Grass Valley NV9000-SE v.5.0 - Manual (Page 171)

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NV9000-SE Utilities
User’s Guide
the list becomes
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 67,
where 5 and 6 are the new entries and the indexes do not change.
Edit Device
This button causes NV9000-SE Utilities to display the device details page for each of the devices
you select.
Use click, shift-click, and control-click techniques to select one or more devices in the device list.
See Device Details Page on page 142.
Delete Device
This button removes all the devices you selected from the categories device list, immediately.
(There is no warning dialog.)
Use click, shift-click, and control-click techniques to select one or more devices in the device list.
Add Suffix
This button causes NV9000-SE Utilities to display an ‘Input’ dialog in which you can specify a
suffix:
You can enter any text string, up to 4 characters. We recommend that you restrict your text
string to alphanumeric characters.
Click ‘OK’ to confirm that you want the new suffix. Otherwise, click ‘Cancel’.
The suffix you define becomes available globally, for all categories.
(If you want to delete suffixes, go to the ‘Suffixes’ table under the ‘Views’ pane.)
Auto-Fill Suffixes
“Auto-fill” is where NV9000-SE Utilities fills the suffix fields of specific devices by parsing the
device mnemonics to discover what suffixes they contains. If it discovers suffixes in the device
mmemonic, it places those in consecutive suffix columns, starting at suffix 1.
The process overwrites the suffixes currently assigned to the devices.
The benefits of auto-fill are that (1) you can create suffixes that match your device mnemonics
exactly and (2) the process is very quick compared to encoding all suffixes by hand.
For example, the mnemonic “CAM 185” has a base name of “CAM” and 3 suffixes, “1,” “8,” and “5,”
separated by a space character. The 3 suffixes will appear as suffix 1, suffix 2, and suffix 3 for that
device.
 “Auto-fill” might fail to parse certain device names if they are ill-conditioned. Names suitable
for auto-fill start with a base name and end with a number. The number is typically sepa-
rated from the base name by a character such as a space or an underbar (_).