Installation
After inserting the Dataway CD into your CD Drive, the above menu will be displayed. From here, selecting the Install option will begin the install process.
Clicking on the Help option will bring up this help file.
The Exit option will close the Menu.
Welcome to Dataway
Welcome to the Dataway software, a software package created to download and process results from a range of Jenway instruments. This software has been designed so that it is simple to use and gives you the opportunity to achieve maximum productivity with the minimum of efforts.
This help file is has been produced to guide you through getting the most out of this software. This document shows screenshots of the major areas of the software, with written instructions describing how separate areas operate and the functions available.
Supported Instruments
At present, supported instruments include:
∙3510 - pH meter.
∙3520 - pH meter.
∙3540 - Combined pH and Conductivity meter.
∙4510 - Conductivity meter.
∙4520 - Conductivity meter.
∙6400/5 - Spectrophotometer.
∙6500/5 - Spectrophotometer.
∙Genova - Spectrophotometer.
More instruments will be added to this list as they are required and will be available for download from our website at Jenway.com.
Help and support
For the latest help and support please visit the Jenway Software website.
Starting the software
Once the software has been activated, all of the instruments on the search screen will have 'Unscanned' written next to them. In order to scan for the relevant instruments, the tick boxes to the left of the instrument name must be selected. After this has been done, clicking 'Search' will look for the instruments that have been selected. This may take some time, depending on the number of instruments you have selected.
Once all the instruments have been searched for, all the instruments found will be shown as 'Available' on the list as shown below.
Next to each of the available instruments is a button, which can be used to connect to that instrument. Once selected and the instrument has successfully connected, the 'Available' tag changes to a 'Connected' tag. If 'Connected' is not shown, the connection attempt has failed and a message will appear telling you that the connection to the specified instrument has not been successful as shown below:
If an error occurs when trying to connect to an instrument, the PC is again scanned for instruments to locate any change in the connection of instruments.
At the bottom of this screen is a tick box labelled 'Auto-connect at next start up'.
Selection of this option, provides instrument connection without user intervention, from the next use of Dataway. By checking this box, the software will connect to the last available instrument in the displayed list and continue into the main program. The 'Auto connect' preference can be unspecified on the Setup screen.
The Search button forces the software to search again for instruments in case the software has not found a newly added instrument.
The Cancel button exits the software.
Once the instrument has been connected, click on the OK button to continue into the main application. It is possible to bypass the selection of an instrument and enter the main software in offline mode by just selecting the OK button before choosing an instrument to connect to.
Home Tab
The home tab is the screen that welcomes you when you have connected to an instrument. From here you have access to all other areas of the software.
At the top right of this screen is the Search button. Search allows you to scan the PC for any instruments that may have been installed since the current software session began.
The Tabs
Along the top of the screen there is a row of tabs as shown below:
These tabs enable you to access different areas of the software.
The Toolbar
The toolbar is located at the top of the page and has a number of buttons that can be used to process and handle data.
From left to right:
Open File
Open a file containing data saved by the Dataway software into the main 'Data Manager' area.
Save File
Save the current data into a file, which can be opened at a later time for analysis.
Open the print dialog screen to select the type of printout required for the current data.
Copy
Click on the arrow next to the copy button to select the data destination. Two options are available, copy to the clipboard or copy directly into Microsoft Excel®. Selecting Excel® from this list will open a copy of Excel® with the data from the 'Data Manager' and paste the data automatically as formatted in Dataway.
Copying to the clipboard will put all the data into the clipboard, ready to be pasted to another application. If a destination is not selected and the copy button is used, the data will by default be copied to the clipboard.
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