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1) Click on an empty control event button to highlight it.
2) Double-click on the System Control selector button (shown
above).
3) Hold down
[Ctrl]
and left or right-click to select one of the
following types of system control settings:
System control
selector button
Run Default Action
This can be used to enable or disable the
Run Defaults
option that then runs or stops any action
buttons set to
Default
.
Example:
You are running 4 rooms / zones (in a museum for instance), have created background states for
each room and have a presentation designed for each room. You have used the exclusive letters
A
,
B
,
C
and
D
for rooms 1 to 4 respectively, and have set each of the action buttons for each room to
their respective letter.
The background states are run (set to
Default
) in each room until someone enters the room in which
case an action button containing a timed presentation for that room is run, turning the default state
off. When the presentation ends and its action button goes off, the default button for that room is
automatically run.
This is fine, but what if you want the default buttons to be active only between certain times? This
is where the
Run Default
system control event can be used. You simply create the event as
described above, drop it onto an action button and then schedule it to turn on at the appropriate
opening time and go off when the venue is closed. This, in effect, schedules when the defaults are
run without having to manually use the
RD
button on the action panel, or manually tick or un-tick
the
Run Defaults
menu item.
Reset Desk
This can be used to reset the whole desk to ensure that only the events that should be running at that
time are run and any other events that may have been run manually etc. are turned off. When this
event is run either directly from the action button or automatically by the scheduler etc. all events
are turned off and then the scheduler and any action buttons set to
Default
etc. are run, as
appropriate.
Dummy / String
This can be used to create a dummy / string event. i.e. A dummy event can be turned On or Off but
it doesn’t actually do anything. The reason for providing dummy events is so that they can be used
on the action panel, in conjunction with other action buttons, for conditional logic applications.
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