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=== File specific Editing Rules === | === File specific Editing Rules === | ||
[[File:Open office (editing cumulus log files).png| right]] | [[File:Open office (editing cumulus log files).png| right]] | ||
# The file should be saved without "Byte Order Mark", specialised text editors will include a menu where you select the encoding and can select not to include BOM. | # The file should be saved without "Byte Order Mark", specialised text editors will include a menu where you select the encoding and can select not to include BOM. | ||
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=== Using the Cumulus 1 editing feature === | === Using the Cumulus 1 editing feature === | ||
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'''This section applies to Cumulus 1.x.y only'''. The last command in '''Edit''' [[Cumulus_Screenshots#File.2FEdit.2FHelp_Menu |menu]] is ''dayfile.txt''. ''This is how you view'' the dayfile.txt from within Cumulus. This is a text editor, so you can type new values over those currently displayed, insert and delete rows, and it works best when at full screen. Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive. | '''This section applies to Cumulus 1.x.y only'''. The last command in '''Edit''' [[Cumulus_Screenshots#File.2FEdit.2FHelp_Menu |menu]] is ''dayfile.txt''. ''This is how you view'' the dayfile.txt from within Cumulus. This is a text editor, so you can type new values over those currently displayed, insert and delete rows, and it works best when at full screen. Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive. | ||
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The only method available at the time of writing involves multiple steps: | The only method available at the time of writing involves multiple steps: | ||
#*Either use '''ExportMySQL.exe monthly''' to create a database table called "monthly", and read all the standard logs into that database table | #*Either use '''ExportMySQL.exe monthly''' to create a database table called "monthly" (you can call it another name, but you must have set name in MX, before you run ExportMySQL.exe), and read all the standard logs into that database table | ||
#*Or if you already have the table and have MX updating the standard logs into that database table | #*Or if you already have the table and have MX updating the standard logs into that database table | ||
#Then, you can fairly easily update to add any missing values into existing columns in this monthly table, and from it update columns in a daily summary table. See [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18096 this post in support forum] where I describe two PHP scripts designed for this type of task. | #Then, you can fairly easily update to add any missing values into existing columns in this monthly table, and from it update columns in a daily summary table. See [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18096 this post in support forum] where I describe two PHP scripts designed for this type of task. | ||
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There is a dayfile editor within the admin interface to edit this log file. | There is a dayfile editor within the admin interface to edit this log file. | ||
Only from MX version 3.6.0 has this been able to read the log file if it has some lines that were created using Cumulus 1 (with less than 46 fields. In the same version of MX, the number of fields in this log file was increased by 4. From that version all lines viewed in this editor will have 50 fields. The content of any field that was not in the line when it was created will be an empty string as far as this editor is concerned and any line edited and saved, therefore gains all these empty fields and will be stored as 50 fields | Only from MX version 3.6.0 has this been able to read the log file if it has some lines that were created using Cumulus 1 (with less than 46 fields). In the same version of MX, the number of fields in this log file was increased by 4 when Feels Like temperature was added. From that version all lines viewed in this editor will have 50 fields. The content of any field that was not in the line when it was created will be an empty string as far as this editor is concerned and any line edited and saved, therefore gains all these empty fields and will be stored as 50 fields until version 3.6.10. | ||
From Emergency Version 3.6.12 (formally released in 3.7.0), all lines have 54 fields. The extras are Canadian Humidity Index (Humidex). | |||
[[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. | [[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. | ||