### Options Icon (for Data Editor tab)

The Options icon contains these menu items:

(Hiding this in case it comes back)

Selection Mode - This submenu determines what is selected in the Data Editor when you click on the rows and columns. It contains two selection modes:

- Rows - If you select this and click on a cell, the entire row will be selected. Clicking and dragging a box in this mode highlights entire rows.

- Columns - If you select this and click on a cell, only one cell will be selected. However, you can move your mouse near the bottom border of a column header until your mouse cursor changes to this icon , and then by clicking you can select the entire column. Clicking and dragging a box around items in this mode highlights exactly what you select.

Control Limits - DataPage+ automatically calculates XUCL, XCL, XLCL, RUCL, RCL, and RLCL for all selected feature variables. However, if you want to manually type a control limit, you can do so by editing the fields in the Calculated Control Limits dialog box, which appears when you select this menu option. If saved control limits exist, this dialog box is initialized with that data. Otherwise, the default calculated control limits from the software are used.

Calculated Control Limits dialog box

- Part and CNC- These lists lets you filter the items in the dialog box by the selected part name and/or CNC machine when you click Query.

- Query - This button filters the information in this dialog box by what you have selected in the Part and CNC lists.

- Calculate - This overrides any customized values with the automatically calculated control limits from the software.

- Save - This button exports the contents of this dialog box into a format suitable for use by Microsoft Excel. A Save As dialog box appears allowing you to choose the filename and path for the file, as well as the file's output format (xml or csv). This can then be loaded into DataPage+ later.

- Load - This button imports a previously exported csv file containing calculated control limits data.

- Close - Closes the dialog box.

- Apply - Applies the changes to the calculated control limits to the part or parts. This button sends these values to the database, and DataPage+ will use them as needed. This means, however, that even if changes have been made to the transactions, DataPage+ will not automatically recalculate the control limits. Rather, it will get them directly from the stored values in the database. If you ever want to remove the stored values from the database, there are two ways to do this:

- 1. Clearing Values Using the Feature Monitor Tab - In the Feature Monitor tab, select the desired feature variables. Right-click, under Control Limits, choose Freeze Control limits. Choose the affected transactions, and then click OK. This clears out all the values, including XUCL, XLCL, XCL, RUCL, RCL, and RLCL. See "Feature Monitor Shortcut Menu".

  2. Clearing Values Using the Data Editor Tab - In the Data Editor tab, click on the Measurement tab, use the Options toolbar icon discussed in this topic above, and set the Selection Mode to Rows. Drag to select the variables you want to edit, right-click and choose Edit Variables. The variables dialog box appears. Use this dialog box to clear the control limits values. You can do so by clearing values on by one; or just like using freezing control limits in method one above, you can clear the Constant individual control limits and the Constant subgroup control limits check boxes and then click the To All button. See "Editing Feature Variables" for information on using this dialog box to affect multiple feature variables.

See also:

- Control Limits

Options - This displays the Data Editor Options dialog box so you can define options for the Data Editor tab.

Data Editor Options dialog box

Disable warning message display - Normally when you edit data in the Data Editor, a dialog box appears asking if you're sure you want to make changes to the data and requires that you input a cause code for the data change. When marked, this option disables any such warning or error messages when editing data in the Data Editor. By default, this check box is cleared.

Display nominals - This sets the default display state of the Nominals column in the Data Editor.

Display tolerances - This sets the default display state of upper and lower tolerances (Upper Tol and Lower Tol) columns in the Data Editor.

Display control limits - This sets the default display state of the various control limits columns for the Individual and for Subgroup chart in the Data Editor. The columns this shows or hides are IXLCL, IXCL, IXUCL, IRLCL, IRCL, IRUCL, SXLCL, SXCL, SXUCL, SRLCL, SRCL, and SRUCL.

The following control limit columns are displayed for the Subgroup Chart: SXLCL, SXCL, SXUCL, SRLCL, SRCL, SRUCL

The following control limit columns are displayed for the Individual Chart: IXLCL, IXCL, IXUCL, IRLCL, IRCL, IRUCL

Need to input a cause when change measured data - This sets whether or not the reason for the change of data should be declared.

If any data value is changed then the Re-Measure the current cell dialog box appears:

Select or type the appropriate reason in the box.