Category And Suffix Pages - GRASS VALLEY NV9649 User Manual

Configuration
Category Lists and Category Pages

Category and Suffix Pages

Using category pages (and suffix pages) during panel operation, panel operators can select
devices in 4 steps:
1 Place the panel in either source mode or destination mode, as required.
Note that if any category buttons are already showing on the panel, those category
buttons can be used to select a category (and the operator may skip to step 4 below).
2 Turn the knob until the desired category page appears. Then press one of those
buttons to select that category.
The different category page names show in the 'Info' display as you turn the knob.
3 When the category is selected, the first of the suffix pages (if any have been defined)
appears. If no suffix pages have been defined, the panel's buttons will be blank and the
operator must use step 4b below.
4 The operator now has a choice: (a) use the suffix pages, appending suffixes to the
category mmemonic, or (b) use the knob to scroll through device names.
a Use the suffix pages.
b Use the knob to scroll through devices.
You, the configurer, will define one or more "pages" for source categories, one or more
pages for destination catetories, and (usually) one or more pages for suffixes. The pages
need not be fully populated.
 If your panel is using category pages, you must create at least one page of source cate-
gories and at least one page of destination categories. Suffix pages are optional.
There are 3 buttons available when you have checked the 'Use Category & Suffix Pages'
panel option:
• Edit Src Categories
• Edit Dst Categories
• Edit Suffixes
Click any of these buttons to create or modify category pages and suffix pages. When you
click the button, the appropriate configuration dialog appears.

Suffix pages used by category pages under the 'Panel Server' model have no relation-
ship to the global suffix pages available for NV9649 panels configured unde the LCD
XY/MD model.
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The operator forms a device name by appending suffixes to the category
mnemonic. The operator may press any suffix button in any suffix page. The
operator can use the panel's knob to scroll through suffix pages.
When the operator stops entering suffixes, the device is considered selected.
To use this method of device selection, the operator must press the knob. When the
operator presses the knob, the panel enters a mode in which the operator can turn
the knob to scroll through the list of devices that belong to the category selected
in step 2.
When the operator stops turning the knob, the device is considered selected.