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[[File:Badge vMx.png]]For Cumulus MX, when you select a line, both '''Edit''' and '''Delete''' buttons are enabled. Pick Edit, click that and an editing screen pops up, that does not let you change the line number nor the date, but all other fields show their current contents and you can overtype as necessary. Scroll down to see 2 buttons (how they are labelled depends on which version you are using), the left button ignores any edits you have made (it is 'cancel' even if it is labelled 'close'), and the right hand button saves your changes (even if it is labelled 'Edit'). | [[File:Badge vMx.png]]For Cumulus MX, when you select a line, both '''Edit''' and '''Delete''' buttons are enabled. There is no way of inserting new lines into dayfile.txt from within MX, nor of changing the dates in the file. | ||
=== Editing inside MX === | |||
Pick Edit, click that and an editing screen pops up, that does not let you change the line number nor the date, but all other fields show their current contents and you can overtype as necessary. Scroll down to see 2 buttons (how they are labelled depends on which version you are using), the left button ignores any edits you have made (it is 'cancel' even if it is labelled 'close'), and the right hand button saves your changes (even if it is labelled 'Edit'). | |||
=== Editing externally === | |||
If you want to recalculate the values and time-stamp for any entry in dayfile.txt from reading the [[Monthly log files|detailed log file]] to extract all values relevant to that day and do the necessary minimum/maximum/total/average calculation, MX does not have that capability, but it can be done in a script if you are a programmer. I have done this, but it was not as easy as I thought, the log file you read from may have duplicate times potentially making the calculation harder, and you cannot edit the file as you go along, you basically rename the old file and create a new file with original name as you work through all days changing individual fields whenever you need to. | If you want to recalculate the values and time-stamp for any entry in dayfile.txt from reading the [[Monthly log files|detailed log file]] to extract all values relevant to that day and do the necessary minimum/maximum/total/average calculation, MX does not have that capability, but it can be done in a script if you are a programmer. I have done this, but it was not as easy as I thought, the log file you read from may have duplicate times potentially making the calculation harder, and you cannot edit the file as you go along, you basically rename the old file and create a new file with original name as you work through all days changing individual fields whenever you need to. | ||