Click on the Info fields node of the Files branch of the corresponding data storage to open the dialog. Here, you can set the signals (analog, digital or text signals) to be stored as info fields in the data files and the time they should be acquired.

Select signals to include in the file as info fields:

In the right part of the signal tree, you will find all modules with analog, digital and text signals as you defined them in the I/O Manager.

Enable the selection boxes in order to select individual signals or complete modules to be stored in the data file.

When analyzing with ibaAnalyzer, you will find the information of the info fields in the info header of the data file.

In the info fields, only one current value per data file is entered and saved, either at the start or at the end of the data file recording (see below).

Acquire signal values

By choosing this option, you determine when the values are used by an analog, digital or text signal for recording.

• At file open / start trigger: The current signal values are transferred into the data file at the start of a recording. Signal value changes during a recording process are taken into consideration for the next file at the earliest.

• At file close / stop trigger: The signal values are first transferred into the data file at the end of the recording. Signal values can be received, changed and sent again during a running recording. The last signal value received before closing the file will be taken. This option should be selected if the desired information is not available at the start of the recording.

Reuse text signal values

This option prompts ibaPDA to keep the received text information after reading instead of deleting it as usual. So, you make sure that new data files are supplied with the same text signal values in case no new text has been received.

When using the text signal for naming the file, ibaPDA automatically adds an incrementing index in order to provide unambiguous data file names.

Info field names: Replace ":" with ... and replace "." with ...

The use of ":" and "." in info fields can cause problems in the course of further processing and analysis of the data by other systems. In ibaPDA, these characters are used, e.g., in the signal IDs (analog [Module:Channel], digital [Module.Channel]).

To avoid such problems, you can have the characters ":" and/or "." replaced by other, permissible characters here.

Enable the desired option and enter the new character in the field next to it.