User's Manual

DPC/TRACK Essentials
Creating & Deleting Records
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7. Assuming the calibrator is attached to the appropriate serial port and ready to
communicate, select the Load button on the Calibrator Manager screen.
Depending upon DPC/TRACK’s setup options, you may be given the chance
of printing a report during the loading process. If results were found on the
calibrator, they will be unloaded before your load occurs. In this event, you
may be asked whether or not to return the test parameters corresponding to the
unloaded results back to the calibrator. From there, you may then be asked to
enter test equipment information. If so, select Done to continue. You may
then be given the opportunity to enter certain post-test information. If so,
select Done to continue. Following this, you may be given the chance to print
a load report. Respond as you like to continue.
8. After the loading process is complete, perform the test as described in the
“Performing a Test on the Calibrator” section within Appendix B, “Fluke
Calibrators.”
Note
Proceeding from this point will add a permanent Test Results record
to your database. You will not be able to delete this record since it
won’t be considered a “sample” record by DPC/TRACK, even
though SAMPLETAG6 is a sample record. (You may just want to
read along from this point.)
9. Having performed the test, we are now ready to transfer the results back to
DPC/TRACK. To do this, make sure the calibrator is attached and ready to
communicate, then select the Unload button on the Calibrator Manager
screen.
10. Depending upon DPC/TRACK’s setup options, you may be asked whether or
not to return to the calibrator the parameters corresponding to the unloaded
results. Respond as you like to continue. From here, you may then be asked to
enter test equipment information. Select Done to continue.
11. DPC/TRACK allows certain post-test information to be included within your
Test Results (per your setup options). When you are done entering such
information, select the Done button to return to the Calibrator Manager
screen. Following this, you may be given the chance to print an unload report.
Respond as you like to continue.
12. Select the Main Menu button to return to the Main Menu.
Note that our Test Results record includes reference to the particular piece of
equipment that was employed for this test. Since our Test Equipment database did
not already have a record for the particular piece of equipment used, a record was
automatically added by DPC/TRACK during the unload. Further note that the
value within the Testers field reflects the calibrator ID. Other testing-related
issues are discussed in Chapter 5, “Testing.”