MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 7.0
System Programming
555-670-111
Issue 1
April 1999
Programming Basics
1-16
Programming Procedures
1
corresponds to the highlighted console option is shown in the right column under
the PC header.
When more than one but fewer than six options can be selected from the screen,
each console key for each option is highlighted in gray, as shown in sample
Step 3 below. To prevent clutter, when six or more options may be selected, no
highlighting is shown. See
‘‘Additional Information and PC Headers’’
which follows
for more details about how more than five options are presented.
Additional Information and PC Headers
1
The information displayed under the Additional Information header may contain
notes, values entered in a previous step, branching instructions, general
information, or specific instructions.
Sample Step 2 shows a typical display of a value entered in a previous step. The
x
corresponds to the
x
shown on the console screen. Variable screen information
is always shown as
x
’s or
n
’s.
Variable input information is always shown in brackets ([ ]), as
x
’s or
n
’s.
In data entry steps, the area under the Additional Information header contains
instructions that apply to both the console and the PC. In such cases, the PC
column contains the symbol
Ã
. When you see this symbol, follow the instructions
under the Additional Information header, for example:
Dial or type
[nn].
On the console, dial the entry; on the PC, type the entry.
You also see the
Ã
symbol when six or more options can be selected from a
screen. Rather than highlighting all of the options and showing all of the PC keys,
the Additional Information header contains instructions for both, for example:
Press the button or function key next to your selection.
On the console, press the key next to your selection; on the PC press the function
key for your selection.
Branching
1
Many of the procedures contain features that have multiple programming options,
while other procedures show more than one way to program a particular feature.
To accommodate both of these programming methods, the procedures use
branching. Branching separates the options from the main procedure and places
them in subprocedures (branch procedures).
