GE DEH-210 manual Small Faceplate Configuration

Small Faceplate Configuration

The Small Faceplate wizard for the PMCS Advanced Wizards offers additional functions beyond simply opening a designated window. If you so choose, you may configure a single Large Faceplate/Tabular wizard for each device type, regardless of how many actual devices of that type are installed, and use multiple Small Faceplate wizards to access data on each device. This feature operates by assigning an identity to each Small Faceplate wizard, and passing this identity information to the Large Faceplate/Tabular wizard when the Small Faceplate wizard is selected. The single Large Faceplate/Tabular wizard opens, displaying the data for the selected device.

The many-to-one wizard configuration offers substantial configuration time savings and memory savings, especially for the EPM 7700, where each Large Faceplate/Tabular wizard actually consists of eight separate screens. A minor drawback to this approach is that you may only display the Large Faceplate/Tabular wizard for a single device at a time. To view data on a different Advanced Wizard sharing this Large Faceplate/Tabular screen, you must close the Large Faceplate/Tabular wizard and open it again through the desired device's Small Faceplate wizard.

If you choose to use this many-to-one technique, select the Advanced checkbox in the Wizard Configuration dialog, as shown in the following figure. If the Advanced checkbox is not selected, the Small Faceplate wizard functions like any other Small Faceplate wizard, simply opening the selected screen.

Selecting the OK button in the Screen To Open dialog box, with a device screen selected and the Advanced checkbox selected, displays the Wizard Setup dialog box (shown below), prompting you to choose the identity of the device you wish to associate with this Small Faceplate Wizard.

24 ∙ Configuring and Using PMCS Wizards PMCS Interface Toolkit