STEP-BY-STEP MANUAL, ASCII-IMPORT OF TIDAL DATA - Eiva

STEP-BY-STEP MANUAL, ASCII-IMPORT OF TIDAL DATA

Step 1 of 5 in the ASCII-interpreter wizard is to choose the file to import. First choose ’Add’ and browse for file.

Choose file in question and press ‘Open’

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Now press ‘Next’.

Step 2 of the wizard is to choose the import template. Choose data type to import ‘Tide’. If you do not have an acceptable template, highlight the ‘EIVA tide format’ and press ‘Edit selected’

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Click ’Space’ and ’Comma’ on as column separators. Then choose ’Next’

Choose Primitive type ‘Integer’ for all columns except col#5

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Choose Primitive type ‘Double’ for col #5 – then choose ‘Next’

Select Output field ‘TimeDate (Double)’ and choose encoding and input columns as shown above – then choose ‘Next’.

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Select Output field ‘Tide (m, up+) (Double)’ and choose encoding and input columns as shown above. Then choose ‘Next’.

Choose default values in this window. Then choose ‘Finish’.

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Save new format with the name you specify.

Step 2 is to use the new template to import the tidal-file. Choose template by highlighting it as shown above and press ‘Next’.

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Choose default settings in step 3.


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Select folder to place file into.

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Report looks as shown above – press ‘OK’ to finalize the wizard.

In data-editor, the file looks as shown above.

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In header-editor, the file looks as shown above.

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