Grass Valley iTX System v.2.6 - Manual (Page 284)

Using iTX Desktop layouts for system administration
4. If you want the generated name to include a number that increments with each new name,
do the following.
• In the Rule Elements list, expand the Sequence category; click Sequence; click to
display the Choose A Sequence To Use dialog.
• Select a sequence; click OK to close the dialog.
The sequence appears in the Current Rule list. The Preview box displays a sample name,
resulting from the rule in its current state.
Note: You can create sequences in the sequence-management panel. See later in this
section, “Create a sequence for an automatically generated name”.
5. If you want the generated name to include text entered by an operator at the time the
OPUS 2 Service creates the name, do the following.
• In the Rule Elements list, expand the Text category; click Parameter: INPUT; click to
display the Text Parameter Properties dialog.
• In the Text ID box, enter the text label you want to appear on the Rule Text Parameter
component – the iTX Desktop component that enables an operator to insert text in the
automatically generated name.
• In the Character Mask box, enter characters that you do not want the operator to be
able to use (e.g. punctuation marks).
• In the Text Length box, specify the maximum permissible number of characters in the
operator text entry.
• Leave the Padding button unselected (a red “x” is displayed) and the Padding Text box
empty.
• Click OK to close the dialog.
The rule element appears in the Current Rule list. The Preview box displays a sample name,
resulting from the rule in its current state.
6. If you want to re-position any of the rule elements in the Current Rule list, click its name
and then either or .
7. If you want to remove any of the rule elements from the Current Rule list, click its name
and then .
Create a sequence for an automatically generated name
When the same sequence appears in multiple naming rules, the sequence increments each
time the OPUS 2 Service creates a name based on any of these rules. So, the names it creates
for any one rule may not form a continuous series.
For example: If one rule includes fixed text “abc” and another includes fixed text “xyz”, and
both use the same sequence, the OPUS 2 Service may generate a set of names like this: abc001,
abc002, xyz003, abc004, xyz005.
If you do not want different naming rules to share a sequence, you may create a new sequence
(instead of using an existing one) when you include a Sequence element in a naming rule.
To create, edit or delete a sequence, you use the features in the sequence-management panel
on the Naming Rule Administrator:
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