I have tried to set up a daily schedule to save newly acquired data to a USB memory stick.

I set this up in dEX configuration builder by adding a new schedule to run every day at midnight, then added a manual channel with the command

COPYD dest=A: format=csv archive=N src=BD start=new;

If I issue this command in the command window, it successfully saved data to the USB device.

When inserted in the schedule it seems to stop the job running at all. Subsequently on trying to send a configuration to the logger I get a "no current job" error.

Is this simply because I need to enclose the command in a DO{} command so it runs on the schedule and not immediately?

Sorry, I am away from the site and am trying to debug some problems before revisiting.

Andrew Mitchell MIOA MInstSCE
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University of Exeter
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Good evening tamitche

There are two different types of commands immediate commands and coding commands
The CopyD command is an immediate command that is it will be executed when entered. If you wish to add an immediate command to your code you need to put it inside a DO statement.

E.g Do {copyd}

Cheers
Roger

Thanks Roger.

Hi Andrew,

When you declare a COPYD syntax without any DO to enclose it, it will run instantaneous even when DT program has not been sent completely.
As a result it will give you an error, because that syntax tries to unload the data from a job that has not exist yet.

With this error, dataTaker will not be able to successfully compile the program.
No program means "No current job" message.

Best regards,
Rudy Gunawan