GE DEH-210 manual Features of Tabular Data Screen Wizards, Features of Tabular Data Screens

Features of Tabular Data Screen Wizards

Introduction

This chapter describes the features available with tabular data screens. The set of features basic to all tabular data screens is described first, then any unique features are described for each device.

Features of Tabular Data Screens

The upper left-hand area of every tabular data screen contains a 3-D graphic of the device faceplate. This graphic is simply to verify identification and is not animated.

The middle area on the left-hand side displays common information about the device. It provides a quick indication of how the device is configured and contains no animation.

The buttons on the lower-left of the screen provide features described below. Not all devices support all of these buttons, so on some screens one or more of the buttons may be grayed out.

∙The Help button calls up the PMCS help file with regard to the current device.

∙The Exit button closes the tabular data screen.

∙The Events button starts or jumps to the PMCS Event Logger client program and displays its window in the foreground.

∙The Trend button displays the trend window that was specified in the configuration dialog. The button will be disabled if no trend window was specified during configuration of the Wizard.

∙The Wave button runs the PMCS Waveform Capture client program for that device. This button is only enabled for devices supporting waveform capture.

∙The Setup button, when present on Multilin device wizards, attempts to launch the xxxPC device setup program. The exception to this is the PMCS Advanced Wizards (EPM 7300, EPM 7700, and SR750/SR760), for which the Setup button has no function. It is up to the system

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