Using the ExtData/History tool

This page describes how to use the ExtData/History tool. This application allows the user to run either or both ExtData and History at predefined times, with multiple configurations in one execution. The application has a simple gridded component to make a grid and create either imports or exports for ExtData and History respectively and perform some functions that will be detailed below. The main application for this will be to test ExtData as we refactor it.

The application has the following modes that affect what the application gridded component does:

Generate Exports - Fill the export state with a predefined function

Fill Imports - Create some imports, up to ExtData to put something in them

Fill Exports from Imports - Create some exports and imports and fill the exports with the values of the imports. Obviously the names must match

Compare Imports - Create some imports, ExtData will of course try to fill. Compare the values in the import with a predefined function.

The application has a main CAP.rc file. This is a list of the CAP.rc for each case that will be run and looks like this:

1. CASES::
2. CAP1.rc
3. CAP2.rc