125Sorting the SELThe SEL can be sorted by clicking on the column header you wish to sort by. An arrow to the rightof the column header indicates the sort-by column and whether the column is sorted in ascending ordescending order. An up arrow indicates ascending order, and a down arrow indicates descendingorder. Clicking on the currently sorted column reverses the sort order of the column.Whenever the SEL is sorted, the first segment is displayed (see Table 19).Table 19. SEL Sort Order DefinitionsSort Field Ascending Order Descending OrderSEL ID Numeric ascending Numeric descendingTime Stamp Pre-Init time stamps first, followed bythe most recent time stamp. Pre-inittime stamps are sorted by SEL ID.Most recent time stamp last, followed bythe pre-Init time stamps. Pre-init timestamps are sorted by SEL ID.Sensor Name Alphabetic ascending Alphabetic descendingEvent Description Alphabetic ascending Alphabetic descendingGenerator ID Alphabetic ascending Alphabetic descendingSave Log ButtonThis allows you to save the currently loaded SEL to a file. The user can choose to save the SEL asthe decoded event data or as hexadecimal format. A different file extension is used for each type.In each case, the SEL properties and the entire log are written to the file. The SEL properties aresaved at the top of the file and are saved as verbose text.If the save fails because the file cannot be created, this error message is displayed:Unable to create save fileIf an error occurs while writing information to the file, this message is displayed:Error saving SEL to the fileOpen Log ButtonThis allows you to load a currently saved log file. The loaded file can be in either decoded orhexadecimal format. Upon opening a log file, the SEL Viewer is loaded, showing the events fromthe file.If the file to open is not a valid SEL file, this message is displayed:Invalid SEL fileIf there is an error while reading the events from the file, this message is displayed:Error reading SEL from fileIf you load a hexadecimal log file, the viewer interprets data as if it was loaded from the system.You will have all of the functionality that is available when the data is loaded from the system, butthe Clear SEL button is disabled when the log is loaded from a file.
