Hi, Matt! Glad to see you're still helping us users. I'm interested in this subject also. I'm trying to Prep for the move to Windows 7 & upgrading Pcdmis & D/Page+ but our IT Dept. says for security reasons we'll need an independent SQL Server at a cost of $40,000! Doesn't make sense to me, especially since we only have one seat of Pcdmis actually sending to D/Page at the moment. I've been touting the benefits of D/Page & D/View to the powers that be, but after reading the above comments, maybe I should be looking for a reporting alternative. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You can STILL GET Windows XP, both in 32 & 64 bit, Datapage 3.x still works in the 32bit version of XP, not sure about the 64bit (I'm using XP32 and Pcdmis V3.7 & DP V3.32).
There is always the option of using Excel for your stat gathering, as long as you aren't talking about trying to keep track of hundreds or thousands of samples at one time, the PCD2EXCEL function/wizard is there, but I don't know how well it works as I've never used it.
Of course, as you can tell, this thread died after I 'suggested' that Hex fix their fix and I've not heard that it has been 'fixed' so that the simple old STATS/ON command works like it used to work. If it now requires some external command to get it to update correctly, then they need to CODE THAT into Pcdmis so that the STATS/ON does it without you having to put in more code or frog around some other way. I mean, that USED TO BE their "sweet selling point" for Datapage, "It works hand-in-hand with Pcdmis with the insertion of this single command in the program, no other operator input required, and it can be turned off with a single keystroke." But, I guess that isn't important anymore, eh?
Hi, Matt! Glad to see you're still helping us users. I'm interested in this subject also. I'm trying to Prep for the move to Windows 7 & upgrading Pcdmis & D/Page+ but our IT Dept. says for security reasons we'll need an independent SQL Server at a cost of $40,000! Doesn't make sense to me, especially since we only have one seat of Pcdmis actually sending to D/Page at the moment. I've been touting the benefits of D/Page & D/View to the powers that be, but after reading the above comments, maybe I should be looking for a reporting alternative. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You can STILL GET Windows XP, both in 32 & 64 bit, Datapage 3.x still works in the 32bit version of XP, not sure about the 64bit (I'm using XP32 and Pcdmis V3.7 & DP V3.32).
There is always the option of using Excel for your stat gathering, as long as you aren't talking about trying to keep track of hundreds or thousands of samples at one time, the PCD2EXCEL function/wizard is there, but I don't know how well it works as I've never used it.
Of course, as you can tell, this thread died after I 'suggested' that Hex fix their fix and I've not heard that it has been 'fixed' so that the simple old STATS/ON command works like it used to work. If it now requires some external command to get it to update correctly, then they need to CODE THAT into Pcdmis so that the STATS/ON does it without you having to put in more code or frog around some other way. I mean, that USED TO BE their "sweet selling point" for Datapage, "It works hand-in-hand with Pcdmis with the insertion of this single command in the program, no other operator input required, and it can be turned off with a single keystroke." But, I guess that isn't important anymore, eh?
