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Configuration
Button Types
active. (An exception to this is the LCD brightness submenu when the
panel is in menu mode.) Some button types are never high-tally.
Check box
“Place this button on all local pages.” When the operator presses a ‘Navi-
gate’ button, its target page appears on the buttons. Any page can have
multiple navigate buttons and therefore multiple target pages. If you
check this option, the button you are defining will occur,
in the same
position
, on all pages in the subtree under the navigation button.
A “back” button is a good candidate for such a button. The back button
returns the operator to the previous page. (Back buttons are automati-
cally placed on list pages and most navigation target pages.)
Check box
“Use custom button text.” This checkbox is present only for certain
button types.
The option allows you to define specific button text for certain buttons
such as the ‘Src/Dst’ button. By default, the button gets the source
name and destination name as text. The option, when checked, over-
rides the default.
Be careful: unchecking this box alters the text you entered.
When you choose a button type, additional drop-down menus can appear, depending on
the button type, allowing you to further specify the button’s behavior. Available options
and selections vary with the button type.
There are other button definition options that become available when you are defining a
category button or a global navigation button and you have defined one or more suffix
pages or global navigation pages. These options are described under
on
The Navigate button is a special case, invoking an “Edit Navigate Button” dialog. See
, following.
Button Types
The buttons available under the paging model are a subset of those available under the
XY/MD model. Following are all the button types. A “P” next to the button name indicates
that is available under paging mode:
Type
Paging Description
[Back]
The ‘Back’ function places the predecessor of the current button
page on the panel.
The panel software can introduce a “back” button if an automatically
generated list has more entries than can fit on a page.
Broadcast
P
On the data (control) level, the button enables a broadcast take to an
additional
controlled device, after a broadcast route has been
initiated with a “source is master” control-level take to the
first
controlled device.
The button is useful in dubbing applications or when a backup
(redundant) device is in use. See
.
See also the
button, following.
