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RE: DataLinq Excel update: How to refresh the video output directly &,or without pressing Ctrl+S in Excel?

Posted By Jay Cofield 06-16-2026 09:18
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Excel is annoying for XPression because of the sharing settings. The old .xls would let it be open & accessed by multiple users, but the newest excel wants only one user accessing it at a time. One workaround I've found is to save the regular excel file using the Google Drive app, which fools the OS ...

RE: Datalinqing a excel sheet over the network

Posted By Jay Cofield 01-28-2026 08:41
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I've been able to get datalinq connected to an XLS or CSV spreadsheet on a network drive. XLS works best for sharing because XLSX is goofy and annoying (the technical term) about sharing. One trick we figured out a few years ago for XLSX was to install the google drive app on the computers in question, ...

RE: need help with the Dashboard MIDI controller

Posted By Jay Cofield 08-20-2025 15:08
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James, thanks so much for the guidance on this. I have it mostly working thanks to your code, but wanted to check on a couple things. I'm having to use a couple of free helper apps to get the MIDI notes from Dashboard to the mixer, and would like to avoid those. (for future readers, Dashboard buttons ...

RE: need help with the Dashboard MIDI controller

Posted By Jay Cofield 08-05-2025 10:07
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Thanks! I will try that out & let you know. ------------------------------ Jay Cofield University of Montevallo- Dept of Comm ------------------------------

RE: need help with the Dashboard MIDI controller

Posted By Jay Cofield 08-04-2025 13:55
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Thanks for the help on this, I have confirmed that my audio mixer is receiving the MIDI CC on channel 0, so my follow up question is how do I connect the changes in values I make to channel 0? It may be a pretty basic question, but I'm new to MIDI and all the MIDI guides on the Web aren't helping. ...

RE: need help with the Dashboard MIDI controller

Posted By Jay Cofield 07-29-2025 11:40
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Thanks- that helps, I'll check it out. Our Midas Pro-X is pretty basic on how it handles MIDI anyways. It will allow me to trigger a scene change if it receives MIDI, any MIDI, but not necessarily a smooth volume slider change. -Jay

need help with the Dashboard MIDI controller

Posted By Jay Cofield 07-28-2025 18:01
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I'm trying to get Dashboard to transmit a MIDI command through a PreSonus USB MIDI interface. I am stuck on actually getting Dashboard to transmit any MIDI code. Any advice on what I'm missing or need to look at? The PreSonus shows up as a MIDI controller in my Windows Device Manager, and Dashboard shows ...

RE: Map Soft Panel

Posted By Jay Cofield 05-01-2025 09:43
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quick follow up on the original question- is there a way to change the busmap in dashboard to show the panel? I tried your example, and it pulls up the softpanel like the image shows, but how can I get it to show the panel busmap instead? It's probably something simple I'm overlooking. Thanks! ...

NCAA DII Scorebug with Dashboard

Posted By Jay Cofield 03-01-2025 10:34
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Not sure if anyone else's wrestling conference makes us watch a TV monitor to update scores & timers like ours does (!) but here's a dashboard driven scorebug & wrestling package I made this year. Hope it helps someone. Dashboard: wrestlingcontrol.grid | Powered by Box Box remove prev ...

Dashboard visual logic question

Posted By Jay Cofield 12-21-2024 13:19
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I'm trying to learn & use dashboard 9.12's visual logic and have hit a roadblock. I've looked at dashboard u, read through a bunch of forum messages but can't figure out what I'm missing. Full disclosure, coding isn't a strength of mine, but I'm pretty familiar with XPression visual logic so was hoping ...

RE: Stats Workflow

Posted By Jay Cofield 12-10-2024 15:09
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We have the google drive app loaded on our Xpression Studio PC, and put our excel file in there. The Drive app lets google drive show up as a mounted drive, in our case G:\ Then we were able to share that excel .xlsx file with others to populate like a normal excel shared file Our ...

RE: Stats Workflow

Posted By Jay Cofield 12-04-2024 11:12
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Hopefully this will help, one of our IT guys figured out that we could install the google drive app on the Xpression machine, and use a real Excel sheet with datalinq. Google drive apparently tricks excel into sharing with datalinq better than Microsoft intends :-) -Jay Cofield, ...

RE: Xpression and SQL queries in datalinqs

Posted By Jay Cofield 11-22-2024 12:31
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Thanks! I'll take a look at that & make sure the columns are formatted the same. My plan is to create an excel with our conference's team rosters, and let my student operator click a button in dashboard based on who we're playing. -Jay Cofield, Ph.D. Professor of Mass Communication ...

RE: Xpression and SQL queries in datalinqs

Posted By Jay Cofield 11-20-2024 16:00
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Is it possible to use Macros in the query example above? I'd like to use Dashboard to feed the table name to the team text object & also the Jersey text object. I think I'm missing something simple. Using @team@ by itself in the table works ok, but I'm trying to figure out how to get datalinq to pull ...

RE: drag and drop from donor panel

Posted By Jay Cofield 10-10-2024 09:47
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Richard, thanks for your advice- that worked out. I created a small canvas with the jersey choice embedded. I can share this with my students now. Always trying to stay one step ahead of them! Here's the page, probably one too many canvases but I shrunk the canvas with the actual keypad down ...

RE: drag and drop from donor panel

Posted By Jay Cofield 10-09-2024 21:32
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RE: drag and drop from donor panel

Posted By Jay Cofield 10-09-2024 17:23
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Thanks so much- I have dragged & dropped most a page before, I was hoping to avoid having to delete a number of items, but your video helps. Thanks much! -Jay ------------------------------ Jay Cofield University of Montevallo- Dept of Comm ------------------------------

drag and drop from donor panel

Posted By Jay Cofield 10-08-2024 19:56
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I'm running dashboard 9.10, and have run into an issue dragging and dropping from donor panels. It's probably user error or something simple, but when I try to drag and drop from a working donor panel, the blank panel doesn't get the parameters or styles of certain buttons. For example, I can successfully ...

RE: sharing excel sheets for stats

Posted By Jay Cofield 05-10-2024 09:47
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One thing our IT folks helped me figure out for excel sheets is to install the Google Drive app. It makes Drive appear as a mounted volume on the PC's, and helps get around some of the weirdness of trying to figure out what Excel setting we have to set for sharing, since Microsoft seems to change it ...

RE: FinishLynx and Xpression

Posted By Jay Cofield 04-30-2024 15:19
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