Settings

To configure the general properties of a controller, select it from the list of controllers and click on the Settings tab in the bottom-left corner of the screen, as shown below:

A new window will open, allowing you to edit the properties of the controller, as shown below:

Each field in this section is described in the table below:

Field	Description
Name	The name of the controller
Dequeue time	The frequency (in milliseconds) that the controller's dequeue timer checks the data buffer
Dequeue linger	Determines whether the dequeue timer is reset whenever any input receives data
Timestamp format	Defines a string to place before every line of data when it is dequeued. The string can contain any or all of the following variables: {year} - The current year, formatted as "yyyy" {month} - The current month, formatted as "mm" {day} - The current day, formatted as "dd" {hour} - The current hour, formatted as "hh" {minute} - The current minute, formatted as "mm" {second} - The current second, formatted as "ss" \r - Carriage return \n - Line feed
Timestamp in UTC	Indicates that the UTC time should be used as the time stamp, rather than the local time (default)
Timestamp encoding	Selects the type of encoding to use during conversion of byte array data to strings (and vice versa) when timestamping. The following values are accepted: default - Use the operating system's default ascii - Use plain (7-bit) ASCII unicode - Use Unicode double-byte encoding utf8 - Use UTF8 versatile encoding