Crestron
e-control Vote SW-VOTE
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Operations
Installation & Reference Guide — DOC. 5822
This checkbox is found under the
Control System Interface
tab of the
Voting Console Signal Block
Definition
window.
If proctoring a vote from a touchpanel, before opening the floor to the vote, you
must either:
•
Pick one of the agenda item descriptions previously stored in the
Agenda
table from
the agenda scroller; or
•
Send a new agenda item description to the server using the
SetAgenda
signal.
This is only a requirement if the
Auto-name an unnamed vote upon receipt of Start
signal
checkbox is not checked.
N
OTE
:
The only items that will appear in the combo-box list or the agenda scroller are those that
have not yet been voted upon.
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Open Vote
The floor can be opened for a vote by:
•
clicking the
Take a Vote
button in the Voting Computer; or
•
pulsing the
Start
digital signal.
Successful open vote results in server transmitting the following signals to control
system:
•
Transmission of Agenda Item Description string via
AgendaEcho
serial signal.
•
Assert of
StateStart
(see “,” )
•
Clearing of all Tally signals (see below) (i.e., analogs set to 0; digitals cleared); and
•
Clearing of all seats (i.e., all
Ballot
i
signals set to 0); an
4
Balloting
Ballot signals are now accepted by server from control system (where
i
represents
the seat number):
•
Yes
i
digital pulse
•
No
i
digital pulse
•
Abstain
i
digital pulse
On every ballot signal thus received, tally signals may be transmitted from the server
back to the control system. These signals represent the vote received, sums of
different kinds of votes, as well as total votes and passage information:
•
Status
i
analog
•
TallyNo
analog
•
TallyAbstain
analog
•
TallyTotal
analog
•
TallyQuorum
digital assert or de-assert
•
TallyCarried
digital assert or de-assert
•
Tally23Majority
digital assert or de-assert
The
Status
i
signals are set to one of the following values :
Value
Internal Symbol
Typical Display Symbol
0
BALLOT_ABSENT
X
Blank
or
circle-slash
1
BALLOT_PRESENT
•
Empty circle
2
BALLOT_YES
˜
Solid green circle
3
BALLOT_NO
˜
Solid red circle
