DAQFactory normally starts with a blank document, at which point you can go to File-Open or use the most recent document list to open your document.
To have DAQFactory automatically load your document you need to create a shortcut to DAQFactory and provide the name of your document as the command line parameter:
1. Create a shortcut to DAQFactory. The easiest way is to right click on DAQFactory.exe in Explorer and select Create Shortcut. Name it something more useful than Shortcut to DAQFactory if you'd like.
2. Now, open the properties for the shortcut by right clicking on the shortcut and select Properties.
3. The target box will have the path to DAQFactory, more than likely it will be c:\DAQFactory\DAQFactory.exe. Add a space and then the name of your document, for example:
c:\DAQFactory\DAQFactory.exe MyDocument.ctl
If the document is not in your DAQFactory directory, you'll need to specify the full path to the document, usually in quotes.
4. Make sure the "Start in" specifies the path in which DAQFactory is installed, for example: c:\DAQFactory
Now starting the shortcut will start DAQFactory and load the document.
Note: if you are using Express, you will need to include -runAsExpress in the command line between DAQFactory.exe and your .ctl file path. We recommend copying the Express shortcut and adding your file path to it.
Although we don't typically recommend this, as an alternative, and assuming you haven't done a weird or double installation you can simply double click on the document and both DAQFactory and the document will load, but this does not work for Express and can throw your scripts off if they make start up folder assumptions. You can also make a shortcut to the document if you'd like to put it in your start menu.
