Update Your Data File for a Log Design

The Data Editor’s Data | Update Data File from Log Design option is used to update an existing data file so that it will contain all of the necessary datasheets for the components of the current log design.

Example

Your company likes the logs you have already been generating with the program, and they want you to add 2 new items to the log’s design. You add them to the design, use Update Data File from Log Design to update the existing data file with the required datasheets, complete the new data items, and compile the data into a log design. Here's a diagram of this workflow:

How to update an existing data file for the current log design

1. If necessary, click on the Log Designer tab and open the log design you wish to use.
   
2. Click on the Data Editor tab of an open data file, or open the existing data file you wish to update.
   
3. Select the Data| Update Data File from Log Design menu option.

   LogPlot will check the contents of the current data file against the entities in the current log design. For any design entities which have no corresponding data tabs, it will create these datasheets in the Data Editor window.

4. Enter the data into the new data tabs. (See Data Tab Summary for details.)
   
5. Save the data file.

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