The next step is to create the channel that routes messages to a file. To create this channel:

• Click the Dashboard tab.
• In the Dashboard Control Panel, click Add Channel. The Add Channel screen appears.
• From the Source list box, select From Channel.
• From the Destination list box, select To File. The Add Channel screen now looks like this:

• Click Configure Channel. The Configure New Channel screen appears:

• In the Channel name field, type tutorial3.

• Click the Source tab. The Source: From Channel panel appears:

• From the Add a Source Channel list box, select tutorial. This indicates that messages will be routed from the tutorial channel to this channel.

• Click the Filter tab. The Filter panel appears.

• Select the Use filter check box to display the filtering options:

• In the Full filter VMD path field, type the path and filename of the VMD file that you created in Step 2.

• In the Ignored messages field, type PatientMessages. This is the name of the patient message definition that you added to the VMD file. This indicates that this channel will ignore the patient messages that are sent to the LLP Client by Channel 2.

• Click Add Ignored Message. The PatientMessages message definition is now added to the ignored message definition list:

• Click the Destination tab. The Destination: To File panel appears:

• In the Destination directory field, type the complete directory path of the directory into which you want to write the file (such as D:\sample).

• From the Write each message to list box, select A single file.

• In the File field, type message.txt. (You can use any name you like, as long as you remember this name when you are testing the connection.)

• Click Add Channel to create the channel.

Now that you have created all your channels, you are ready to test your configuration.