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Making the most of your stick reader
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Entering extra information during scanning
During scanning, you can add extra information about the animal, such as the animal's breed or condition score. You can
also create your own additional animal data field for entering information.
To set up a field for entering information during scanning:
1. From the Home screen, select Settings, then Animal Data.
2. Select one of the fields (Breed, Date of birth, Sex, Condition score and Note are defaults).
3. Change the screen order to 1 (if using multiple fields for data entry, you may want to select a different number to have
the data field appear further down the screen).
4. Select edit to change the field name or the options.
Note:
You can create your own additional animal data field. At step 2 above, press and follow the prompts.
Example of entering data during scanning (Breed and Condition score fields):
Pre-loading animal lifetime information or alerts to the stick reader, prior to scanning
Animal lifetime information or alerts can be transferred from the PC to the stick reader prior to scanning, using the Data
Link software.
Animal lifetime information
If animal lifetime information is transferred, when an animal's EID tag is scanned, other information about the animal will
be displayed. For example, you can transfer a file containing EID and VID pairs. During scanning, when an EID tag is
scanned, the corresponding VID number will be displayed automatically.
Alerts
If alerts information is transferred, when an animal's EID tag is scanned, an alert will be issued. For example, you may want
to receive an alert to cull a particular animal from the herd.
To transfer animal lifetime information or alerts from the PC to the stick reader:
1. Connect the stick reader to a PC using the cable supplied.
2. Launch Data Link on your PC.
3. Click , select Animal Lifetime Information or Alerts file and follow the prompts.
Note:
The PC file containing animal lifetime information information can be in .csv, .xls, .xlsx or .txt format, but it must be
formatted in a certain way. For more information, see a Tru-Test representative.
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