DataConnectIT:Options

4. Options

To access the settings/options in DataConnectIT, press the “Tools” button in the Main Window and then press “Options”.

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When you have pressed “Options”, a window with options will be displayed like in the picture below:

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There are three categories in the options:

• Device
• Log
• Notification

4.1 Device

Device Timeout:

• In this option, select when the device has to stop (in seconds)

Device Time Warning:

• Select the time you want for a warning to pop up when the device is getting slow

Reset Controller Response On Startup:

• Select Yes if you want to Set all group response tags to 99 and back to 0 on service startup, this can help a connected PLC to unstuck

4.2 Log

Log Type:

• In the Log type you can select in which type of log you want.

Here you have two options:

1. The first option is in a Text file;
2. The second option is in the Event viewer in Windows. In the second option, you need to run as an Admin in order to enable it

Log Degree:

• In the log degree, you select the level of logging from the application.

In this category there are 4 options:

1. None, which basically stops the logging
2. Only error and warnings
3. Only changes
4. Everything

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Log Folder:

• In this section you select the destination folder of the log file
• To change the location, you can manually write the path or navigate through the application

4.3 Notification

Notification interval:

• In this option, you select how often a notification should pop up (in seconds)

Notification degree:

• Here you select the types of the notifications you want to get from the application

• There are four options of notification degrees:

1. None: You do not get any notification
2. Only errors
3. Only errors and warnings
4. All changes

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In the end when you have set all the options, you must press the Save button. When you have pressed it in the left corner, you will get a message that says “Updated”, or you will get the error message.