Copy Menu - Centsys Lattice Installation Manual

4.3.4.6. If update by "tAg" is required move to level 4 by presenting and holding the

5. Copy Menu

The fifth menu on the main menu is the copy menu. This menu together with the "template" menu
(described later) provides the facility to copy all the settings existing on a specific tag to others. This is a
very convenient and easy way to set-up tags on a system.
There are two main ways in which tags can be copied:
The first is a known as "duplicate" where an existing tag is presented to the L1000 and any new tags
then presented to the reader are copied. This means that the supervisor could keep a few extra,
labelled, tags which have the settings of groups of people stored on those tags. If a new member
has to be added to any of those groups and a tag needs to be created with those parameters, the
supervisor simply gets into the duplicate menu, presents his "master" for that group to the readers
and then copies new tags with this group's details.
The second method creates and stores a "template" in memory (see Template menu) which
has all the parameters of a tag stored in it. This template can either be created from scratch, (in
a manner virtually identical to learning a new tag), or by simply copying the parameters from an
existing tag into the template. Once a template exists, any new tags are simply copied from this
template to the new tags. Only one template can exist at any one time.
The process is very simple and is shown in the Copy menu structure in Figure 33.
As will be seen from the structure there are three distinct ways in which tags can be copied:
DUP - Duplicates an existing tag. Any tag which the system already has stored in memory can
become a template. Multiple new tags can then be presented to take on the parameters of
the existing tag.
Id - The programme will copy the template into a selected starting ID. The first new tag presented
will take on this selected ID. Any subsequent tags will increment the ID.
"n" - (i.e. multiple tags (n) are learned to only one ID). The programme will copy the template into a
selected starting ID. The first, and subsequent, new tags presented all take on this selected
ID.
"Admin" tag. The following is displayed.
4.3.4.6.1. Present the tag that needs to be updated.
4.3.4.6.2. The display flashes up the tag ID number, with either the RHS red LED, or
the centre green LED. The green LED indicates that the tag is linked to this
head, while the red LED indicates that the tag is NOT operational at this
head.
4.3.4.6.3. Present and remove the tag to toggle the status to the require state (i.e.
linked to this head (green LED) or deleted from this head (red LED).
Presenting and removing the "Admin" tag to the unit with the
displayed will exit back to "tAg"
swops to the RHS red LED, or vice versa. ALL ID's displayed
with the red LED illuminated will be deleted from this head. If
these tags are deleted from the L1000, they will, in future,
display as "ASC" and not show their old ID number.
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