3. Button function and navigation
BACK
navigation
button
FORWARD
navigation
button
OK
confirmation
button
Scroll backwards
in the menu
Scroll forward in
the menu
Read messages
– Change
settings
– Change
settings
– Confirm and
acknowledge
alert
– Display the
start screen or
start text
– Display the
secondary
menu by
holding button
– Display user
Menu
– Confirm menu
selection
ESC button
- Leave the current
menu level
- Go to the home
screen by holding
the button
Open Main Menu
Pressing the OK
confirmation button allows you to switch from the home
screen to the Main menu. You use the BACK and
FORWARD navigation buttons to navigate through the
menu. To confirm a selection you have made, or a
changed value, press the OK button. Each press of a
button activates the backlight.
Back to home screen
Press the ESC button to go to the next higher menu
level. If you hold down the ESC button for two seconds,
you return from any submenu to the home screen. If
you do not press any of the buttons for c.30seconds,
the SwiftAlert automatically returns to the home screen.
Release key lock (if activated)
To release the key lock press the two navigation
buttons BACK and FORWARD simultaneously.
Start-up image / Start-up text
If you hold down the BACK navigation button in the
home screen, the start-up image and start-up text
appears.
4. Secondary menu
For “RBA core menus”
All the most frequently used menu items are available
in one place on the “secondary menu screen”
To reach it, hold down the FORWARD navigation
button in the home screen for two seconds. When you
leave the secondary menu, the pager automatically
returns to the home screen.
5. Display
The home screen is divided into five sections:
1st line: Status line
2nd line: RBA subscription level
3rd line: Date/Time, alarm clock
4th line: RBA line
5th line: Notification line (unread message count)
Status line
These symbols may be displayed in the status line:
RBA subscription level
Displays your current RBA subscription level, which
determines how many and which Folders you can
access. You can upgrade by contacting RBA admin.
Date/Time/alarm clock
This section shows the date/time and you can also see
whether the alarm clock is on, activated, or snoozed.
Notification line
If there are unread messages in the pager, the total
number is displayed here.
6. Processing alerts/messages
Receive and read new messages
When the SwiftAlert receives a message, it alerts for all
respective folder(s) with sound, vibration (if switched on)
and illumination of the OK button. Press the OK button
to acknowledge the alert, in each folder.
After acknowledging an inbound alert, continue to use
the OK button. It will take you to any other
unacknowledged messages, or, if none, it will scroll
through the new message and mark it as read when you
reach the ‘end of message symbol’
<.
Marking any individual message as “read” affects all
copies of that message, in all folders, simultaneously.
NOTE: Press and hold the ESC button at any time to
exit the messages, or any other menu, and return to the
main menu and the home screen.
From the main menu press OK to go into messages,
and use BACK / FORWARD buttons to navigate to the
folder of your choice, then use OK to go through the
messages in the folder.
Scroll through messages
You can use the OK, BACK or FORWARD navigation
buttons to scroll through the messages. At the end of
the message, you should press the OK confirmation
button or the FORWARD navigation button to “mark the
message as read”.
Message storage
Messages are stored in the appropriate folder(s),
chronologically, most recent first. Just use the OK
button repeatedly to scroll all the way through the list,
and when you reach the end, you can continue past the
last message to go round to the first. You can also use
the BACK and FORWARD buttons.
Unread or protected messages are marked in the list.
A total “unread message count” is on the home screen,
and is shown individually at end of each folder name.
Protect/delete messages
Protect message allows you to protect a read message.
There is no need to delete messages as once the pager
has reached its storage limit of 400 messages, the
oldest non-protected message is automatically deleted
on receipt of a new message.
The ‘Empty folder’ function lets you delete all non-
protected messages in the folder.
Beware
: ‘Delete all
messages’ in the main menu really does delete ALL
messages, including any “protected” messages !!!
Alert reminder
You will be reminded of any unread messages every
three minutes by the OK button “flashing” and/or a
noise (“periodical alert”). The noise used is 2s of the
folder alert for the most recent unread message, (+thus
could be silent). NB if you have any unread MEGAs the
“periodical” reminder will always be 2s of your chosen
MEGA alert.
Based on the pager alert mode, the Alert
Reminder is
Loud
folder alert played for 2s, loudly
Quiet
folder alert played for 2s, quietly
Ascending folder alert played for 2s, quietly
Discreet
folder alert played for 2s, quietly
Silent
folder alert pattern is played once - silently,
that means just LED and/or (vibration)
MEGA ALERT reminders are always “noisy” unless you
set your ‘NewMegas’ ‘Folder Alert’ to have a silent alert
7. Main menu
From the “Home Screen”, when you press the OK
button for the first time, the pager switches from the
home screen to the main menu. You can use the
FORWARD and BACK navigation buttons to navigate
to the individual menu items. To open a selected menu
item, press the OK button.
• Messages
Read all your received news here
• Last/unread messages
View the latest message,
followed by all unread messages,
using just the OK button
• Subscriptions
Select/unselect the news folders
you want to receive news for
• Alert
Sets the pagerwide alert mode: see
chapter 8: ‘Alert’
• Settings
C
ontains various settings for the pager
- see chapter 9: ‘
Settings’
• Mark all messages read
Marks all messages, in all
folders, as ‘read’
• Delete all messages
Every message in SwiftAlert,
even protected ones, will be deleted!!
• Switch Off
Switches SwiftAlert off – any
messages sent whilst the SwiftAlert is off, will never be
received. When the SwiftAlert is switched back on –
only new messages, sent after switching on, will be
received. Use the RBA app or website to check for
messages if your SwiftAlert was switched off.
8. Alert
This tells the SwiftAlert how loudly to play the alerts that
you have set for each folder. Note that you choose
each folder’s alerts in the “Folder Alerts” menu. You can
select the following types of alert in the ‘Alert’ menu:
• Loud
Alerts are played at maximum volume.
• Quiet
Alerts are played quietly.
• Ascending
Alerts start quietly & gradually get louder.
• Discrete
Alert is preceded by activation of the
display backlight and, if vibration is
turned on, vibration for ten seconds;
followed by the alert, played quietly.
• Silent
The only indication of a new message is
the display backlight comes on, and, if
you have turned on vibration, the
SwiftAlert will vibrate. The SwiftAlert is
totally mute; furthermore, no key clicks
are audible. However, see the following
note about “MEGA ALERTS” (which are
pre-set as PRIORITY)
NB MEGAS
: The ‘NewMegas’ folder is factory preset
to “
Priority
”. The alert you choose for this folder is
always played, whatever general Alert mode you set
the SwiftAlert to. So, if you don’t want a MEGA to alert
you when the SwiftAlert is set to silent, then you must
also set the Mega folder to one of the ‘silent alerts’ in
the “FOLDER ALERTS” menu and it will never alert you
noisily again, until you change the “Folder Alert” for it.
