#### Creating New Transactions

The easiest way to create new transactions is to automatically send them from PC-DMIS; however, there may be times when you need to insert new transactions manually in order to input data into Datapage+ that you could not insert any other way. In the Data Editor tab, you can insert transactions into either the Measurement Data sub tab or the Trace Field sub tab.

To Insert Transactions Using the Measurement Data Tab

1. Select the Data Editor tab. If it is not available, select Tools | View Selection and mark the Editor check box.

2. Click on the Measurement Data tab.

3. Right click anywhere in the grid of rows and columns.

4. Select the New Transaction menu item from the resulting shortcut menu. The Create New Transaction dialog box appears.

5. Fill out this dialog box. See "Create New Transaction Dialog box" below.

6. Click OK. Datapage+ will take a brief moment to add the new transactions into the database and refresh the screen.

To Insert Transactions Using the Trace Field Tab

1. Select the Data Editor tab. If it is not available, select Tools | View Selection and mark the Editor check box.

2. Click on the Trace Field tab.

3. Click the Options icon and under Selection mode, choose Rows.

4. Right click anywhere in the grid of rows and columns.

5. Select the New Transaction menu item from the resulting shortcut menu. The Create New Transaction dialog box appears.

6. Fill out this dialog box. See "Create New Transaction Dialog box" below.

7. Click OK. Datapage+ will take a brief moment to add the new transactions into the database and refresh the screen.

Create New Transaction Dialog Box

Create New Transaction dialog box

Count - This value indicates the number of transactions you will be adding into the grid.

Date and Time - This area determines the dates that will be used for the transactions.

- Last DateTime - This causes new transactions to use the most recent transaction date and time in the grid as a base date. As the new transactions are added, their dates will be modified according to the value in the Increased by box and the unit of time from the Units list.

- Current DateTime - This functions the same as Last date except that the current date and time is used instead.

- Other DateTime - This functions the same as Last date except that you can specify the starting date by using the drop down list to pick a date:
  The drop down list provides fields where you can create your own date and time of the transaction.

- A - Clicking this field allows you to type the transaction date in MM/DD/YYYY format.

- B - Clicking this icon displays a calendar from which you can choose transaction date using your mouse.

- C - Clicking these fields allow you to type the hour, minutes, and seconds of the transaction in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format.

- D - Clicking these spinners will increment or decrement the selected field HH:MM:SS field.

Increased by - This determines the units of time that passes between each transaction. So, for example, if you have a value of 5 in the Increased by box with Units set to Days, each new transaction would have a date five days later than the previous transaction.

Units - This determines the unit of time that Datapage+ uses to increase the date for each newly added transaction.