resscan 3.10 Nap Bug
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:54 am
I found a bug, and a workaround. Someone may already have posted about this, but I didn't see it specifically in previous threads, so I thought I'd post about it here.
Several of us discovered in a previous thread together that in order not to lose flow data in ResScan 3.10 when downloading data that you need to discard duplicate data when the quick start patient selector pops up for data download.
That's great if you only check your data once a day, but what if you checked your nap data yesterday afternoon, and now you want to show last nights data this morning? At first, you might think you've either lost data, you're about to lose data if you overwrite all, or you'll just have to wait until tomorrow to view the data.
When you stick your sd card reader in the usb slot, this 'quick start' screen pops up. Actually it takes a minute. It's pretty slow for a quick start, but it's somewhat automated.
When you select 'View Data', this dialog box pops up on top of the previous dialog box. Wait a few seconds...
Then another dialog box pops up on top of the second dialog box asking if you want to discard or overwrite. In order not to lose data, you choose 'discard duplicate data'.
If you had a nap yesterday afternoon and you looked at your data after the nap, this is what you get -- only the nap data -- not a hint of last night's mask sessions:
Again, repeating, you can't just overwrite because all flow data for this patient except for the last 8 days on your ResScan database will be destroyed. That would suck. What's the workaround?
Unplug the SD card, wait a few seconds and then plug it back in. This screen appears after the 'quick start' system recognizes the sd card again:
I usually click 'No', but it probably doesn't matter since new data has not been added.
The next screen comes up. Be sure to select your patient, leave all settings the same, except check 'Select Data Type to Download' and click 'View Data'.
Of course do nothing when this screen pops up:
Check all settings as shown. All summary data. Pull down to 'first' most recent detailed data sessions(s). Check 'include equivalent number of high rate data sessions (if available)'. I leave 'make these my default settings' unchecked just in case I skip a couple days so I can come back and automatically download all available high-resolution data on the card. Click 'Ok'.
Next you'll get the typical 'Overwrite-or-Discard' screen. You can now safely click 'overwrite' because you're downloading specifically last night's data and will not delete or discard any previous night's high-resolution data. You will only overwrite 'last night's' data - meaning from 12noon yesterday to 12noon today.
Now you will see all of last night's data available along with your nap. Detailed data for flow and all other data are still avialable for all nights on your computer. I'm unsure as to whether data is struck from the card when using this method, but I tend to think not. If anyone has better knowledge or a better 'best practices' methodology, it would be great to share it here.
This particular bug makes me think about ResScan 3.10's data management granularity, or lack thereof. Under the pulldown for 'Tools' --> 'Options' --> there needs to be a tab for data archive preferences - perhaps 'Data'. Under the 'Data' tab, there should be options for how you want various media types to store/archive data. Resultant pull-downs should be appropriate to the Media Type selected.
I hope this helps someone.
Several of us discovered in a previous thread together that in order not to lose flow data in ResScan 3.10 when downloading data that you need to discard duplicate data when the quick start patient selector pops up for data download.
That's great if you only check your data once a day, but what if you checked your nap data yesterday afternoon, and now you want to show last nights data this morning? At first, you might think you've either lost data, you're about to lose data if you overwrite all, or you'll just have to wait until tomorrow to view the data.
When you stick your sd card reader in the usb slot, this 'quick start' screen pops up. Actually it takes a minute. It's pretty slow for a quick start, but it's somewhat automated.
When you select 'View Data', this dialog box pops up on top of the previous dialog box. Wait a few seconds...
Then another dialog box pops up on top of the second dialog box asking if you want to discard or overwrite. In order not to lose data, you choose 'discard duplicate data'.
If you had a nap yesterday afternoon and you looked at your data after the nap, this is what you get -- only the nap data -- not a hint of last night's mask sessions:
Again, repeating, you can't just overwrite because all flow data for this patient except for the last 8 days on your ResScan database will be destroyed. That would suck. What's the workaround?
Unplug the SD card, wait a few seconds and then plug it back in. This screen appears after the 'quick start' system recognizes the sd card again:
I usually click 'No', but it probably doesn't matter since new data has not been added.
The next screen comes up. Be sure to select your patient, leave all settings the same, except check 'Select Data Type to Download' and click 'View Data'.
Of course do nothing when this screen pops up:
Check all settings as shown. All summary data. Pull down to 'first' most recent detailed data sessions(s). Check 'include equivalent number of high rate data sessions (if available)'. I leave 'make these my default settings' unchecked just in case I skip a couple days so I can come back and automatically download all available high-resolution data on the card. Click 'Ok'.
Next you'll get the typical 'Overwrite-or-Discard' screen. You can now safely click 'overwrite' because you're downloading specifically last night's data and will not delete or discard any previous night's high-resolution data. You will only overwrite 'last night's' data - meaning from 12noon yesterday to 12noon today.
Now you will see all of last night's data available along with your nap. Detailed data for flow and all other data are still avialable for all nights on your computer. I'm unsure as to whether data is struck from the card when using this method, but I tend to think not. If anyone has better knowledge or a better 'best practices' methodology, it would be great to share it here.
This particular bug makes me think about ResScan 3.10's data management granularity, or lack thereof. Under the pulldown for 'Tools' --> 'Options' --> there needs to be a tab for data archive preferences - perhaps 'Data'. Under the 'Data' tab, there should be options for how you want various media types to store/archive data. Resultant pull-downs should be appropriate to the Media Type selected.
I hope this helps someone.