To import or view an Atlas instrument method, the Atlas components need to know the type of Atlas instrument the method was created for. Instrument types are defined as part of the Atlas system configuration, and so that part of the Atlas system configuration needs to be available to the importer and the viewer.
The system configuration files needed are as follows:
- Atlas system configuration file: Atlas.cfg from the Atlas\sys folder of the Atlas system on which the methods were generated.
- Device types definition file: DeviceTypes.ini from the same Atlas\sys folder.
Copying these files from the Atlas system and installing them for the Chromeleon system is the responsibility of the Chromeleon system administrator. How they install the file depends on whether they want the Atlas system configuration to be available to just a single workstation, or whether they want the system configuration to be available to multiple workstations.
Atlas system configuration on a single workstation
To make the Atlas system configuration available to a single workstation, the system administrator must execute the following steps:
Procedure
- Install the Atlas Instrument Method Viewer feature on the workstation.
- Create a subfolder called sys below the Chromeleon Atlas program folder, for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\Thermo\Chromeleon\bin\Atlas\sys
- Copy the Atlas.cfg and DeviceTypes.ini files into this subfolder.
Atlas system configuration on multiple workstations
To make the Atlas system configuration available to multiple workstations, the system administrator must execute the following steps:
Procedure
- Identify a network location that is accessible to all the workstations that need to read the Atlas system configuration. For these instructions, that location will be referred to as <\\ServerName\AtlasRoot>.
- Create a subfolder called sys below the identified network location, for example <\\ServerName\AtlasRoot>\sys
- Copy the Atlas.cfg and DeviceTypes.ini files into this subfolder.
- Copy the def subfolder below the Chromeleon Atlas program folder to network location, for example copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Thermo\Chromeleon\bin\Atlas\def (and its contents) to <\\ServerName\AtlasRoot>\def
- On each workstation that needs to read the Atlas system configuration:
- Install the Atlas Instrument Method viewer feature.
- Edit the Atlas.ini file in the Chromeleon installation folder, for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\Thermo\Chromeleon\bin\Atlas.ini
- Change the atlas_root location to the network location, without a trailing ‘\’, for example, atlas_root=<\\ServerName\AtlasRoot>