Preferences
Off-line Mode

10.1 Opening a Graph File

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10.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed:

• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the graph file resides
• Click the graph file you want to open
• Click Open and DriveWindow goes off-line and restores the trend or trends from the graph file

Note! You can also enter the name of the graph file into File name, with or without a directory path.

If DriveWindow is currently on-line, you are prompted about disconnecting the OPC Server (and about
releasing control, if control is taken).

10.2 Viewing and Editing the File Comment

When you have opened a graph file, you can view and edit the file comment that was saved with it.

Note! Because a graph file is actually a special workspace file, you can view and edit the comment as
a workspace file comment, too.
A File Comment dialog box is presented. It shows the comment in its edit field. The comment text is
selected, which means that if you just start typing, the previous text is replaced by your new comment.

Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
When you are done with editing, click the OK button. Click the Cancel button, if you do not want to
change the comment.
See Also: Saving Trends
How to Restore Workspace

11. Printing Trends

If you have a printer available, you are able to print the trends currently displayed in the trend display
pane. Printing of a running monitor is not possible, however.

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11.1.1 Printing without a printer

If you do not have a printer connected, but you have a printer driver installed, which allows you to print
to a file, you can print to files. Later, when you have the printer connected, you can copy the files to the
printer. For example, in DOS prompt, give command:
Copy C:\Temp\MyPrint.prn/b LPT1:
If you do not have a printer driver, or your printer driver is not able to print to a file, we recommend that
you install Adobe Acrobat PDF Printer (included in Adobe Acrobat), which allows you to print to a file in
PDF format. Some other printer driver with such kind of feature will also do the job.

11.1.2 Preferences for printing

In graph preferences you can control outlook of the printed trends. You can change colors of the trends
(color printer only) and line styles.
The preferences are separate for color and black-and-white printer.

11.1.3 Setting up the printer

DriveWindow uses the default printer with its current setup in printing.
The default printer can also be set and its setting viewed and changed by DriveWindow. It is usually
enough to do the setup once in a DriveWindow session before printing the first time.
To set up the printer, select the Printer Setup command in the File menu.

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A Print Setup dialog box is presented. Now you can select the printer, paper size, orientation, and
source. You can also do printer dependent adjustments by clicking the Properties button.

Note that when a graph is printed, it is automatically expanded to fill the printing area of the selected
paper. If your printer supports A4 and A3, for example, doubling the size of the paper from A4 to A3
magnifies the printout to double, too.
You probably want the print-out to look the same as it is displayed on your screen. So, you should set
the paper orientation to landscape.

11.1.4 Printing

Note that printing of a running monitor is not possible.

If you have the graph cursor visible, it is printed, too. The scrollbars are not printed.

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To print the trends currently displayed in the trend display pane, select the Print command in the Graph
submenu of the File menu.

An Edit Graph Titles dialog box is presented.

If you have a black and white printer, please uncheck the Print in Color check field.
If you have a color printer, please check the Print in Color check field.
DriveWindow has filled the edit fields with its default values. If you wish, you can edit your own titles (or
comments) into the edit fields of the dialog box. They will be located at the upper part of the print-out.
When you are ready, click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel button.
A dialog box, which allows you to cancel the printing, is shown while DriveWindow is printing.

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In addition of the trends, the print-out contains the titles at the upper part, and explanations about the
variables, how they are drawn, and their scaling in the lower part.

12. Exporting Trends

Exporting of trends means making them available for other applications. When you do the exporting,
the trends exported are those currently displayed in the trend display pane.
The simplest form of exporting the currently shown trends is copying of them to the clipboard. You can
then paste the copied trends into another application, as long as the application supports pasting of
graphics.
In addition to support of copying trends to the clipboard, DriveWindow has the capability of exporting
trends to a file.

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12.1 Copying Trends to the Clipboard

Occasionally you may want to paste trends into another application. To do so, you have to copy the
trends into the clipboard first.
To copy the trends currently displayed in the trend display pane to the clipboard, either select the Copy
Graph command in the Edit menu, or select the Copy command in the Graph submenu in the File
menu.

The currently displayed graph is copied to the clipboard. In the clipboard, the items are in picture
format.

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If you have an application, which understands the picture format, you can easily paste the items into
such an application (Paint, Word, or Excel, for example).

12.2 Exporting Trends to a File

The exported file has filename extension TXT. It contains (in ASCII format) information about currently
shown trends in so called tab separated format.
Note that an exported file is not meant for humans to read. Because it is for other applications, the
accuracy of values is very big. Note also that the decimal symbol defined in the regional settings is
used. So, extra care is required in exchanging exported files with other countries.
The tab separated format is understood by many applications, by Word and Excel, for example, and
can be easily imported in such kind of applications.
To export the currently shown trends to a file, select the Export command in the Graph submenu in the
File menu.

An Export Graph to File is presented.

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When the dialog box is displayed:

• From Save in, browse into the drive and directory, into which you want to export the currently
shown trends.
• Enter the name of the export file into File name or, if you want to replace an existing file, click
the filename you want to replace
• Click Save and an Export Graph dialog box is presented.
If the file already exists, confirmation to replace it asked, when you click Save.

The Export Graph dialog box allows you to select:

• Which of the channels to export. Note that channels not monitored or logged are grayed.
• How many samples to export.
• Whether to export the raw samples or shown points.
In addition, you can edit or add a comment.

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If you select first or last, an additional Samples field is shown.

If you select range, two additional fields (From and To) are shown.

Note that selecting all or visible also changes the Samples, From, and To fields to corresponding (all or
visible) number of samples and to starting and ending point, although the fields are not shown.
Also, changing measured/shown changes the Samples field, whether it is visible or not.
So, it is better to edit the Samples or From and To fields after selecting the first/last/range and
measured/shown.
Note that the comment actually consists of one line, although it automatically wraps and scrolls within
the edit field. Pressing the Enter key is actually the same as clicking the OK button.
While editing, you can use the normal Windows shortcut and editing keys like the arrow keys, Home,
End, Del, etc. keys, with or without Ctrl and/or Shift key down. Note, however, that pressing the Esc
key is same than clicking the Cancel button.
When you are ready, click OK. If you want to cancel the operation, click the Cancel button.

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12.2.1 Examples of exported trends

Note that contents of the exported files are quite similar, whether the monitor or a datalogger is
exported. Exporting the monitor as measured differs most from the others, because the time stamp is
exported for each sample of each exported channel.
The following shows exporting of two monitor channels as measured.

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When imported (opened) into Excel and adjusting widths of channels, the result is:

The first two lines contain the file identification tag and the comment.
The next two lines show the selections made in the Export Graph dialog box. An empty line separates
them from the seven lines containing monitor settings other than monitored variables, but including the
time at x-axis origin.
The channel settings follow an empty line. After them there is an empty line and a title line.
The rest contains the time stamps and unscaled monitored values. Note that the time stamps are
relative to the x-axis origin.

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The following shows exporting of the same two monitor channels as shown.

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When imported (opened) into Excel and adjusting widths of channels, the result is:

The beginning of the file contains the same information as in case the export was done as measured.
The end part, however, does not include time stamps, but there is a common time for all channel
values. The values are scaled, too.

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The following shows exporting of the two datalogger channels as measured.

When imported (opened) into Excel and adjusting widths of channels, the result is:

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The beginning of the file contains the similar information as in case the monitor export was done as
shown.
There are differences, however. The file identification tag contains also the OPC address of the
datalogger. There is no x-axis origin time.
Because the values are as measured, they are unscaled. The only difference between a datalogger
exported as measured and as shown is that the values in the previous case are unscaled, but in the
latter they are scaled.
See Also: Exporting Trends
Graph Submenu
Copying Trends to the Clipboard
Handling of Exported Files
How to Export Parameters

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Chapter 7 - OPC Server

Contents
1. What is OPC Server .....................................................................................................................7-1

2. Connecting to OPC Server..........................................................................................................7-2

2.1 Local Connection ....................................................................................................................7-3
2.2 Remote Connection ................................................................................................................7-5
2.3 Off-line Connection .................................................................................................................7-6

3. Information about OPC Server ...................................................................................................7-7

4. Viewing and Changing OPC Settings ........................................................................................7-8

5. Disconnecting OPC Server .........................................................................................................7-9

5.1.1 Automatic disconnecting of the OPC Server .................................................................7-11

1. What is OPC Server

An OPC Server is a software module, which implements OPC data access specification made by OPC
Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org). OPC stands for “OLE for Process Control”.
In principle, DriveWindow is able to act as a user interface for any OPC Server.
However, DriveWindow contains many drive dependent features, which require that the OPC Server is
DriveOPC. DriveOPC is included in the installation of DriveWindow. When you install DriveWindow,
you get also DriveOPC installed.

DriveOPC can be used also remotely through DCOM. DriveWindow has the ability to connect to a
remote OPC Server, too.

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OPC Server

Internally, DriveWindow (since version 2.10) uses another OPC Server, OfflineOPC. It is used for
saving graphs and for off-line as well as restoring graphs or simulating drives.
There can be two versions of an OPC Server:
• In-process server, which is a DLL. It can be used only locally.
• Local server, which is an EXE. It is used at the remote end, but can also be used locally.
Normally, DriveWindow uses locally the in-process server. There is only an in-process version of
OfflineOPC.
The OPC Server is not statically connected. The connection must be requested by the user. The user
must also select the Server and the PC, which to connect. However, a user should never connect
directly to OfflineOPC.
Disconnecting is usually also requested by the user.
Note that you can use DriveWindow as a remote client even if you do not have DDCS hardware
installed locally.
See Also: DriveOPC
OfflineOPC
Off-line Mode
Off-line Connection

2. Connecting to OPC Server

Most operations done in DriveWindow require that you have connected to an OPC Server. Although, in
principle, DriveWindow is able to act as a user interface for any OPC Server, it is required that the
OPC Server is DriveOPC.
Note that you are able to open a parameter file and work with it without a connection to an OPC
Server.
Note also that when you are saving and restoring a workspace, connection is restored, too. Currently
connected OPC Server is disconnected, if needed. Opening a graph file or a workspace saved for off-
line connects to OfflineOPC instead of a real OPC Server.
Note that some DriveWindow operations require restarting of a drive. Restarting a drive initiated by
DriveWindow does an internal disconnecting and reconnecting of the OPC Server.
You are asked to connect to an OPC Server when DriveWindow is starting, unless you started
DriveWindow by double clicking a file in NT Explorer (for example).
If you are going to restore a workspace, click the Cancel button, and then open the workspace.
If you are going to handle system software through the local DriveOPC, we recommend that you do not
connect, but click the Cancel button
If you are not connected to an OPC Server, you can request to be connected by selecting Network
Servers from the Network menu or by pressing Ctrl+N.

Note that if you already have connected to an OPC Server, you have to disconnect the current server
first.

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OPC Server

Never connect directly to OfflineOPC.

A Select OPC Server dialog box is presented:

If there are several OPC Servers listed, select ABB.SMP by clicking it.
How to proceed, depends on, whether you want to connect to the local or a remote OPC Server.

2.1 Local Connection

If you want to connect locally, select ABB.SMP by clicking it, and click the OK button, when the Select
OPC Server dialog box is presented:

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OPC Server

Note that depending on your operating system and how it is configured, it may also be possible to
connect to the local server (EXE) “remotely”. Typically, connecting remotely to \\localhost or 127.0.0.1,
actually connects to the local server in the same PC.
Connecting takes for a while, because DriveOPC identifies the DDCS network. The cursor turns to
hour-glass and the status bar informs you about connecting.

If you do not have DDCS hardware installed in your local PC, the communication library gives you an
error message.

However, connection to the DriveOPC is established also in this case, but, of course, you cannot see
any drives. So, you need to disconnect the OPC Server before trying a new connection.
Since version 2.01 of DriveWindow (version 2.02 of DriveOPC), if another application program is
already using the DDCS hardware, the communication library gives you an error message.

In older versions, or if DriveOPC is configured to be used remotely, no message is shown. Connection

to the DriveOPC is established, however, but you cannot see any drives. So, you need to disconnect
the OPC Server before trying a new connection.
Anyway, the current OPC Server without any PC indication is shown in the title bar:

2.2 Remote Connection

If you want to connect remotely, select ABB.SMP by clicking it, when the Select OPC Server dialog box
is presented.
Mark the check field “From a Remote PC” by clicking it.
Enter the fully qualified domain name, the IP address, or the UNC name of the remote computer into
the edit field, and click the OK button:

Note that depending on your operating system and how it is configured, it may also be possible to
connect to the local server (EXE) “remotely”. Typically, connecting remotely to \\localhost or 127.0.0.1,
actually connects to the local server in the same PC.
Connecting takes for a while, because of establishing the DCOM and because DriveOPC identifies the
DDCS network (unless it is already running because of another client). The cursor turns to hour-glass
and the status bar informs you about connecting.

If you are trying to use DriveWindow user interface while it is communicating with the remote PC, the
operating system may give you an error message. If so, click the Retry button to continue.

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If the remote computer does not exist, it is down, or it is not configured properly for remote use (RPC
service has not been started), you will get an error message.

If you are not allowed to access the remote computer, you will get an error message.

If connecting succeeded, the current OPC Server with the remote PC indication is shown in the title
bar:

However, note that connection is made even if the remote OPC Server is not able to use the
communication hardware (it is currently used by some other application, for example). DriveWindow
just does not show any drives in such a case.
See Also: Connecting to OPC Server
Local Connection

2.3 Off-line Connection

Since version 2.10, DriveWindow is able to work also off-line by the help of OfflineOPC.
You never connect directly to OfflineOPC. DriveWindow goes off-line when you either restore a
workspace that was saved for off-line, or open a saved graph file (.dwt).
In off-line mode the look and feel of DriveWindow are the same as if it was really connected to drives.

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OPC Server

You can differentiate between on-line and off-line mode by looking at the Network (OPC) server in the
title bar of DriveWindow. In off-line mode, the server name is ABB.OfflineOPC, while in on-line mode it
is ABB.SMP (or perhaps some other real OPC Server).

You exit off-line mode by either disconnecting the OPC Server, or by opening a workspace that was
not saved for off-line.
See Also: What is OPC Server
OfflineOPC
Off-line Mode

3. Information about OPC Server

If you want information about the currently connected OPC Server, select Network Server Status from
the Network menu.

An OPC Server Status dialog box is presented.

Information of special interest to you might be, whether the in-process server (DLL) or local server
(EXE) is in use. You can also see version and build numbers.
Click the OK button to close the dialog box.

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4. Viewing and Changing OPC Settings

The OPC settings of the on-line items in the item list pane can be viewed and changed.
Note that the changes you make are saved/restored with a workspace.
We discourage you to make any changes. Only if you are connected to a remote OPC Server with a
relatively slow network, and/or you want to have a huge amount of items on-line in the item list pane,
you can use bigger update rate than the normal (local: 1 s, remote: 3 s).
Note that there are other groups in the OPC Server used by DriveWindow. However, you are not able
to view and change settings other groups.
To view or change the OPC settings of the on-line items in the item list pane, select OPC Settings from
the Desktop menu.

An OPC Settings dialog box is presented.

If the OPC Server is DriveOPC, the values Deadband, Time Bias, and LCID are not used, although
accepted, by the server.
Note! Do not uncheck the Active field. If you do, updating of the on-line values ceases, because the
thread doing the reading in the OPC Server stops.
In practice, the only field you may change is Update Rate.
If you did not make any changes, click the Cancel button.
Clicking the OK button writes the new values to the OPC Server and closes the dialog box.

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Clicking the Apply button writes the values to OPC Server without closing the dialog box.
Note that you cannot cancel the values already written by clicking Apply. Actually, clicking first Apply
and then Cancel has the same effect as clicking OK.
See Also: What is OPC Server

5. Disconnecting OPC Server

Note that you do not need to disconnect the OPC Server in case you are opening a graph (.dwt) file or
a workspace (.dww) file. DriveWindow does it automatically, if required, before connecting to a new
OPC Server.
To disconnect the currently connected OPC Server, select Disconnect Server from the Network menu
or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N.

If you have control taken, you need to confirm releasing of control.

After successful disconnection, <Disconnected> is shown in the title bar:

Side effects of disconnecting are:

• Control is released.
• The monitor is stopped and cleared. All channels are removed from the monitor.
• No status refresh in the browse tree pane.
• No status refresh of dataloggers.
• All uploaded dataloggers are cleared. All those settings, which are not preserved in a drive,
are set to their default values.
• Open parameter file is closed. Note that a request for saving unchanged changes may be
shown.
• The browse tree pane is cleared.
• The item list pane is cleared. Note that all locked items are unlocked and there will be no item
on-line.
Note that disconnecting does not close an open backup or loading package.

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OPC Server

Note that some DriveWindow operations require restarting of a drive. Restarting a drive initiated by
DriveWindow does an internal disconnecting and reconnecting of the OPC Server. The side effects of
disconnecting are still valid, but re-connecting brings back the drives into the browse tree pane. Their
order and possibly node addresses may have changed, however. Also, all drive sub-branches will be
collapsed.

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5.1.1 Automatic disconnecting of the OPC Server

The OPC Server is automatically disconnected when you:

• Open a graph file, which puts DriveWindow off-line.
• Restore a workspace, which was not connected to the currently connected OPC Server.
• Close DriveWindow.
• Log off or shut down Windows operating system.
Since DriveWindow version 2.11 you have to confirm the automatic disconnection in the two first
cases, e.g.:

2. Connecting to DDCS Network ....................................................................................................8-3

3. How to Backup .............................................................................................................................8-3

3.1 To create a new Backup Package: .........................................................................................8-4
3.2 To open an existing Backup Package: ...................................................................................8-4
3.2.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed: .........................................................................8-5
3.3 To Backup All drives: ..............................................................................................................8-5
3.4 To select the Drives to be backed up: ....................................................................................8-6
3.4.1 When the Select Drives dialog box is displayed:.............................................................8-6
3.5 Wait while backup is executing...............................................................................................8-8
3.6 To save the Backup Package: ................................................................................................8-9
3.6.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:...................................................................8-10
3.7 To close the Backup Package: .............................................................................................8-11

4. How to Restore...........................................................................................................................8-12
4.1 To open an existing Backup Package: .................................................................................8-12
4.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed: .......................................................................8-13
4.2 To select Restore:.................................................................................................................8-13
4.2.1 When the Restore Drive dialog box is displayed: ..........................................................8-14
4.2.2 When the Restore Drive from dialog box is displayed:..................................................8-15
4.3 Wait while restore is executing .............................................................................................8-16
4.4 To close the Backup Package: .............................................................................................8-16

5. How to Download.......................................................................................................................8-17
5.1 To open an existing Loading Package:.................................................................................8-17
5.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed: .......................................................................8-18
5.2 To select Download: .............................................................................................................8-19
5.2.1 When the Select Drive dialog box is displayed:.............................................................8-20
5.2.2 A dialog box asking the method to be used in selecting Download Options is shown: .8-20
5.3 Using the Download Wizard .................................................................................................8-20
5.3.1 When the Download Options dialog box is displayed:...................................................8-21
5.3.2 With the DriveLoader Download Wizard dialog boxes: .................................................8-21
5.3.3 When you click Finish, a confirmation is requested: .....................................................8-22
5.4 Entering the Type Code ........................................................................................................8-23
5.4.1 When the Download Options dialog box is displayed:...................................................8-23
5.4.2 If the type code does not select all options, the Download Wizard starts:.....................8-25
5.4.3 When option selection is ready, a confirmation is requested: .......................................8-25
5.5 Wait while download is executing .........................................................................................8-26
5.6 To close the Loading Package: ............................................................................................8-27

6. Using Wildcards.........................................................................................................................8-27

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System Software

1.1 What is System Software

System Software consists of all the persistent "files" that are saved in the flash prom of the AMC board,
the boot program excluded.
Typically System Software files can be divided into:
• Operating System and Motor Controller files
• Panel Handling file
• Block Library file
• Application Task files
• Parameter files
• Language files
• Version Information and other text files
When the board is reset, the boot program reads the operating system from FPROM, which then reads
all other required files into RAM.

1.2 What is a Backup Package

Backup Package is similar to a Loading Package. It is a single PC-file usually with filename extension
BPG. A single Backup Package can contain backups of zero, one, or more AMC boards. Content of
the PC-file is compressed and encrypted.
Logically, all backed up System Software "files" uploaded from an AMC board are collected within a
"folder" inside the package file. Name of the "folder" is the same as was given to the drive but
appended with communication channel and node numbers, both within curly braces.
The same "folder" name, it is, the same drive, can appear only once within a Backup Package. So, it is
not possible to backup the same drive more than once in a Backup Package.
A Backup Package can be opened, saved, saved with a new name, closed, and a new Backup
Package can be created. Backup and restore commands can be done only if a Backup Package is
open.
A Backup Package has attributes called Properties, which the user can view and edit (user interface
for them is not implemented yet).
One of the properties is a password, which can be enabled and must be entered at package creation
time. It is currently not possible to change or disable the password unless the Backup Package is
empty.
See Also: What is a Loading Package

1.3 What is a Loading Package

Loading Package is similar to a Backup Package. It is a single PC-file usually with filename extension
LPG. A single Loading Package can contain system software for several different types of AMC boards
with different options. Content of the PC-file is compressed and encrypted.

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Logically, Loading Package contains System Software "files" collected within several "folders" and
subfolders inside the package file. In addition to System Software "files", there are different "control
files", "source files", "parameter setting files", and other "auxiliary files" that are used in the option
selection, type code resolution, and download process.
A Loading Package can be opened, saved, saved with a new name, closed, and a new Loading
Package can be created. To create a new Loading Package, making changes into an existing one, and
saving requires a special license to be entered into DriveWindow, however (not yet implemented).
Downloading command can be done only if a Loading Package is open.
A Loading Package has attributes called Properties, which the user can view and edit (user interface
for them is not implemented yet). Editing requires the special license that allows changing a loading
package.
One of the properties is a password, which can be enabled and must be entered at package creation
time. It is currently not possible to change or disable the password unless the Loading Package is
empty.
See Also: What is a Backup Package

2. Connecting to DDCS Network

If you have connected DriveWindow to the DDCS Network (OPC Server) before starting a Backup,
Restore, or Download operation, it is also the network (OPC Server) used in those operations.
If, however, you do not have a connection to a DDCS Network before starting a Backup, Restore, or
Download operation, connection is automatically made to the local DDCS Network (OPC Server
ABB.SMP (DriveOPC) in the local PC).
It is recommended that during Backup, Restore, or Download there is no extra traffic in the network. It
can be done by stopping all monitoring and putting DriveWindow offline. If you are using the local
DDCS Network, it can be also done by disconnecting DriveWindow from the network.
If DriveWindow is connected to the DDCS Network, there is an internal disconnect/reconnect done
after Restore or Download operation because those operations may totally change the identity of some
Drive.

3. How to Backup
Backing up means saving the contents of one or more Drive FPROMs into a single backup file called
Backup Package. It is also possible to add or replace backed up FPROMs within an existing Backup
Package.
Note that for safety reasons you cannot backup any drive while control of some drive is taken. The
commands in the menu are disabled (grayed).
Before it is possible to do backup, you must have a Backup Package open.
To backup you:
• Create a new or open an existing Backup Package
• Backup all Drives or select the Drives to be backed up
• Wait while backup is executing
• Save the Backup Package
• Close the Backup Package

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System Software

Note! Node address 1 is reserved for spare parts. If your drive network has a drive at node address 1,
restoring a backup to drives at other node addresses is not possible, unless you disconnect
node 1 before you try to restore.
See Also: How to Restore
System Software Submenu
Handling of Spare Parts

3.1 To create a new Backup Package:

3.2 To open an existing Backup Package:

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System Software

3.2.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed:

• Select Backup Packages (*.BPG) from Files of type
• Uncheck Open as read only
• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the Backup Package resides
• Click the Backup Package you want to open
• Click Open

Note! You can also enter the name of the Backup Package into File name, with or without a directory
path.
Note! You can limit the filenames displayed by entering a wildcard construct into File name and then
clicking Open.

3.3 To Backup All drives:

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Note that for safety reasons you cannot backup the drives while control of some drive is taken. The
command in the menu is disabled (grayed).
See Also: To select the Drives to be backed up

3.4 To select the Drives to be backed up:

Note that for safety reasons you cannot backup any drive while control of some drive is taken. The
command in the menu is disabled (grayed).

3.4.1 When the Select Drives dialog box is displayed:

• With Ctrl down, click the Drives you want to backup
• Click Backup

Note! You can also enter the names of the Drives into Drive names. If you enter more than one
drivename, enclose each name in double quotes and separate them with a space. A single
drivename does not need the double quotes.

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Note! You can limit the drivenames displayed by entering a wildcard construct into Drive names and
then clicking Backup
Note! You can select a range by keeping Shift down instead of Ctrl. If you click a name without Shift or
Ctrl down, all previous selections are lost.
Note! Double clicking a name is a shortcut to selecting it and clicking Backup.

While the DriveLoader enumerates the Drives, the following message is displayed:

When connection to the Drives is made the first time, it may take minutes while the OPC server is
doing its drive identification.
If you selected just one Drive and it has already a backup in the Backup Package, the following
message is displayed:

If you click Yes, the already existing backup is overwritten, otherwise the Drive is not backed up.
If you selected several Drives and some of them already have a backup in the Backup Package the
following message is displayed:

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System Software

You have now options:

• If you click Yes, the already existing backup is overwritten.
• If you click Yes to All, the already existing backup is overwritten and no confirmations are
requested any more but Yes is automatically used as an answer.
• If you click No, the Drive is not backed up.
• If you click No to All, the Drive is not backed up and no confirmations are requested any more
but No is used as an answer.
• If you click Cancel, the no backup is done.
See Also: To Backup All Drives

3.5 Wait while backup is executing

During the backing up, a dialog box is displayed:

It displays:
• Name of the Drive currently being backed up
• Name of the FPROM file currently being uploaded
• Progress indicator showing used time/total estimated time
• Estimated time left
• Amount of uploaded bytes/total bytes to be uploaded
Note! The dialog box is not updated during a file upload but just after each file has been uploaded.

Note! The estimated time left is very inaccurate until more than about 100 KB has been uploaded.

If you want to abort the backup operation, click the Cancel button. The following confirmation message
is displayed:

If you click No, backing up continues, otherwise it is aborted.

Note! Because the Cancel button is not checked during a file upload but just after each file has been
uploaded, it may take even a minute before clicking of the Cancel takes effect.

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If you aborted the backup operation but one or more drives have already been backed up, the following
message box is displayed:

If you click No, already backed up Drives are not disregarded, otherwise the backup operation is
cancelled.
Note! If a disregarded, aborted, or not yet done backup was supposed to replace an existing backup
in the Backup Package, replacement is not done but the existing backup remains untouched in
the Package.

3.6 To save the Backup Package:

If the Backup Package is new or if you selected Save As... instead of Save, a Save As dialog box is
displayed.

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System Software

3.6.1 When the Save As dialog box is displayed:

• Select Backup Packages (*.BPG) from Files of type
• From Save in, browse into the drive and directory, into which you want to save the Backup
Package
• Enter the name of the Backup Package into File name or, if you want to replace an existing
file, click the filename you want to replace
• Click Save

If the file already exists, confirmation to replace it asked.

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3.7 To close the Backup Package:

If the Backup Package has not been saved or changes have been made into it since last save, a
message box is displayed:

If you click Yes, Save is done. If you click No, no saving is done and all changes are lost. If you click
Cancel, closing is canceled and the Backup Package is still open.
Note! The question about saving unsaved changes is asked also when you create a new or open an
existing Package.
Note! The question about saving unsaved changes is asked also when you exit from DriveWindow,
but (in current version) you do not have the option to cancel exiting:

If you click No, the Backup Package is not saved and all changes made into it are lost.

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System Software

4. How to Restore
Restoring means restoring the contents of FPROM of a Drive from a single backup file called Backup
Package, which may contain backups of several Drives. The Drive is also reset at the end of the
operation.
Note that for safety reasons you cannot restore any drive while control of some drive is taken. The
command in the menu is disabled (grayed).
Before it is possible to do restore, you must have a Backup Package open.
To restore you:
• Open an existing Backup Package
• Select the Drive to be restored
• Select a backup from the Backup Package to be downloaded to the Drive
• Wait while restore is executing
• Close the Backup Package
If you do not have DriveWindow running, you can start DriveWindow by double clicking the name of a
Backup Package file in NT Explorer (for example).

DriveWindow starts, opens the Backup Package, and asks you to select the Drive to be restored.
See Also: How to Backup
How to Download
System Software Submenu

4.1 To open an existing Backup Package:

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4.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed:

• Select Backup Packages (*.BPG) from Files of type
• Check Open as read only (not mandatory)
• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the Backup Package resides
• Click the Backup Package you want to open
• Click Open

4.2 To select Restore:

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Note that for safety reasons you cannot restore any drive while control of some drive is taken. The
command in the menu is disabled (grayed).
While the DriveLoader enumerates the Drives, the following message is displayed:

When connection to the Drives is made the first time, it may take minutes while the OPC server is
doing its drive identification.

4.2.1 When the Restore Drive dialog box is displayed:

• Click the Drive you want to restore
• Click From...

Note! Only names of Drives that can be restored are displayed.

Note! You can also enter the name of the Drives into Drive name. It can be enclosed in double
quotes.
Note! You can limit the drivenames displayed by entering a wildcard construct into Drive name and
then clicking From...
Note! Double clicking a name is a shortcut to selecting it and clicking From....

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4.2.2 When the Restore Drive from dialog box is displayed:

• Click the backup you want to restore to the Drive
• Click Restore

Note! Only names of backups that can be restored are displayed.

Note! At the lowest DriveLoader authority level a backup can be restored only to the same numbered
node, from which it was backed up, or into node number 1. Current DriveWindow has only the
lowest authority level.
Note! You can also enter the name of the backup into Backup. It can be enclosed in double quotes.

Note! You can limit the backup names displayed by entering a wildcard construct into Backup and
then clicking Restore.
Note! Double clicking a name is a shortcut to selecting it and clicking Restore.

A confirmation is then requested:

If you click No, the restore operation is cancelled.

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4.3 Wait while restore is executing

During the restore, a dialog box is displayed:

It displays:
• Name of the Drive currently being restored
• Name of the FPROM file currently being downloaded or the operation (clear, reset) currently
being executed
• Progress indicator showing used time/total estimated time
• Estimated time left
• Amount of downloaded bytes/total bytes to be downloaded
Note! The dialog box is not updated during a file download or an operation (clear, reset) being
executed, but just after each file has been downloaded or just after executing an operation
(clear, reset).
Note! Because contents of the Drive may have totally been changed, an internal Network Disconnect
and then Reconnect is made in DriveWindow, which may change state and contents of
windows of DriveWindow.

4.4 To close the Backup Package:

5.1 To open an existing Loading Package:

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5.1.1 When the Open dialog box is displayed:

• Select Loading Packages (*.LPG) from Files of type
• Check Open as read only (not mandatory)
• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the Loading Package resides
• Click the Loading Package you want to open
• It is good practice to set Open as read-only
• Click Open

Note! You can also enter the name of the Loading Package into File name, with or without a directory
path.
Note! You can limit the filenames displayed by entering a wildcard construct into File name and the
clicking Open.

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5.2 To select Download:

Note that for safety reasons you cannot download to any drive while control of some drive is taken. The
command in the menu is disabled (grayed).
While the DriveLoader enumerates the Drives, the following message is displayed:

When connection to the Drives is made the first time, it may take minutes while the OPC server is
doing its drive identification.

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5.2.1 When the Select Drive dialog box is displayed:

• Click the Drive you want to be downloaded
• Click Download...

Note! Only names of Drives that can be downloaded are displayed.

5.2.2 A dialog box asking the method to be used in selecting Download Options is shown:

5.3 Using the Download Wizard

Instead of entering the type code directly, you can use the Download Wizard to select options.

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5.3.1 When the Download Options dialog box is displayed:

• Select Download Wizard
• Click OK

5.3.2 With the DriveLoader Download Wizard dialog boxes:

• Select the options you want
• Click Next to move to the next option
• Click Back to move back to the previous option
• Click Finish in the last option

Note! Type code field shows the type code with asterisk in positions not yet selected.

Note! Back is grayed, when the first option is to be selected.

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Note! Instead of Next, a grayed Finish is shown, if current selection is not valid.

5.3.3 When you click Finish, a confirmation is requested:

If you click No, the download operation is cancelled.

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Depending on the DriveWindow version and your authority level, the confirmation can contain a list of
files and commands to be used when downloading.

5.4 Entering the Type Code

Instead of using the Download Wizard, you can enter a type code directly.

5.4.1 When the Download Options dialog box is displayed:

• Select Type code
• Enter the type code or select (and edit) a previously used type code
• Click OK

Note! Although type codes are displayed as contiguous strings, you can enter separators (like space,
hyphen, or slash) between different fields of the type code.

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Note! The last 16 type codes entered or selected by using the Download Wizard are remembered.

Note! You can enter an asterisk into a type code field, which means that the Download Wizard will
start to ask the missing options.

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5.4.2 If the type code does not select all options, the Download Wizard starts:
• Select the options you want
• Click Next to move to the next option
• Click Back to move back to the previous option
• Click Finish in the last option

Note! If the Download Wizard is started after entering the type code, it shows only those options that
are not resolved by the type code entered.
Note! If the type code decoding in a loading package is incomplete, the Download Wizard will start
even if the type code entered does not contain asterisks.

5.4.3 When option selection is ready, a confirmation is requested:

If you click No, the download operation is cancelled.

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Depending on the DriveWindow version and your authority level, the confirmation can contain a list of
files and commands to be used when downloading.

5.5 Wait while download is executing

During the download, a dialog box is displayed:

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It displays:
• Name of the Drive currently being downloaded
• Name of the FPROM file currently being downloaded or the operation (clear or reset, for
example) currently being executed
• Progress indicator showing used time/total estimated time
• Estimated time left
• Amount of downloaded bytes/total bytes to be downloaded
Note! The dialog box is not updated during a file download or an operation (clear or reset, for
example) being executed, but just after each file has been downloaded or just after executing
an operation (clear, reset).
Note! Because contents of the Drive may have totally been changed, an internal Network Disconnect
and then Reconnect is made in DriveWindow, which may change state and contents of
windows of DriveWindow.

5.6 To close the Loading Package:

3. Handling of Spare Parts ............................................................................................................9-23

4. Limitations..................................................................................................................................9-24
4.1.1 Maximum Number of Boards.........................................................................................9-24
4.1.2 Maximum Number of Channels.....................................................................................9-24
4.1.3 Maximum Number of Drives..........................................................................................9-24
4.1.4 Monitoring ......................................................................................................................9-25
4.1.5 Dataloggers ...................................................................................................................9-25

1. Handling of Exported Files

Handling of files exported by DriveWindow depends on the application, into which you import them.
The files exported by DriveWindow have filename extension TXT. They contain (in ASCII format)
information in so called tab separated format.
Note that an exported file is not meant for humans to read. Because it is for other applications, the
accuracy of values is very big. Note also that the decimal symbol defined in the regional settings is
used. So, extra care is required in exchanging exported files with other countries.
The tab separated format is understood by many applications, by Word and Excel, for example, and
can be easily imported in such kind of applications.
We have included a couple of examples, how to get the exported files into Excel and Word.

1.1.1 Importing to Excel

We have used Excel 97 in the following example. Other versions of Excel work similarly, but their
commands may have different names or be in different menus. Also outlook of wizards and dialog
boxes can be different.
In Excel you actually do not import the exported file, but open it and let a wizard to put the information
into cells..

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Select Open from the File menu.

An Open dialog box is presented. Browse to the folder containing the exported file and select Files of
type Text Files (*.prn; *.txt; *.csv).

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All text files a now displayed. Select the export file you want to import and click the Open button.

A Text Import Wizard dialog box is presented. Usually you do not need to go through all the steps. Just
click the Finish button.

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Excel now opens a new workbook that contains the information exported by DriveWindow. You can
now adjust the column widths by dragging their separators.

If you want to, you can also set the alignment of values in selected areas to be aligned right, for
example.

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You can also reduce the precision used in displaying of the selected numbers.

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It may be that format of time stamps require changing, too.

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With Excel, you can then analyze the data, make charts out of it, print data, etc.

1.1.2 Pasting Items into Word

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In DriveWindow, copy the items, which you want to paste, into the clipboard.

In your Word document, move the caret (text cursor) to the place, into which you want to paste the
items. Select Paste command in the Edit menu (or press Ctrl+V key).

Select the pasted text.

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Select the Convert Text to Table command in the Table menu.

A Convert Text to Table dialog box is presented. Check that Tabs is selected in Separate text at.

Now you have the pasted information in a table. While all of the table is selected, you can, for example,
add a grid. Select the Borders and Shading command in the Format menu.

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A Borders and Shading dialog box is presented. Select your favourite style, color, width, borders
setting, etc. Click the OK button when you are ready.

You probably also want to adjust widths of the columns. You can do it by dragging the column
separators with the mouse.

1.1.3 Importing to Word

We have used Word 97 in the following example. Other versions of Word work similarly, but their
commands may have different names or be in different menus. Also outlook of wizards and dialog
boxes can be different.
For this example, we have exported parameters of a drive, and edited the parameter file by removing
almost all parameter groups to get the example smaller.

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In your Word document, move the caret (text cursor) to the place, into which you want to insert the
items. Select File command in the Insert menu.

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An Insert File dialog box is presented. Browse to the folder containing the exported file and select Files
of type Text Files (*.txt).

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All text files a now displayed. Select the export file you want to import and click the OK button.

Select the inserted text (only the beginning is shown here).

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Select the Convert Text to Table command in the Table menu.

A Convert Text to Table dialog box is presented. Check that Tabs is selected in Separate text at.

Now you have the pasted information in a table. While all of the table is selected, you can, for example,
add a grid. Select the Borders and Shading command in the Format menu.

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A Borders and Shading dialog box is presented. Select your favourite style, color, width, borders
setting, etc. Click the OK button when you are ready.

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You probably also want to adjust widths of the columns. You can do it by dragging the column
separators with the mouse (only the end is shown here).

2.1.1 DDCS Ring

In case of a DDCS ring, if power of a drive fails (or the communication loop is broken for any reason),
your PC cannot communicate with any of the drives connected in the ring.
If you have the drive status display on-line, all images in front of the drives in the browse tree pane
change to show question marks.
Also, if you have items on-line in the item list pane, they will show signal quality bad. The same
happens, if you update any off-line item, while power of a drive is down.

When the power is restored (or the broken communication loop is fixed), DriveWindow recovers
automatically. Note that quality of an off-line item does not change until you update them.

2.1.2 Branching Units Stay Up

In case of a tree of branching units, if power of a drive fails (or the communication between it and its
branching unit is broken for any reason), but all the branching units stay powered and functional, your
PC can still communicate with all the other drives.

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If you have the drive status display on-line, the image in front of the failed drive in the browse tree pane
changes to show a question mark. Images of all other drives are shown normally.
Also, if you have items of the failed drive on-line in the item list pane, they will show signal quality bad.
The same happens, if you update any off-line item of the failed drive, while power of a drive is down.
Items of all other drives are shown normally.

When power of the failed drive is restored (or the broken communication is fixed), DriveWindow
recovers automatically. Note that quality of an off-line item does not change until you update them.

2.1.3 Branching Units Fail

In case of a tree of branching units, if power of one or more branching units fails (or the
communications between them and their parent units are broken for any reason), your PC cannot
communicate with the drives behind the failing branching units.
If you have the drive status display on-line, the images in front of the drives behind the failed branching
units in the browse tree pane change to show a question mark. Images of other drives are shown
normally.
Also, if you have items of the drives behind the failed branching units on-line in the item list pane, they
will show signal quality bad. The same happens, if you update any off-line item of a drive behind the
failed branching units. Items of other drives are shown normally.

For example, if the root brancing unit fails:

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In case a broken communication is fixed without taking power off from the branching units,
DriveWindow recovers automatically.

However, when power of the failed branching units is restored, they require re-programming by the
DriveOPC communication library. DriveWindow does not know that power has been recovered, and
automatic recovery is not possible.

You have two main options to recover by yourself:

• Restart DriveOPC, which can be done by disconnecting and re-connecting the OPC Server.
• Command DriveOPC to ask its communication library to restart (re-identify and thus re-
program the DDCS network).

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Restarting DriveOPC is simpler. You usually use it, if you are willing to lose contents of the monitor and
any of the uploaded dataloggers.
• Save your desktop to a workspace file.
• Disconnect the OPC Server.
• Restore the workspace from the file. Restoring also does the re-connecting of DriveOPC.

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Note that quality of an off-line item does not change until you update them.
Commanding of DriveOPC to recover from branching unit power fail is more complex. You must use it
in case you do not want to stop monitoring, lose the monitor contents, or lose any uploaded datalogger
contents.
• Make sure that all failed branching units has been powered and also all drives behind them.
• Add an item with OPC address Communication.Restart into the item list pane.
• Write the value ON to the added item.
• Wait while the DriveOPC communication library does its identification and re-programming of
the branching units.

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Note that quality of an off-line item does not change until you update them.
See Also: Viewing Status of Drives
Viewing Parameters and Signals
Browse Tree Pane
Item List Pane

3. Handling of Spare Parts

We recommend that you reserve the node address one of each DDCS communication channel for
drive control board spare parts.
The reasons are:
• Control boards made to be used as spare parts have usually node address one pre-
programmed, when they are shipped.
• If a control board has not been programmed at all, it boots at node address one.
• Functions within DriveWindow, which require or are able to restart a drive, cannot do
restarting of drives at other nodes, if there is a drive at node address one. The reason is that
any restarting drive uses node address one for while, and there would be two drives
responding at the same node address during that time.
If you do not follow these recommendations, you are not able to:
• Restart other drives after downloading their parameters.
• Restore or download system software to other drives.
If you follow the recommendations and leave the node address one free for spare parts, replacing a
control board, for example, with a spare is easy.
After commissioning is done, take full backup of all drives. You can have them all in a single backup
package file.
If a control board of a drive fails and needs to be replaced by a spare:
• Replace the control board with a spare. You do not need power off other drives.
• If you have DriveWindow running, either disconnect the OPC Server or exit.
• Power up the drive.
• Start DriveWindow and/or connect the OPC Server. The repaired drive should appear at node
address one.
• Open the backup package file.
• Select the repaired drive at node address one to be restored.
• Select the original node from the backup package to be used in restoring.
• Execute restoring. If all went well, the repaired drive will be shown at its original node address.
• Clean up by closing the backup package.
Note that you do not need to do any connection changes in the optical DDCS network, if using this
method of handling spare parts.

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4.1.2 Maximum Number of Channels

DriveWindow itself does not use the communication channels itself. So, the limits are set by the
DriveOPC, which DriveWindow uses in communication with the drives.
Since version 2.03 (included in DriveWindow version 2.02), DriveOPC can handle several DDCS
communication boards. Number of supported boards depends on the operating system.
Under Windows NT, DriveOPC supports maximum 5 channels (2 NISA-03 boards and 1 NDPA-02
board).
Under Windows 2000 and Windows XP, DriveOPC supports maximum 10 channels.

4.1.3 Maximum Number of Drives

The limits are set by the DriveOPC, which DriveWindow uses in communication with the drives.
The node address space of a communication channel is 256.
Two of these are reserved by the DDCS protocol. Additional 50 of the node addresses (76...125) are
reserved for branching units by the communication library. Also, we recommend to leave the node
address one for spare parts.
Thus, each communication channel can connect 203 drives (plus one spare).
The maximum number of drives depends on the operating system.
Under Windows NT, 1015 drives (plus 5 spares) are supported.
Under Windows 2000 and Windows XP, 2030 drives (plus 10 spares) are supported.
However, there can be limitations introduced by the speed of your PC and using DriveOPC remotely. It
may be that having drive status refreshing on-line, for example, chokes you PC long before the
theoretical maximum is reached.

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4.1.4 Monitoring

Maximum number of monitored

items: 6.
Minimum drawing interval: 1 ms in fast mode, 10 ms in normal mode.
Note that the interval is used as a measurement cycle time, if
possible. However, having a short interval and many channels to
monitor slows down the measurement cycle. In fast mode it
takes about 1 ms to read one value from a drive. In normal
mode it takes 3...4 ms to read one value from a drive. These are
valid only if there is no other load (including device drivers) in
your PC, and your PC and its display driver are fast enough.
Maximum size of the history buffer: 2147483647 ms (almost 25 days).
Note that in practice the size of the (virtual) memory of your PC
sets the upper limit for the size of the history buffer.
Maximum absolute value of y-axis
minimum and maximum: 3.40282356779733642751e+038.
Maximum length of the x-axis: 32700 * interval.
Note that in practice you should not have longer x-axis than you
have horizontal point on your screen. Updating the screen during
monitoring gets slower, the more you have points to update.

4.1.5 Dataloggers

Limits of dataloggers are set by their implementation in the drives. There are some limits in
DriveWindow, too.

Maximum number of dataloggers in

a drive: 2.
Maximum number of logged 6.
variables:
Maximum absolute value of y-axis
minimum and maximum: 3.40282356779733642751e+038.
Maximum length of the x-axis: 32700 * interval.

4. Configuring Parameter Backup and Restore ........................................................................10-10

4.1.1 The INI-file ...................................................................................................................10-11
4.1.2 Keys.............................................................................................................................10-11
4.1.3 LockParameter ............................................................................................................10-11
4.1.4 CheckGroup ................................................................................................................10-11
4.1.5 UserGroup ...................................................................................................................10-12
4.1.6 IdRunGroup .................................................................................................................10-12
4.1.7 Ordering.......................................................................................................................10-12
4.1.8 Overriding Defaults ......................................................................................................10-12

5. Fast Monitoring ........................................................................................................................10-12

6. Increasing Virtual Memory ......................................................................................................10-13

7. Caching .....................................................................................................................................10-16
7.1.1 Screen Refresh............................................................................................................10-18
7.1.2 Selection Change ........................................................................................................10-18
7.1.3 Update .........................................................................................................................10-19
7.1.4 On-line .........................................................................................................................10-19
7.1.5 Running Monitor ..........................................................................................................10-20
7.1.6 Paused Monitor............................................................................................................10-20
7.1.7 Writing .........................................................................................................................10-20
7.1.8 Control.Local................................................................................................................10-21

8. Configuring DDCS Communication .......................................................................................10-21

9. Special Items ............................................................................................................................10-23

10. Using Symbol Tables ...........................................................................................................10-24

10.1.1 Application Symbols ....................................................................................................10-24
10.1.2 System Software Symbols...........................................................................................10-26
10.1.3 Setting the Start-in Folder............................................................................................10-28

11. Garbage Removal from Monitor Display............................................................................10-30

11.1.1 Editing Registry............................................................................................................10-30

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1. Architecture
Architecture of DriveWindow, when used locally, is approximately as follows:

Architecture of DriveWindow, when used remotely, is approximately as follows:

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Architecture of DriveWindow, when used off-line, is approximately as follows:

2. DriveOPC
DriveOPC is an OPC Server based on OPC Data Access Standard 1.0A. It implements the obligatory
custom interfaces and IOPCBrowseServerAddressSpace.
In general, an OPC Server is a software module, which implements OPC data access specification
made by OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org). OPC stands for “OLE for Process Control”.
According to OPC Foundation:
The OPC Specification is a non-proprietary technical specification that defines a set of
standard interfaces based upon Microsoft’s OLE/COM technology. The application of
the OPC standard interface makes possible interoperability between automation/control
applications, field systems/devices and business/office applications.
Traditionally, each software or application developer was required to write a custom
interface, or server/driver, to exchange data with hardware field devices. OPC
eliminates this requirement by defining a common, high performance interface that
permits this work to be done once, and then easily reused by HMI, SCADA, Control and
custom applications.
In principle, DriveWindow is able to act as a user interface for any OPC Server as long as it
implements the obligatory custom interfaces and IOPCBrowseServerAddressSpace of the Data
Access Standard 1.0A.
However, DriveWindow contains many drive dependent features, which require that the OPC Server is
DriveOPC. DriveOPC is included in the installation of DriveWindow. When you install DriveWindow,
you get also DriveOPC installed.
There are two versions of an OPC Server:
• In-process server (SMP.DLL). It can be used only locally.
• Local server (SMP.EXE). It is used at the remote end, but can also be used locally.
If a client program uses the OPC Server locally, it can select, which version to use, when connecting to
the OPC Server. DriveWindow, however, like many other client programs, delegate the selection to the
operating system, which selects the in-process server, if it is available. If not, local server is selected.
The in-process server can be taken out of use by a register change, if needed.
However, depending on your operating system and how it is configured, it may also be possible to use
the local server (EXE) version “remotely”. Typically, connecting remotely to \\localhost or 127.0.0.1,
actually connects to the local server in the same PC.

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When using DriveOPC in-process server (DLL), each client program running simultaneously in the
same PC gets its own instance of the server. There is an internal lock within DriveOPC, which allows
only one instance to use the communication library. If, for example, more than one DriveWindow are
running simultaneously and connect to the local in-process server, only the first one is able to see the
drives, others see nothing.
Since DriveOPC version 2.02 (included in DriveWindow 2.01), the communication library shows a
message box, if another instance of the library is already running.

Note, however, that the message is not shown in case DriveOPC is configured to be used remotely.
Note that also the local server (EXE) uses the also the communication library. So it is also one of the
“clients” competing about the use of the internal lock in the library.
When using the local server (EXE) either locally or remotely (if properly configured), several clients can
connect and use the server simultaneously. DriveWindow, however, always checks, if other
DriveWindow instances are trying to use the same server. If that is the case, DriveWindow refuses to
connect, and informs the user about the simultaneous use, first with a detailed error message and
immediately after that with a more understandable explanation:

2.1 Remote Use

Because DriveOPC does not have a user interface and is based on COM technology, it can be used
also remotely through DCOM. DriveWindow has the ability to connect to a remote OPC Server, too. It
is required, however, that the same OPC Server is also installed locally, because DriveWindow gets
the list of available servers locally.
DriveWindow acting as a client for a remote OPC Server is ready for use after installation.
The remote end requires that DriveOPC or another DriveWindow (includes DriveOPC) is installed in
the remote end PC. In addition, the remote end needs to be configured, so that clients can access the
remote PC, can launch DriveOPC, and can access DriveOPC.
Configuring DriveOPC for remote use is out of scope of this document. More information about
configuring can be found in “Administrating DriveWindow.pdf” (00055626.DOC or 00104273.DOC) in
sub-folder of DriveWindow installation folder, or “Administrating DriveOPC.pdf” (00073806.DOC or
00104272.DOC) in sub-folder of DriveOPC installation folder.
See Also: DriveOPC
What is OPC Server
Connecting to OPC Server
Remote Connection

2.2 Several Clients

Although there is no need to run several instances of DriveWindow locally, there may be other
applications, which you want to be able to use the local DriveOPC simultaneously.
Because DriveWindow delegates the selection of DriveOPC (SMP.DLL or SMP.EXE) to the operating
system, the in-process (DLL) version will be selected. It means that simultaneous communication from
several clients is not possible.
Depending on your operating system and how it is configured, it may be possible to use the local
server (EXE) version “remotely”. Typically, connecting remotely to \\localhost or 127.0.0.1, actually
connects to the local server in the same PC. Of course, all clients must then be able to do remote
connection.
Another way is to make changes to the registry, so that the in-process (DLL) version is taken out of
use. Then the operating system has to select the local server (EXE) version, which is then shared by
all applications using DriveOPC locally. Even DriveWindow will use the EXE version then.
Note that the local server (EXE) version is inherently slower than the in-process (DLL) version. So, we
do not recommend forcing the use of the local server (EXE) version unless absolutely necessary.
If possible, the in-process (DLL) version should be taken back in use, if the forcing the use of the local
server (EXE) version is not needed any more. It is done by restoring back the original values in the
registry.
Before making any registry changes concerning DriveOPC, stop all programs using it.
There are two methods of making registry changes:
• Editing the registry with a registry editor
• Using self-registering and unregistering features of the servers
The latter method can be used if DriveOPC version is 2.02 (included in DriveWindow 2.01) or newer.

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2.2.1 Editing Registry

Start your favourite registry editor (RegEdit.exe, for example).

Search for SMP.DLL (in data).

If necessary, repeat, until the key InprocServer32 having SMP.DLL (preceded by path) in its default
value.

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Rename the InprocServer32 key to, for example, InprocServer32.bak.

After this change all applications, which use DriveOPC locally, will use the local server (EXE) instead of
the in-process server (DLL).

2.2.2 Using Self-Registering Features

This is the preferred method if DriveOPC version is 2.02 (included in DriveWindow 2.01) or newer.
To disable the in-process server (DLL), check SMP.DLL location, and unregister it by running
RegSvr32 (assuming SMP.DLL is in folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\DriveWare\DriveOPC):
Regsvr32 -u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\DriveWare\DriveOPC\SMP.DLL"

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Regsvr32 should tell you about successful unregistration.

Because unregistering the in-process server removes some information needed by the local server,
you need to re-register the local server (EXE). To re-register it, check SMP.EXE location, and run it
(assuming SMP.EXE is in folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\DriveWare\DriveOPC):
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\DriveWare\DriveOPC\SMP.EXE" -RegServer

Now all applications, which use DriveOPC locally, will use the local server (EXE) instead of the in-
process server (DLL).
If you want to restore the in-process server (DLL) into use, check SMP.DLL location, and register it by
running RegSvr32 (assuming SMP.DLL is in folder C:\Program Files\Common
Files\DriveWare\DriveOPC):
Regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\DriveWare\DriveOPC\SMP.DLL"

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Regsvr32 should tell you about successful registration.

2.2.3 Checking the Server

You can check it by using task manager, for example. When an application has connected to
DriveOPC, there is a process called SMP.EXE running.

You can also ask information about the OPC Server, and it should show that Local DriveOPC
(SMP.EXE) is the server in use.
See Also: DriveOPC
What is OPC Server
Information about OPC Server

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3. OfflineOPC
OfflineOPC is an OPC Server based on OPC Data Access Standard 1.0A. It implements the obligatory
custom interfaces, IOPCBrowseServerAddressSpace interface, and IPersistFile interface.
In general, an OPC Server is a software module, which implements OPC data access specification
made by OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org). OPC stands for “OLE for Process Control”. See
DriveOPC for more information about OPC Specification.
There is only an in-process version of the server (OfflineOPC.DLL).
OfflineOPC is capable of collecting data from a real OPC Server or from a client, saving the data into a
file, and restoring data from a file.
OfflineOPC is included in DriveWindow since version 2.10. DriveWindow uses it in:
• Saving graphs into a graph file.
• Saving graphs into a workspace file.
• Saving a workspace for off-line.
• Simulating drives in off-line mode.
Connection to OfflineOPC is done internally in DriveWindow when needed. A user should never
connect directly to OfflineOPC.
When simulating drives, there can be two instances of OfflineOPC created by DriveWindow. One is
simulating the drives and the other is for saving graphs and workspaces for off-line.
Detailed specifications of OfflineOPC and how to use it are out of scope of this document.
See Also: What is OPC Server
DriveOPC
Off-line Mode
Information about OPC Server

4. Configuring Parameter Backup and Restore

DriveWindow is able to save and restore (download) drive parameters.
When parameters of a drive are saved into a file, actually all drive parameters and signals, which are
not protected by passcode, are saved. In addition, even passcode protected ID run result parameters
are saved.
When parameters are restored from a file, the user is requested, whether she wants to restore user
parameters, ID run result parameters, or both.
Because many of the ID run result parameters are passcode protected, it is essential to know, which
are the ID run result parameters, because they depend on the drive.
DriveWindow uses the value of Properties.Kind to determine, which parameters to save and
restore in addition to the not protected ones.
DriveWindow has hard coded default values for many kinds of drives. However, if the drive is not
known by DriveWindow or the default values need to be overridden, it can be done by creating
DW2.INI file into the windows (Winnt) directory.
More detailed explanation of saving and restoring parameters and the hard coded default values can
be found in “Saving and Restoring Parameters.pdf” (00130808.DOC) in DriveWindow installation
folder.
Note that since version 2.12, the user parameters listed in the INI-file are restored before parameters
in groups 10…98. This ordering makes it possible to download some parameters, which would be
locked otherwise.

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4.1.1 The INI-file

The INI-file is an ASCII-file and consists of sections.

Each section starts with a line containing the kind of the drive within brackets. The section name is not
case sensitive.
After the section name comes lines, each containing a key-value pair separated with an equal sign.
Spaces surrounding the equal sign are ignored. The keys and the values are not case sensitive. The
order of the lines does not matter.
The key-value list ends, when a new section or end of file is encountered.

4.1.2 Keys

The following keys within sections are recognized:

Key Value Remarks
LockParameter Group.Index or empty If empty, there is no parameter lock
CheckGroupCount n Number of CheckGroup keys.
CheckGroupn Parameterlist n = 1... CheckGroupCount
UserGroupCount n Number of UserGroup keys.
UserGroupn Parameterlist or Pause n = 1... UserGroupCount
IdRunGroupCount n Number of IdRunGroup keys.
IdRunGroupn Parameterlist or Pause n = 1... IdRunGroupCount

• Group is the parameter group.

• Index is the index of parameter within a group
• n is a number 0...(in GroupCount values) or 1... (in Group keys).
• Pause is Pause:s, where s is the time in seconds paused when restoring the parameters
• ParameterList is Group:IndexList, which lists parameters belonging to Group.
• IndexList is a comma separated list, elements of which consist of either Index-Index or Index. The
hyphen separated notation means a range of indexes. For example, 2-5 means 2,3,4,5.
Spaces surrounding colon, comma, and hyphen are ignored.
All parameters must be readable and other than CheckGroup parameters also writeable.
Note that there is no error checking when reading the restore lists, so editing the lists must be done
with extra care and the changes should be tested carefully.

4.1.3 LockParameter

Unless empty, this is the (Boolean) parameter, which must contain FALSE (0) when restoring
parameters.

4.1.4 CheckGroup

Contains parameters that are used in checking phase during restoration. In addition to the properties
always checked, the values of these parameters should be the same both in the drive and the
parameter file to be downloaded.

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4.1.5 UserGroup

Contains additional parameters, which are restored when user has selected restoration of User
Parameters. Parameters other than type string, which are in groups 10...98 and are not pass code
protected, need not to be listed here, because they are automatically included.

4.1.6 IdRunGroup

Contains parameters, which are restored when user has selected restoration of Id Run Result
Parameters.

4.1.7 Ordering

During restore, the Groupn values are handled in order 1...n. Their order in the file does not matter.
During save, any parameter is put into the save file only once, even if it is not pass code protected and
appears several times in restore lists.

4.1.8 Overriding Defaults

It is not necessary to put into DW2.INI the values already defined as defaults, if only small
modifications are needed, and you can be sure about the defaults.
For example, moving 101.3 from User Parameters to Id Run Result Parameters of ACW600 can be
done by entering the following in the DW2.INI-file.
[ACW600]
UserGroupCount=0
IdRunGroupCount=5
IdRunrGroup5=101:3
See Also: What are Parameters and Signals
How to Save Parameters
How to Restore Parameters
Browsing with Passcode Changes

5. Fast Monitoring
There are to modes of monitoring:
• Normal mode
• Fast mode
In normal mode you are able, in principle, to monitor any kind of item. The minimum interval in this
mode is 10 ms. Normal mode is the mode you should almost always use.
In fast mode you can monitor only drive parameters and signals of type real or integer. The minimum
interval in this mode is 1 ms. You should avoid using this mode, because it may hang-up you PC
and/or cause panel losses in drives.
Note! Windows is not a real-time operating system. It means that, in practice, even if the
measurements are done cyclically, they are not done with equal time intervals. Load caused by
drives in Windows kernel may cause interrupts in measurements in order of hundreds of
milliseconds. These interrupts can hide the phenomena you are trying to monitor, especially
when your monitoring interval is small.

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In fast mode DriveOPC uses a lower level communication protocol and may run in a loop while waiting
responses from a drive, which causes high processor load. Also, the communication throughput in the
lower level communication is about 1 measurement/millisecond. Thus, if you are monitoring more than
one channel with interval of 1 ms, for example, the interval is the resolution used in drawing the trends,
not the actual interval between measurement cycles.
The following shows the same stepping signal measured on four channels with 1 ms interval. It clearly
shows the delays caused measurement bottle-neck. It also shows the effect of digital signal settings:

Using fast mode with a remote OPC Server does not make much sense, although it is possible to do it.
There is not much processor load then, but the actual measurement cycle time may be several
hundreds of milliseconds because of the intranet (or internet) communication delays.
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Setting Monitoring Mode
Garbage Removal from Monitor Display

6. Increasing Virtual Memory

Although the possibility of running out of (virtual) memory is greatest when you are setting size of the
monitor history buffer or the monitoring interval, it is, in theory, possible while changing any of the
settings. The setting you are changing is accepted, but the combination of settings cannot be used by
DriveWindow.

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When you run out of memory, you get an error message:

You should first try to stop other applications. If it does not help, but you have lot of free hard disk
space, you can increase the size of the virtual memory, if you really need to collect huge amounts of
data.
Note that you need to have administrative right to be able to make changes in virtual memory
configuration of the operating system.
Before making any changes into the virtual memory configuration, stop all applications.
Open the control panel and select System.

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A System Properties dialog box is presented. Select the Performance tab and click the Change button.

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A Virtual Memory dialog box is presented. Select the drive, settings of which you want to change, edit
Initial Size (MB) and Maximum Size (MB), and click the Set button. Repeat for other drives, if you wish.
Note that clearing the sizes for a drive removes the virtual memory from that drive. When you are
ready, click the OK button.

A message requesting to restart your computer is shown. The changes you made do not take effect
until your PC is restarted. Click the Yes button to restart immediately, click No, if you want to restart
your PC later.

7. Caching
When a value is displayed on the screen, it is usually not fetched directly from a drive. We will explain
here the principles of moving data around in DriveWindow and DriveOPC.

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We use here the following OPC terminology:

• Device is same as drive (control board)
• Group is a collection of items within DriveOPC. It is not the same as a parameter group in a
drive.
• Items within a group can be active or inactive.
• A group can be active or inactive. For each active group, there is a cyclically running thread
within DriveOPC. The thread reads the active item values from a device and calls a so called
advise sink within DriveWindow. This call-back mechanism is used by all on-line activities
within DriveWindow.
• Always, when a value is read from or written to a device, it is also cached within DriveOPC.
• DriveWindow also reads and writes values directly without the call-back. Each read/write
operation can contain several items.
• The initial quality of values in the DriveOPC cache is bad. Some items (such as datalogger
channel buffers) are not automatically read from a device by DriveWindow, and their quality
stays bad, until the user requests updating of them.
In case the local server (EXE) version is used, there are additional threads not shown here for
simplicity. They are needed because DriveWindow and DriveOPC are running is separate processes
and thus have separate address spaces. The operating system, however, takes care of thread
synchronisation. A client thread always waits while the working thread is executing a job for it, so we do
not lose anything important when we simplify by saying that the client thread does the job.
The general data flow structure is as follows:

When a thread, whether an internal DriveOPC thread or a DriveWindow thread accesses a device or
the internal data structures within DriveOPC, access is synchronised by a lock, which allows only one
thread at a time to handle data.
This means that a group having huge amount of active items, for example, can block all other access
for a long time, because all the items are handled before the lock is released.

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7.1.1 Screen Refresh

In this case there no direct request from the user to change the values on the screen, but the screen
needs to be redrawn for other reasons (restoring a minimized DriveWindow, for example). The values
are drawn from the DriveWindow internal cache. The operation is done internally in DriveWindow.

7.1.2 Selection Change

In this case the user changes selection in the browse tree pane, and the item list pane is reconstructed
by using the values cached by DriveOPC. Changing selection in the datalogger display pane to an
already uploaded datalogger works the same way. The operation is done by a DriveWindow thread
using inactive items.

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7.1.3 Update

In this case the user requests DriveWindow to update the selected items or upload a datalogger, and
the data is fetched from the device and cached. The operation is done by a DriveWindow thread using
inactive items.

7.1.4 On-line

All on-line values (drive status refresh, on-line items in the item list pane, etc.) are handled the same
way, but there are several groups and thus several DriveOPC threads handling them.
There are active groups for the drive status refresh, the drive panel toolbar, the monitor, and the item
list pane.
The values are read by the DriveOPC thread, which also calls back the advise sink in DriveWindow.
Within the advise sink, the values are cached, and a message is posted to a DriveWindow thread,
which then draws the values.
The on-line items are active in an active group.

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7.1.5 Running Monitor

A running monitor is otherwise handled the same way as all other on-line items, but there is an
additional measuring buffer within DriveWindow.

7.1.6 Paused Monitor

While a monitor is paused, the data is still collected into the measuring buffer, but the cache within
DriveWindow is not updated until the monitor is continued.

7.1.7 Writing

Values are always written to the device. The written value is also cached, but quality is marked
uncertain.

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DriveWindow reads immediately the value back (if it is readable) from the device, so the uncertain
quality is rarely seen. However, DriveOPC may know some connections between items (control and
status items, for example), in which writing an item also changes the value of another item. DriveOPC
does the change internally in its cache, which causes the quality of the other item to be uncertain, too,
but the immediate read-back by DriveWindow is not done for it.
The read-back is not shown in the following, but it is done the same way as in update.

7.1.8 Control.Local
The item Control.Local has a special handling within DriveOPC. Note that not all drives have this
item.
Purpose of the item is to take and release control by DriveWindow. When the value ON is written to the
item, control is taken. However, many drives have a watchdog, which requires the ON value to be
refreshed within 10 seconds, otherwise the drive faults with panel loss.
In addition to writing values normally to the item, DriveOPC internally also writes the ON value, when
the item is read, with the following logic:
• The item is read from the device (and cached).
• If the read value is ON, and 0.5 seconds has elapsed since the ON value was written last
time, value ON is re-written (and cached with quality uncertain).
Because DriveOPC internally reads cyclically active items in an active group, a watchdog can be kept
alive just by locking and putting the item on-line in the item list pane in DriveWindow. However, if you
are going to use the drive panel toolbar, which does the same thing when control is taken, we do not
recommend putting the item on-line in the item list pane, too.
The special handling explains, why you often see quality uncertain shown with the item value, when
control of the drive is taken.

8. Configuring DDCS Communication

Sometimes the physical construction of a DDCS network is such that you need to change the
communication board settings.
Configuring must be done locally. Configuring remotely is not possible. Change of the settings and its
user interface is included the communication library of DriveOPC. However, if DriveOPC is configured
to act as a remote OPC Server, all user interfaces within it are disabled.

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Note that although DriveWindow is used as the client to invoke the communication settings, it can be
done with any OPC client (WriteOPC included in DriveOPC distribution, for example), which is capable
of writing to an OPC item.
To configure the DDCS communication, close all applications, which use DriveOPC.
If you are configuring a (remote end) PC, which is configured to serve remote clients, you also have to:
• Make sure that no client will use DriveOPC, while you are configuring the DDCS
communication. If you cannot do it otherwise, you can disable DCOM by using
DCOMCNFG.EXE.
• Edit DWC_DEF.INI in the windows (winnt) folder and change Remote=1 to Remote=0 in the
[OPC] section.
In all cases, you should check DWC_DEF.INI. If it does not have [OPC] section at all, there is no
Remote key under it, or the value of Remote is zero, it is OK.
If DriveOPC version is older than 2.03 (DriveWindow 2.01 or older), and the PC has been configured
by a register change to use the local server (EXE) version of DriveOPC instead of the in-process (DLL)
version in all cases, you should revoke the register changes, so that the in-process (DLL) version is
used.
After these preparations, start DriveWindow and connect to the local DriveOPC. Put drive status
refresh off-line.
Add an item with OPC address Communication. ConfigureDialog into the item list pane

Write the channel number (0, 1, ..), which you want to configure, into the added item.

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A DDCS dialog box is presented by the DriveOPC communication library.

Note! If DriveOPC version is older than 2.03 (DriveWindow 2.01 or older), the user interface of
DriveWindow (or any other client) may be active. Please do not use it until you have closed the
dialog box. If you do, you will probably crash the client program.
Now you can change link rate, beam intensity, and busy time-out. Please do not change any other
settings. Click the Save button to save the changes and then the OK button to close the dialog box.

When you click the Save button, DriveOPC communication library always writes the changes into the
DWC_DEF.INI file in the windows (winnt) folder. When DriveOPC is restarted, it also restarts the
communication library, which reads the new settings from DWC_DEF.INI.
Repeat the writing in DriveWindow, if you want to configure other channels as well. When you are
done, close DriveWindow.
Finally, restore back the settings you possibly changed at the beginning of the procedure.

9. Special Items
In addition of the browsable items, DriveOPC contains items, which you can use, although they cannot
be browsed using the DriveWindow browse tree pane, for example.
We present here some of such items, which we think may be useful for advanced users. You can find
more information about items (browsable and non-browsable) in “User Manual.pdf” (00073846.DOC) in
DriveOPC folder, which is a sibling folder of the DriveWindow installation folder.

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OPC address Type R/W Note

{c}{a}Par.m.Description string R Description of drive parameter group m.
{c}{a}Par.m.n.Description string R Description of drive parameter m:n.
{c}{a}FL.m.Description string R Description of fault m.
{c}{a}FL.m.Status string R Status (active or reset) of fault m.
{c}{a}FL.m.Type string R Type (fault or warning) of fault m.
{c}{a}Mem.Ram.X.0Xaddr unsigned (hex) integer R/W Absolute location in X-memory.
{c}{a}Mem.Ram.Y.0Xaddr unsigned (hex) integer R/W Absolute location in Y-memory.
{c}{a}Mem.Ram.P.0Xaddr unsigned (hex) integer R/W Absolute location in P-memory.
Communication.Restart Boolean W TRUE restarts the communication.
Communication.ConfigureDialog integer W The number of the DDCS communication
channel, which is to be configured.
Configuring is done by displaying a dialog
box. Does nothing in case DriveOPC is
configured to be a remote server

10. Using Symbol Tables

Although you have access to the memory of a drive control board by using special items, that method
is too complex, if you need to access memory locations frequently.
However, if you have symbol table for the drive application program (.X01) or for the system software
(.CLD) available, you can use the symbols defined in them to access control board memory locations.
Note! Neither DriveWindow nor DriveOPC do any checking, whether a symbol table you are using is
correct version or not. It is up to you to confirm yourself that you are using a correct symbol
table.
Note that symbol table files are opened by DriveOPC. It means that using symbol tables remotely is not
an easy thing, because the opening will be done at the remote end. You need to give a path
understood by the remote end. However, you can precede the path with a your computer (UNC) name,
if the remote end has access granted to your computer, the folder, and the symbol table file.

10.1.1 Application Symbols

To open an application symbol table, browse in the browse tree pane the Pins sub-branch under the
Application sub-branch of the drive.
You can now write to the Pin file (*.x01) in the item list pane the path and the name of the symbol table
file. Note that if the file is in the DriveWindow start-in folder (usually the installation folder), you can
omit the path.
Instead of writing the path and name of the file, you can also click the browse button in the Pin file
(*.x01) dialog box.

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A the dialog box similar to an open dialog box is displayed:

• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the symbol table file resides
• Click the symbol table file you want to open
• Click Open

Note! You can also enter the name of the symbol table file into File name, with or without a directory
path.
Note! You can limit the filenames displayed by entering a wildcard construct into File name and then
clicking Open.
Path and name of the file are now shown in the Pin file (*.x01) dialog box.

If the file is found, the application constant and PC element structures will appear as sub-branches
under the Pins sub-branch in the browse tree pane. The name of the file is shown as value of the Pin
file (*.x01) item in the item list pane.

If the file could not be opened, you get an error message informing you that writing to pin file item
failed.

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The pins and constant values are shown in the item list pane, when you browse to the leaves of the
sub-branches.

You can close the symbol table file by writing an empty string to the pin file (name) in the item list pane.
After closing the file, also collapse the Pins sub-branch by double-clicking it in the browse tree pane.

10.1.2 System Software Symbols

To open a system software symbol table, browse in the browse tree pane the Ram sub-branch under
the Memory sub-branch of the drive.
You can now write to the Memory map file (*.CLD) in the item list pane the path and the name of the
symbol table file. Note that if the file is in the DriveWindow start-in folder (usually the installation folder),
you can omit the path.
Instead of writing the path and name of the file, you can also click the browse button in the Memory
map file (*.CLD) dialog box.

A the dialog box similar to an open dialog box is displayed:

• From Look in, browse into the drive and directory, in which the symbol table file resides
• Click the symbol table file you want to open
• Click Open

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If the file is found, system software symbols for X-, Y-, and P-memory will appear in sub-branches
under the corresponding sub-branches of the Ram sub-branch in the browse tree pane. The name of
the file is shown as value of the Memory map file (*.CLD) item in the item list pane.

If the file could not be opened, you get an error message informing you that writing to memory map file
item failed.
For easier handling, the symbols are arranged alphabetically in sub-branches, names of which is the
same as the first symbol in the sub-branch.
The symbol values are shown in the item list pane, when you browse to the leaves of the sub-
branches.

You can close the symbol table file by writing an empty string to the memory map file (name) in the
item list pane. After closing the file, also collapse the Ram sub-branch by double-clicking it in the
browse tree pane.

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10.1.3 Setting the Start-in Folder

If you do not have the possibility to keep the symbol table file in the default DriveWindow start-in folder
(the installation folder), but you have a constant place for them, you create or edit DriveWindow
shortcut, which has your symbol table folder defined as the start-in folder. Just right-click the shortcut
icon and select properties.

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Select the Shortcut tab, enter path of your symbol table folder into the Start in field, and click the OK
button.

When you start DriveWindow using this shortcut icon, you do not need to enter paths for symbol table
files residing in the specified symbol table folder.
If you have more than one, but not too many symbol table folders, you can create a separate shortcut
for each of them, if you wish.
See Also: Browsing Parameters and Signals
Changing Parameters

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11. Garbage Removal from Monitor Display

With some operating system/display driver/display adapter combination garbage may be seen during
real time drawing of the monitor trends. Garbage appears especially at the right end of the x-axis.

Because real time drawing must be fast, the background cannot be totally repainted all the time.
However, a periodic repaint has been added into DriveWindow version 2.12 (and newer), which
removes possible garbage periodically.
The removal period in milliseconds is determined by the value named GarbageRemovalInterval under
the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABB Oy\DriveWindow\Monitor. If no such value is found
the registry, the default value is 500 ms.
However, if x-axis length is greater than 5 times GarbageRemovalInterval, the garbage removal period
1/5 of the x-axis length is used.
Note that because GarbageRemovalInterval is under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, it is user specific.
Garbage removal causes some additional processor load. So, if your PC does not have the monitor
display garbage problem, or if your CPU is slow, you may want to change the removal period. A
hexadecimal value FFFFFFFF in practice disables the garbage removal.
Note that any changes you make take effect just when you restart DriveWindow.

11.1.1 Editing Registry

Start your favourite registry editor (RegEdit.exe, for example).

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Browse the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABB Oy\DriveWindow\Monitor. If the subkey

Monitor does not exist, you have never started DriveWindow version 2.12 (or newer). You can add the
subkey either by your registry editor or starting DriveWindow 2.12 (or newer).
If the value named GarbageRemovalInterval does not exist, you have to add it. Its type must be
DWORD.

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Change the value of GarbageRemovalInterval. Note that the value is in milliseconds. Hexadecimal
value FFFFFFFF practically disables the monitor display garbage removal.

Note that if you have DriveWindow running, you need to restart it before the change takes effect..
See Also: Monitor and Dataloggers
Fast Monitoring

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DriveWare® User’s Manual

Code: 3BFE 64560981 REV F

 2004 ABB Oy. All rights reserved.

Chapter 2 - User Interface

Chapter 3 - Workspace and Preferences

Chapter 4 - Parameters and Signals

Chapter 5 - Controlling Drives

Chapter 7 - OPC Server

Chapter 8 - System Software

Chapter 10 - Advanced Information

2. Hardware and Software Requirements......................................................................................1-3

3. Installing and Uninstalling ..........................................................................................................1-3

4. Local and Remote Use ................................................................................................................1-8

5. On-line Help ................................................................................................................................1-10

1.1.2 What is DriveWindow?

1.1.3 DriveWindow features:

1.1.4 DriveWindow functions:

1.1.5 Required DriveWindow hardware:

1.1.6 DriveWindow supports:

1.1.7 DDCS network topology:

2. Hardware and Software Requirements

2.1.2 DDCS Communication

2.1.4 Win 2000 and Win XP

3. Installing and Uninstalling

Click the Install... button.

3.1.2 Installing Hardware in Windows NT

We recommend that you install DriveWindow before installing any hardware.

3.1.3 Installing and Uninstalling Hardware in Windows 2000 and Windows XP

We recommend that you install DriveWindow before installing any hardware.

3.1.4 Uninstalling DriveWindow

After you have confirmed file deletion, uninstalling starts.

4. Local and Remote Use

Usually DriveWindow is used locally.

4.1.2 Remote Use

4.1.3 Installing for Remote Use

5.1.1 Win 2000 and Win XP

5.1.2 Opening Help

To open help, select the Contents command in the Help menu.

5.1.3 Context Sensitive Help

5.1.4 Help Structure

See Also: Help Menu

4. File Menu ......................................................................................................................................2-5

6. View Menu ..................................................................................................................................2-12

7. Network Menu ............................................................................................................................2-14

9. Desktop Menu ............................................................................................................................2-16

10. Monitor Menu..........................................................................................................................2-18

11. Datalogger Menu ....................................................................................................................2-25

12. Help Menu ...............................................................................................................................2-28

13. System Menu ..........................................................................................................................2-28

14. Toolbars ..................................................................................................................................2-29

15. Status Bar................................................................................................................................2-36

16. Window Area .......................................................................................................................... 2-37

17. Scrollbars ............................................................................................................................... 2-55

18. Common Dialogs ................................................................................................................... 2-56

19. Shortcut Keys ........................................................................................................................ 2-62

The user interface consists of the following parts:

See Also: System Menu

The menu contains the following commands and submenus:

4.1 Workspace Submenu

The menu contains the following commands:

4.2 Parameters Submenu

The menu contains the following submenu and commands:

4.2.1 Export Submenu

The menu contains the following commands:

4.3 System Software Submenu

The menu contains the following submenu and commands:

4.3.1 New Submenu

The menu contains the following commands:

4.4 Graph Submenu

The menu contains the following commands:

The menu contains the following commands:

The menu contains the following commands and submenus:

6.1 Toolbars Submenu

The menu contains the following OPC Server handling commands:

The menu contains the following drive handling commands:

See Also: Menu Bar