View Menu

View Menu

All Views are optional and dockable, so the user can place a view on a preferred place on the screen. When the application is closed the workspace settings are saved and will be restored when restarted.

System View

This view contains displays the current frames and cards in the CommandCenter network. The icons in the device tree indicates the status priority level of all levels within the tree which summarises both the current and historical status. This menu item gives the input focus to the view if it exits, or creates the view if not.

Navigation View

This view allows you to create a customised user interface in the navigation if desired. When this user option is not enabled then the view is empty and should be hidden.

Device View

This view contains several tabbed dialogs (Control, Monitoring and Classic) that allow the user to control and view status information about the selected device. This menu item gives the input focus to the view if it exits, or creates the view if not.

Manual View

This view shows the manual for the currently selected card, it can be docked outside the main window to allow the manual to be viewed at the same time as controlling or monitoring the cards status. This menu item gives the input focus to the view if it exits, or creates the view if not. Note this option is only available if it has been enabled in the General tab of the CommandCenter Configuration dialog and also relies on a Adobe pdf compatible reader to be installed on the PC.

Event Log

This view contains a list of events (status, alarm and optionally control) that have occurred on the CommandCenter system. The data is stored in an SQL database and can be filtered on different user criteria. This menu item gives the input focus to the view if it exits, or creates the view if not.

Audit Trail

This menu item allows the Audit Trail dialog to be shown or hidden. This dialog displays the audit messages used for program operation logging. The amount of data recorded is configured from the Audit tab of the Configuration dialog.

Engineering

Backup User Tables

This menu item allows the user to backup the user configuration to an external file. This can be later restored or used to configure another CommandCenter application. These configuration items include all data that CommandCenter cannot retrieve from the cards directly.

Restore User Tables

This menu item will tell the application to load the user configuration from an external file the next time the application is started, as this operation cannot be performed when the application is running.

Logic Diagnostics

This feature is used for diagnostic purposes only and has no function within the operation CommandCenter software. This menu item will display a dialog of the automatically generated logic gates processed by CommandCenter to work out the status of the system. The dialog is split into three windows, a list of all logic elements are displayed in the middle window, On selecting one of these logic gates, a list of the inputs for this logic element is shown in the left hand window and a list of the logic elements this gate is providing is shown in the right hand window.

SNMP Errors

This dialog shows any errors as a result of parsing the loaded SNMP MIBs files.

Configure CommandCenter Hardware

As the hardware units have no user interface, this dialog utility allows the parameters of the unit to be configured. The unit will default to an IP address of 192.168.0.100 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. If required these settings can be reset to their default value by pressing the default button on the rear of the unit whilst powering the unit on or resetting the unit. Note: The unit cannot be configured in this utility if it is currently connected in the main CommandCenter application.

Signal Path Diagnostics

This option is only intended for Grass Valley use only.

Generic Device Debug

This option is only intended for Grass Valley use only.

Lock All Views

This menu item locks the views and stops the user from being able to change the window layout from their current settings.

Hide Docked Window Titles

This menu item will disable/enable the title bar at the top of all docked views.

Refresh All Views (F10)

CommandCenter will cache the CommandCenter Layout Files (clf) files that it uses for the Device, Control and Navigation views, using this option or pressing the F10 key will clear the cache and reload the clf files for the currently selected device and/or view. This option is useful when using the CommandCenter form designer so that the latest change made can be viewed from Cortex without closing the application.

Full Screen Mode (F11)

CommandCenter will by default run in a frame window. Using this option (or by pressing the F11 function key) will run the application in full screen mode and will hide the title bar of the application, and the Windows task bar. If the menu bar and status bar are hidden and only one view is selected, then it is possible to make this view the full size of the windows desktop, for example when using the application in a touch screen environment. Reload All Files Reloads all files and send and changes to CommandCenter clients. Reset Views Resets all views to default layout.

Status Bar

This menu item allows the Status Bar to be shown or hidden. The status bar of CommandCenter shows the current system status, a progress bar for lengthy operations such as Force Network Refresh and indications for cap and num lock. In some situations particularly more vertical space is required for displaying

Menu Bar

This menu item allows the Menu Bar to be shown or hidden, when hiding the menu bar right clicking on a part of the CommandCenter frame not occupied by a dockable window will display the View menu so access can be gained to change the views and enable the menu bar again.