Chromatography Forum

From one of my IT guys - any help is appreciated. We've already found and shot down the Agilent document contained in the following link:

http://www.chem.agilent.com/Library/Sup ... a05049.pdf

Hello,

Using the Agilent MSD Chemstation G1701EA Version E.02.00.493 (SP2) in EnviroQuant mode --- when Editing Compounds (Initial Calibration -> Edit Compounds aka "editcpnds" command) in the "Reporting" tab, all of the values (Water spike amount, Soil spike amount, etc.) are being dropped on the fly to 2 decimal places. I.e. 0.062 instantly changes to 0.06 even before clicking 'OK'. Ditto under 'Identification' tab when changing say the "Extract signals from" field. Is there a place that we can define this area to hold more decimal places? I'm used to seeing in macros things like:

#.##

And what we are seeking is more like:

#.#####

Just not sure where it is held being that this is the editcpnds command and not calling a macro.

*Edited to correct a program name inconsistency in the original message, hopefully to elicit a response.

Finally got an answer from Agilent on this one. The issue is hard-coded into the Visual Basic environment of the MSD Chemstation, and as such isn't fixable witha macro or a quick hack. However, customization of the interface can be done, if you have the know-how (or the money to hire a consultant!).

2 decimals sounds absurd for quantitative analysis. A straightforward work-around would be to change all your units from say g to mg, or mg to ug. Irritating though.

Peter

Peter:

That was precisely the solution I got from Agilent - change from mg to ug, problem solved. And yes, mildly irritating, more so in the fact that the option is not configurable by the user, but instead hard-coded into the interface.

bringing an old thread back from the dead, but I was able to change the number of decimal places in Enviroquant...it involved a bit of trial and error, poking around in EPA.MAC in the msmacros directory...make sure you make a backup copy of the original!

if anybody is interested in doing this, I can maybe help out....