Ag Leader EZ-Guide 500 Getting Started Guide - Manual (Page 83)

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Note: A field must contain coverage for you to be able to generate a Summary Report.
To manually create a field summary:
Open the appropriate field. 1.
From the main guidance screen, press one or more times until you have selected . 2.
Press . The Configuration screen appears. 3.
From the Configuration screen, select Data Management / Summary Reports. The Summary Reports
screen appears. 4.
Select Create Summary Report Now and then press . The summary report is saved to the lightbar's
internal memory.
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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 500 USB slot. 4.
Select Send Summary Reports to USB and then press . The Send Summary Reports to USB screen
appears.
5.
Do one of the following: 6.
Select the name of the summary report to send.
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Select All to send all summary reports to the USB drive.
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Select Send and then press . 8.
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 500 lightbar guidance system saves field information in shapefile format. Each shapefile is made
up of three files:
example.shp − position information
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example.shx − index file that links the position information with its attributes
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example.dbf − feature attributes
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Keep these files together when you copy or move the data.
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