Start the job

When you are satisfied with all the settings made in the Operations steps, you can start the job.

  1. In the Destination step, select a Format family from the drop-down list.

  2. Select a Format the corresponding drop-down list.

    The available formats depend on the format family.

  3. To select the destination folder, click .

  4. In the folder selection dialog, select the destination folder.

  5. Click Select Folder.

  6. Select an option to handle naming conflicts in the destination folder:

    1. Keep both/Resolve conflicts: Keeps all files by appending a numeric suffix (e.g., _1, _2, etc.) to the new file name. The number increases automatically to avoid overwriting existing files.

    2. Overwrite existing: Overwrites existing files with the same name.

  7. (Optional) In the Output file prefix and/or suffix input fields, enter custom text to add to the output file names.

  8. (Optional) Activate any of the following checkboxes:

    1. Copy MDF4 events: Only relevant if both the source and destination file formats are MDF4. Copies the events from the source to the target MDF4 file.

    2. Detect duplicates: Detects duplicate signals in measurement files. The results of this operation can be found in the job log.

    3. Export configuration: Saves the configuration with all settings as JSON file to the destination folder. It can be used with the Data Operator CLI or imported back into Data Operator, see Import a configuration.

  9. Click .

  10. The job starts. You can track its progress in the Jobs progress tab.