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Viewing/editing data with office software, Upgrading the lightbar firmware – Ag Leader EZ-Guide 250 Getting Started Guide User Manual

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To export the summary reports to the USB drive:

From the main guidance screen, press

one or more times until you have selected

.

1.

Press

. The Configuration screen appears.

2.

From the Configuration screen, select Data Management / Summary Reports. The Summary Reports
screen appears.

3.

Ensure that a USB drive is inserted into the EZ−Guide 250 USB slot.

4.

Select Send Summary Reports to USB and then press

. The Send Summary to USB screen appears.

5.

Do one of the following:

6.

Select the name of the summary report to send.

Select All to send all summary reports to the USB drive.

Select Send and then press

.

7.

To view the summary report:

Insert the USB drive into an office computer.

1.

On the USB drive, locate the appropriate RTF file in the \AgGPS\Summaries\ directory.

2.

Double−click on the field that you want to load.

3.

To save the file, copy it to the office computer.

Viewing/Editing Data with Office Software

The EZ−Guide 250 lightbar guidance system saves field information in shapefile format. Each shapefile is made
up of three files:

example.shp − position information

example.shx − index file that links the position information with its attributes

example.dbf − feature attributes

Keep these files together when you copy or move the data.

Data collected by the EZ−Guide 250 lightbar can be opened directly into the EZ−Office(TM) software. For more
information, go to www.EZ−OfficeSoftware.com.

Upgrading the Lightbar Firmware

To view the current lightbar firmware version:

Select Configuration / About the EZ−Guide.

1.

Check the Version number:

2.

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