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Choose the Program ICS options that suit the way you want to program the system.
Refer to the table below for detailed descriptions.
Table 5 Program ICS dialog box options
Option Description
Partial Programming Choose this option if you only want to program only parts of the new
system. For instance, the installer may have configured the module
settings when the system was installed, and therefore you do not
want to overwrite these settings.
Then choose the Workbook Regions and other settings that you want
to affect.
Full Programming Choose this option if the new system has no current programming,
other than the default programming, and you want to change all the
settings. All the regions and options become selected.
WARNING : This is not a recommended option.
Pre-Validate In conjunction with the Partial or Full Programming selection, use the
Pre-Validate option to verify the selected information in the
workbook before you use it to program the ICS. Pre-validation is
performed without an online connection.
Important Pre-validating the programming information in an ICS
workbook ensures that the information falls within the appropriate
parameters or ranges which are allowed by the type of ICS. Because
pre-validation does not check for accuracy of programming, you
should not rely on it catch all programming errors.
Add to ICS Program In conjunction with the Partial or Full Programming selection, use
Add to ICS Program to add programming to existing ICS
programming. This includes adding such things as line appearances,
line pools assignments, or other items which are found in lists of
identical items (Example 1). However, if a setting already exists in the
ICS programming, the workbook programming would overwrite the
ICS programming (Example 2).
Example 1: If DN 221 is programmed with the appearance of Line
001 and Line 002, and programming is added using a workbook
which gives DN 221 a line appearance of Line 003, DN 221 will have
the appearances of Lines 001, 002 and 003.
Example 2: If Line 001 is assigned to DN 221 as Appear only in ICS
programming and assigned in the workbook as Ring only, the
workbook programming would overwrite the existing programming.
Overwrite ICS Program In conjunction with the Partial or Full Programming selection, use the
Overwrite ICS Program option to program the ICS with specified
information from the workbook without keeping any existing ICS
programming.
For example, if DN 221 has lines 001 and 002 assigned to it and the
ICS workbook only has line 003 assigned, lines 001 and 002 are
replaced with line 003.
If the ICS workbook also has lines 001 and 002, but with different
programming, then the ICS programming would overwrite the
programming for lines 001 and 002, and they would remain set.