VehicleScape DAQ makes creating a standalone logging device simple. The example used in this tutorial was a very simplified one. Standalone logging setups can get very complicated. For features that are not available, custom function block scripts can be used add to the logging setup.
To see what VehicleScape DAQ is doing behind the scenes, open up function blocks view after clicking generate in VehicleScape DAQ. Here you can see the scripts that Vehicle Spy 3 generated.