Blast Editor Simplified

Laura here with the mXrap team. This video covers the Blast Editor. Today we're going to be looking at the Blast Editor in the General Analysis app, but you do have access to it through the General Setup windows of a variety of different apps. When you come into these windows, you find the Blast Editor and you'll see on the right hand side you have a 3D View with the last blast highlighted in green and the second last blast highlighted in pink. And on the left hand side, you have two tables. So 1 is your unfiltered Blast editor, and the other is filtered. So if I come here and I enable my tons filter, for example, you'll see that I'm filtering here, but I don't see any impacts of that filter on the unfiltered Blast Editor. So I'll just turn that off. Let's say we want to add a new Blast here. We're going to come to the top right, tick this on to enable editing and insert a new row here. We can type in the date XY and Z. That's all that's required. Any of these other columns is used for your own information, for filtering and things like that, but at a minimum, you need a date XY and Z. So if I just copy this in and I say let's make this 2014, you'll see that now this is my last blast, shown here in green. Right here again, we've moved it up by just changing this location. It was previously covering the second last blast. You can also see on the left hand side here, it will give you warnings. So in this case, it's telling us that we have a duplicated blast in space and time. So if I just sort by my date time and go down to see which of these is highlighted in orange, here I have my duplicates. Obviously I only need one of those in my data set. So I'm going to go ahead and highlight this, come up to edit and delete my Yellow selected row. Now I don't have any duplicates. I do have one blast that a time or location has not been entered for, so I could go in and clean that up as well. Your other option for editing blasts is to do it in the back end in the CSV. So if you go to your apps window, you browse your root, you find where your blasts are stored. So that's typically Standard Data, Blasts. You can see that you have your blast CSV here. I go ahead and open that up. Whenever it's opened up in Excel, the date column is going to be reformatted. This is a problem because if you add a bunch of new blast now and you save this, it is going to be blocked and not read back into mXrap properly. So anytime you open up this file, you have to reformat this column so you can highlight that column. Come here. More Number Formats and you need to do a custom format. So that's going to be yyyy-MM-dd space. hh:mm:ss.0 OK, so unless you have a very specific custom format for your mine, this is going to be the one that you need to use. So I hit OK, I hit save, then when I go back to mXrap, if I had made changes, I would reload the data and I would see those new blasts come in. If you have any other questions or require further guidance with respect to your BLAST database and using the BLAST Editor, as always, please feel free to reach out to us at support.