Rules For Navigating A Template; Template Wide Conventions; Creating Navigation Elements - AMX MIO-R4 Operation/Reference Manual

Working With Templates

Rules for Navigating A Template

In addition to the template requirements and required elements there are rules for navigating the
templates and template wide conventions you need to heed.
When navigating to a Device, Feature or Placeholder element from a Navigation element:
Any Sub-Navigation elements that may have been currently displayed will be hidden.
When navigating to a Device, Feature or Placeholder element from a Sub-Navigation element:
Info buttons are optional and only have to be included within an element if either the order the popup
pages is shown is important, if not all popup pages should be initially shown, or if an icon is used on the
corresponding Navigation or Sub-Navigation button. If the Info button is omitted, popup pages are
shown in alphabetical order.

Template Wide Conventions

Creating Navigation Elements

In order for a TP4 file to be successfully exported as a G4 PanelBuilder Template file (*.TPT), the TP4
project file must contain at least one Navigation Element.
A Navigation element consists of at least one popup (may contain multiple popups), and represents the
place where you make most navigation selections (i.e. a main menu page).
To create a basic Navigation element, create a new popup page (Panel > Add Popup Page), and name it
according to the naming convention required by G4 PanelBuilder for Navigation elements:
[nav#navName]pageName
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Hide all popups on the page for that element.
Perform the standard page flip to the page for that element.
Show any popups for the element.
Show any popups for the linked Sub-Feature, when applicable.
Show the Navigation element that linked to the element.
Hide all popups on the page for that element.
Perform the standard page flip to the page for that element.
Show any popups for the element.
Show any popups for the linked Sub-Feature, when applicable.
Show the Navigation element that linked to the Sub-Navigation element or chain.
For Sub-Navigations the user must set "Hide On Action" to No, then show the Sub-Navigation
element that linked to the element. Otherwise, the Sub-Navigation is not shown.
Text Replacement - The string "[text]" is required on the button wherever text is to be
replaced in the output file. The string "[text]" allows you to prepend/postpend text with
characters. If the text on a button to be replaced does not contain '[text]" then it is unchanged.
Panel Title - A template can contain as many buttons named "[panelTitle]" as necessary, they
are replaced with the "Job Name" of the panel.
Preview Images - A template must contain a main preview image and can also contain a
preview image for each element. The main preview image should be named '[preview].jpg"
(or .png). The element previews should follow the same naming conventions as their page
prefixes, i.e., "[device#DVD].jpg." There can only be one preview image per element.
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