I'm sorry, but both things are not possible.

Arthur, see whether you can get some idea, I have a folder with multiple ASCII files. I'll export their content to a database. But I need to add a value in the table for each different file exported. Is there any way to add some data in the database additionally to the existing data in ASCII file? Or I can only export to database only those data extracted from the ASCII file?

Fixed. Please, try it with your servers:
http://www.dataloggersuite.com/download/data-logger-suite.exe

Hi Arthur, I have tested the new version and now it's working fine with all DDE servers. Thank you very much for your quick assistance.

I've repeated this error today and forwarded to our programmers. I'll notify here about updates.

Hi Arthur, great. So I will look forward for this update. Thank you very much

same error message, the data logger will call another instance of the DDE server while the orignal DDE server is running ...

The connection is failing with invalidparameter.

Arthur, when can we have solving this issue?

When will we have an answer here? No server is working for me, already tested on all Windows versions. I need to send the DDE server? It has no other way to test this?
Thanks.

same error message, the data logger will call another instance of the DDE server while the orignal DDE server is running ...

Hello,

Could you explain your needs a bit more (by example)?

Hi Arthur, let me explain a bit more.

I have an ASCII file which a line is written every X seconds into it. I collect this line using DataLoggerSuite every time it is written in ASCII file. What I need from this point are 2 things:

1) Insert in the line which I am collecting the name of the ASCII file that was collected. For example I have collected a row with two columns from file Example.txt. Then the contents of this file will be 100,200 (two columns by CSV). By collecting this line with DataLoggerSuite I need to add in this row the file name, in this case it looks like this: Example,100,200 (file name + two columns originally collected from ASCII file).

2) Now I need to convert the file name that I have added in the row ("Example" in this case) to a preset value so I can export this value to the database and not the file name. Suppose that Example (file name that I have collected) corresponds to value 1 then I will export to the database the following line: 1,100,200

Can I do these two procedures? Or at least one of them?

Thanks

Hello,
Can I include the file name in the ASCII contents when I'm importing the ASCII file? Or can I only capture the contents of the file that was modified?

Also after capturing the file name can I convert it to a corresponding number and export it to the MySQL database?

Can I do these 2 things?

Thanks

Could you specify the program name? Can we test these servers too?

Hi Arthur, the programs are commercial, and I can only use them with the license, then it gets tricky you test them unfortunately. But I'll see what I can do... thanks anyway

Hello,
I'm trying to use a DDE interface, but I'm not able to connect to the DDE server, I get the following message:
24/01/13 14:48:40 [data source #1] DDE interface. Error while connecting to DDE server "ddeserver"

I tried 2 DDE servers (which are working normally in Excel) and I've tried on both WinXP and Win7. But without success. What could it be?

Thank you.

Hello Edgar,

In your case I would recommend to filter out some data if it possible. Otherwise, you can place our software on a computer with the database, it will decrease delays.

FYI: Also, I'm not sure that DDE can really update items with millisecond delay.

Hi Arthur,
thanks for the reply. Yes, Data Logger Suite is on the same computer with the database. My doubt was regarding the best plugin to be used to export the DDE items to the database. In the case of working with DDE I use ODBC (which is used by default by the software)? or SQL Database Professional plugin can also be used?
Thanks.
Edgar

Hi,
I'm using the Data Logger Suite to store DDE data and export it to a MySQL database and I'm not sure how the best way to do it in terms of performance. I will work with thousands of DDE items being updated in real time with millisecond delay. So to export this amount of data to the database should I use the SQL Database Professional plugin instead of the ODBC? In this case which would be the advantage of SQL Database Professional plugin compared to ODBC?

Cheers.
Edgar