Robbie, See the attached figure. Pay special attention to the formatting of the time field. Best, Unidata IDV Support > Hey thanks for the help. I have tried entering it any every which way > possible but it just keeps giving me error messages when I attempt to enter > " scale=-1" > > Please let me know what I am doing wrong > > Robbie > > address@hidden> wrote: > > > Robbie, > > > > This post may help you: > > > > http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/idv/msg06204.html > > > > Pay special attention to the 'scale=-1 in the "Extra" field' comment. > > > > If that does not work, please upload your data here: > > > > http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload > > > > Let us know when it is there. > > > > Best, > > > > Unidata IDV Support > > > > > Full Name: Robbie Eisenrich > > > Email Address: address@hidden > > > Organization: UMD > > > Package Version: 5.0u2 build date:2014-11-12 20:09 UTC > > > Operating System: Windows 8 > > > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files (x86)\IDV_5.0u2\jre version: > > 1.7.0_51 j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily > > > Description of problem: > > > > > > Hello- > > > > > > I am trying to get my depths to come up as negative so that they show > > > up in IDV as an depth rather then an altitude above zero. To do thisI > > > opened the CSV file in excel and changed the depth column which was > > > positive to negative. I than saved it and attempted to upload it as a > > > text point data file to CDV. However it did not work. How should i go > > > about making my depths show up as a negative altitude? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Robbie > > > > > > ****************** > > > Stack trace: > > > java.io.IOException: Could not load resource:%idv.bundlepath%/CSV point > > data error:java.io.FileNotFoundException: Unable to > > open:%idv.bundlepath%/CSV point data > > > at ucar.unidata.util.IOUtil.getInputStream(IOUtil.java:1301) > > > at ucar.unidata.util.IOUtil.readContents(IOUtil.java:1609) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getContents(TextPointDataSource.java:543) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:483) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2575) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.getFullDescription(PointDataSource.java:1338) > > > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.getDataSourceHtml(DataManager.java:664) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.showSupportFormInThread(IdvUIManager.java:6131) > > > at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.access$800(IdvUIManager.java:166) > > > at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager$33.run(IdvUIManager.java:6063) > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: RTV-146864 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RTV-146864 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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