Eurotherm Report5000 Explained

Neville ChildApplications EngineerEurotherm Ltd.

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Excel Techniques

• Ctrl+C– Copy selected data

• Ctrl+V– Paste data from clipboard

• F4 (on cell range)– Convert from relative to

absolute cell addressing (A1 to $A$1)

• Edit – Fill – Series– Fill a column/row of cells

with incrementing numbers

• Ctrl+Alt+F9– Refresh the worksheet

• Ctrl+Home– Moves to the

beginning of the worksheet (A1)

• Ctrl+End– Moves to the end of

the used part of the worksheet

• Alt+F11– Opens Visual Basic

• Excel Help gives a complete list of shortcut keys by searching on “Keyboard Shortcuts”

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Excel Techniques

• Producing the ability to print barcode data– Install a barcode font to the PC. A simple Code39

font is on the CD (\Samples\BarcodeFont_code39.zip)

– Select the cell(s) with the data you require viewed/printed as a barcode and change the font for that cell to the barcode font

– 123456 = 123456– Ideal for batch reports to produce

documentation/labels for the next process stage

– The Excel function UPPER converts text to upper case for use with the above barcode font eg

If cell E5 contains "yield", then: UPPER(E5) equals "YIELD"

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Techniques – UHistoryQuickStart.xls

• The Report5000 Product CD contains an Excel workbook (\Samples\UHistoryQuickStart.xls) that works through many of the simpler techniques– Name(s) of Instruments in the Review Database

– Names(s) of the Groups in the Review Database

– Names of the Channel Tags in the Review Database

– Batch selection from the Review Database

– Start/end time for data in the Review Database

– Selecting specific data in the Review Database

– Example Batch and Date/Time reports

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Techniques – UHistoryQuickStart.xls

• We will now work through the UHistoryQuickStart.xls file to understand how that works– This file can be found on the Report5000 CD \

Samples\UHistoryQuickStart.xls

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Using Visual basic programming (with the UH_*Column commands) will normally give a much smaller workbook file (.xls) than entering formulae into each cell separately

• Visual Basic programming gives huge flexibility in the specification and programming of functionality

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Ensure that Report5000 UHistory is accessible to Visual Basic by ticking the Visual Basic TOOLS-REFERENCES and tick the UHistory box– Access Visual Basic

from Excel using Alt+F11 or via the toolbars

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Ensure all formatting is EXACT – VB doesn’t work if not– Ensure string format has

quotation marks (“x”) around it

– Ensure date string has hash marks (#00:00:00#)around it

• Function parameters can be put onto separate lines by adding a space and underscore on the previous line– Previous parameter,

_<CR>Next parameter, _<CR>Next parameter

– Aids readability

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Change location of the Review database– Use the function

UH_SetArchivePath using Visual Basic

– Place this in the Workbook Open module

– Each time the workbook is opened it will take data from the Review database file specified

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Refresh the Review database using a button click– Use the function

UH_RefreshData when a command button is pressed

– This can also be used in the Workbook Open module

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Fill a column with data using Visual Basic function calls

– UH_GetBatchNameColumn

– UH_GetMessageCategoryColumn

– UH_GetMessageTextColumn

– UH_GetMessageTimestampColumn

– UH_GetChannelStatusColumn

– UH_GetChannelValueColumn

– UH_GetDigitalChannelValueStringColumn

– UH_GetRawSampleChannelValueColumn

– UH_GetRawTimestampColumn

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Techniques – Visual Basic

• Auto-print at the end of a batch.– Available if both Review is running (configured

to ‘auto-backup and transfer’ at the end of a batch) and the Excel workbook is running

– Print ‘any’ data to ‘any’ printer(s) with any number of copies

– Configured using Visual Basic

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Now to produce a ‘Real’ Report

• It is important to ensure that you rename your sheets before you start using the functions

• It is important that the Visual Basic ‘Tools - References’ to UHistory are set up before you start

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Daily Steam Energy Report

• We are now going to produce a Steam Energy Report Based on:-– 5000 series data files found in the folder \

SteamEnergyData on the course CD

– The paper sample template being handed around

• Please work at your own rate and ASK– Don’t be afraid we’ve been there!!!!