The File menu offers some basic operations such as opening and saving projects, activation of password protection and exiting the program.

New project / Open project / Save project

These functions refer to the ibaPDA project management. You can save different projects, i.e. I/O configurations, data stores and layouts.

For more information, see Configuring the system.

Create shortcut

With this command, users can create shortcuts on the desktop for starting the ibaPDA client. By using this function, multiple clients can be run simultaneously on the same computer, as a configuration file is saved for every shortcut created. The individual clients can be connected to different servers, each of them with a different layout.

For more information, see Starting multiple clients on the same computer.

Print setup / Print

The print function includes only those parts, shown in the signal monitor area, i.e. trend graphs, FFT views, camera views, scope views, etc. Log, status and signal tree windows will NOT be printed. By clicking on the Print command, the printing process of the entire signal monitor area starts immediately.

If you want to print only certain views, right-click on the caption of the subject view and select “Print from the context menu. The caption is standardized and contains date and time, layout name and the version number of ibaPDA.

Click on Print setup to open the dialog for the printer setup. In addition to the common print settings such as paper size, orientation, etc., you can decide whether or not to add a caption and/or a border around the image.

To change the color settings for printing, see Settings for printing views.

Log out from ibaPDA server/ibaHD server

This command drops the connection to the ibaPDA server or ibaHD-Server.

Exit

Exit the ibaPDA client program. The server and hence the data acquisition and data storage continue.