Introduction
Welcome to QuestSuite Professional
Welcome to the Help system for QuestSuite Professional. QuestSuite Professional is a suite of
integrated applets (small applications) that together provide one place where you can organize,
manage, analyze, and mine data from all types of Quest Technologies instruments. QuestSuite
Professional contains five applets, one for each kind of instrument: noise dosimeters, sound level
meters, heat stress monitors, gas monitors, and indoor air quality monitors.
With QuestSuite Professional, you can:
• Program most instruments for different test conditions—For example, to program an
indoor air quality monitor, you can choose the channels to be recorded, the logging mode
(such as survey or continuous), and the data storage period. In all applets, you can save
your configurations in setup files for easy retrieval and reuse.
• Easily retrieve and store test data—QuestSuite Professional retrieves test data from
the instruments and stores the data on your computer. Within each data file, you can
view file summaries and the results of individual tests, and you can add comments.
QuestSuite’s searching feature makes it easy to find the files you want to evaluate.
• View full-color charts of your recorded data—QuestSuite Professional generates
charts automatically. You can select chart styles, choose the information you want to
display, annotate charts with free-form comments, and add comments to specific data
points. You can zoom in to see more detailed data, and use a scan line to view exact
numeric data values. You can print charts and save them as files.
• View detail, summary, statistics, and exceedance reports—View them on-screen,
print them, or save them in files. You can also export reports to other programs.
• Keep track of instrument certifications—Set re-certification alarms and maintain
certification histories for each instrument in the Instrument database.
• Mine data—Search the database for exposure records based on combinations of criteria,
such as test date, subject name, company name, work area, or exposure type (noise,
sound, heat stress, gas, or indoor air quality).
Note: Before you begin using QuestSuite to record and retrieve data, you need to set up the
system options, the User Profile database, the Instrument database, and the software license.
Related topics
About the applets
What's new in this release
The application window
Navigating in QuestSuite Professional
Setting up System Options
Setting up the User Profile database
Setting up the Instrument database
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