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13.2. Setting up Operation Logging
You can set up the operation logging with the Operation Logging dialog box. In this dialog, you can determine the required
memory for operation logging buffer, specify how to save the operation logs to a text file. To open the dialog box, please
double click the node named Operation Logging in the PM Designer’s Project Manager tool window or use Operation
Logging… command on the Panel menu. The following is an example of the Operation logging dialog box.
The table below describes each property in the Operation Logging Properties dialog.
Property
Description
Check this option to enable the operation logging.
Buffer Size
The size of operation logging buffer. The unit is K words. The buffer size can be
specified between 1 and 512 K words.
Enable
operation
logging
Approximate number
of operations can be
logged
The maximum number of operation loggers that the operation logging buffer can
hold. The formula to calculate the approximate number is: Number = Buffer Size
* 1024 * 2 / 64
Check this option so the newly operation loggers will be written to a specified file
periodically. Each time when performing the saving, the panel writes only the
operation loggers that are not saved to a file before.
File Name
The filename or the prefix of the filename of the file to save the operation
loggers. The operation loggers are saved in text format and the file extension
name must be “.txt”. You can use any text editor and Microsoft Excel to view the
operation loggers directly. This item is available when the option Save Data to
File is checked.
Save
Data to
File
Time to Save
Specifies the period to save the operation loggers. This item is available when
the option Save Data to File is checked. There are nine kinds of period
available: Every hour on the hour ; Every 8 hours (00:00, 08:00, 16:00) ; Every
12 hours (00:00, 12:00) Every day at 00:00; Every day at 08:00; Every day at
12:00; Every Sunday at 00:00; Every Monday at 00:00; Every month's first day
at 00:00.
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