Screen Structure And Navigation - HP ProCurve 6400cl Series Management And Configuration Manual

Screen Structure and Navigation

Menu interface screens include these three elements:
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For example, in the following System Information screen:
Screen title – identifies
the location within the
menu structure
Actions line
Help line
describing the
selected action
or selected
parameter field
Figure 3-4. Elements of the Screen Structure
"Forms" Design. The configuration screens, in particular, operate similarly
to a number of PC applications that use forms for data entry. When you first
enter these screens, you see the current configuration for the item you have
selected. To change the configuration, the basic operation is to:
1.
2. Navigate through the screen making all the necessary configuration
3. Press
Parameter fields and/or read-only information such as statistics
Navigation and configuration actions, such as Save, Edit, and Cancel
Help line to describe navigation options, individual parameters, and read-
only data
to select the Edit action.
Press [E]
changes. (See Table 4-1 on the next page.)
to return to the Actions line. From there you can save the
[Enter]
configuration changes or cancel the changes. Cancel returns the configu­
ration to the values you saw when you first entered the screen.
Using the Menu Interface
Screen Structure and Navigation
Parameter fields
Help describing each of the
items in the parameter fields
Navigation instructions
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