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Welcome to the Commodore-Repair-Toolbox (CRT henceforward) documentation.

The documentation covered here, will be for the Excel data files and how to label components for highlighting.

Introduction to data files

CRT has several data files, where it will read its various information from, like hardware, board, components, highlights and images etc. The data files are all Excel, which is used as the data format, as this is straightforward for the most to work with. Though there can be many Excel files, it has only two levels:

• Main Excel data file with references for specific hardware/board data files
• Hardware/board specific Excel data file having all detailed information about the hardware/board

The main data file is located in the same directory as the executable file and is named Commodore-Repair-Toolbox.xlsx.

Main Excel data file format

The main Excel data file has only one worksheet, so it is pretty simple.

Worksheet: Hardware & Board

These are the columns and how to understand them.

Active

Defines if the hardware/board should be shown in CRT. 0 equals it will not be shown. 1 equals it will be shown.

Hardware name in drop-down

Exact same name as shown in the Hardware drop-down in CRT. The same hardware name can be represented on multiple rows, if it has different boards. Keep the name short, so it can fit in the drop-down.

Board name in drop-down

Exact same name as shown in the Board drop-down in CRT. The same board name should not be represented more than once. Keep the name short, so it can fit in the drop-down.

Excel data file

Path and filename to the specific hardware/board Excel data file. Use relative path from the executable file.