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Section 2: Using the Front Panel
Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter User's Manual
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3700S-900-01 Rev. C / July 2008
PATT key
Press the
PATT
key to open the PATTERN ACTION menu.
If you press the
PATT
key, but no patterns have been created or if the unit is
powered up with the factory default settings, the only option that is displayed
is CREATE.
If you press the
PATT
key after creating channel patterns, the name of an
existing pattern blinks, and you are in pattern selection mode. Use the
CURSOR
keys or navigation wheel to scroll through the available patterns,
and press
ENTER
to select the one you want to use. The selected pattern is
used with the
OPEN
and
CLOSE
action keys, among others.
The PATTERN ACTION menu contains the following items:
OPEN:
Opens the specified channel pattern for switching aspects. Related
ICL command: channel.open().
CLOSE:
Closes the specified channel pattern. These closures are
appended to the already closed channels. Related ICL command:
channel.close().
EXCLOSE:
Closes the specified channel pattern so that the channels
associated with the pattern are exclusively closed. Related ICL command:
channel.exclusiveclose().
EXSLOTCLOSE:
Exclusively closes specified channels in the channel
pattern image for the specified slots. Related ICL command:
channel.exclusiveslotclose().
CREATE:
Creates a channel pattern from a snapshot and associates it with
the specified name. From the front panel, only the first 12 characters of the
name are visible. If no patterns exist in the system when the
PATT
key is
pressed, CREATE is the only menu item that is displayed. Related ICL
command: channel.pattern.snapshot().
VIEW:
Shows the channels associated with the pattern. Related ICL
command: channel.pattern.getimage().
DELETE:
Deletes a channel pattern. Related ICL command:
channel.pattern.delete().
RESET:
Resets the channels representing the image of the selected
channel pattern to the factory default settings. Also, the pattern is deleted
because resetting a channel causes any patterns that contain a channel
being reset to be deleted. Related ICL command: channel.reset().
NOTE
CREATE is the only item that is displayed unless a pattern has been
selected.