Grass Valley NV9601 v.2.2 - Manual (Page 48)

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Operation
Operating Concepts
Category Selection
Your panel has 10 fixed category buttons and perhaps other optional category buttons. The
fixed category buttons are arranged, like a telephone keypad, among the right-hand set of func-
tion buttons:
Every category button can represent up to three items: a source category, a destination cate-
gory, and a suffix. By pressing category buttons in succession, you can construct a device name.
A category button selects a source category immediately after you place the panel in source
mode by pressing a ‘Source Mode’ button (or a ‘Src/Dst Mode’ button).
A category button selects a destination category immediately after you place the panel in desti-
nation mode by pressing a ‘Destination Mode’ button (or a ‘Src/Dst Mode’ button).
After you select a category, the category name appears as the first part of a device name you are
building. The category buttons you press subsequently select suffixes which are appended to
the device name you have built so far. As you continue to append suffixes, the category buttons
that no longer apply to the name you are building become disabled. In fact, at some point all
the category buttons might become disabled.
Suffixes may be numeric or alphanumeric, and up to 4 characters in length. Any device may
have up to 8 suffixes. However, device mnemonics are limited to 8 characters. Therefore, the
usual
— and default — suffixes are just the numerals 0 –9.
Example: you want to select the source device CAM_12 .
1 Press ‘Source Mode’ or ‘Src/Dst’ (if the panel is not already in source mode).
2 Press the category button that selects category CAM . The display shows CAM_____ .
3 Press the category button for suffix 1. The display shows CAM__1 or a similar name.
4 Press the category button for suffix 2. The display now shows CAM_12 .
At this point, you could press a ‘Clear’ button — as you would a backspace key — to erase the
most recent entries in the name. If you press ‘Clear’ once, it would erase the “2” you just
entered.
5 The desired source is selected.
Category Buttons for Rapid MD Device Selection
Category buttons (that are numeric suffix buttons) also allow you to enter a page number for
multi-destination devices. This is a convenience, but it is available only in MD mode when no
category device selection is in progress.
For example, if you have 512 MD devices, there would be 64 pages of MD devices. In MD mode,
if you press category suffix buttons “3” and then “4” (if your panel has them), the display imme-
diately jumps to page 34 of the MD devices. This shortcut saves you the trouble of pressing
‘Page Up’ or ‘Page Down’ to scroll through the device pages.