Grass Valley NV9649 v.1.1 - Manual (Page 39)

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NV9649
User’s Guide
• Use Category and Suffix Pages.
If you check this option, the panel uses category pages (with associated suffix pages) to per-
form device selection.
If you clear this option, the panel uses category lists to perform device selection.
Further, the panel options section shows different buttons according to whether you have
checked this option.
See Category List , following, for details regarding category list configuration.
See Category and Suffix Pages on page 29 for details regarding category page configuration.
Category Lists and Category Pages
Under the ‘Panel Server’ model, panel operators may select devices using either a category list
or category pages. (The two methods are mutually exclusive. A panel can be configured in one
way or the other.)
An NV9649 that is configured for device selection by category list shows “CatLists” in its ‘Info’
display. An NV9649 that is configured for device selection by category page shows “CatPages” in
its ‘Info’ display.
Category List
Using a category list, panel operators can select devices in 3 steps:
1 Place the panel in either source mode or destination mode, as required.
2 Turn the knob until the desired device category mnemonic appears in the preset display.
Then press the knob to select that category.
3 When the category has been selected, the operator can now either turn the knob to select a
device within the category, or press suffix (or index) buttons to “build” a device name from
the category mnemonic and the pressed suffixes. The operator can actually use both tech-
niques to select a device in the category.
To minimize the number of categories through which the operator must search, the configurer
must define a category list that includes only the categories through which the operator may
browse using the knob. The list is independent of the categories represented on buttons.
 The operator cannot select categories with the knob unless you define two category lists,
one for sources and one for destinations. The category list may, of course, include all
categories.