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Following are some of the general options available in the TL1 Craft Interface.
This option is invoked by selecting Find from the Edit menu or from the toolbar icon. It searches a particular child node under a selected node in the TL1 Message Tree easily.
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Find What |
Uses this text in the search. |
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Find Next |
Searches for the next text in the TL1 Message Tree. |
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Close |
Ends the search operation and closes the dialog. |
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Match case |
Searches for case-sensitive occurrences of a text. This limits the search and locates the text that matches the uppercase and lowercase characters you enter. |
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Match whole word |
Search for occurrences of a text as whole words. |
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Note : The find option is supported only in the Tree mode. |
This option changes the look and feel of the Craft Interface. Three options are available, Metal, Motif, and Native. Any one of these options can be selected based on the platform. This menu can be hidden from the menu bar by disabling it in the Tools -> Options Window. The default UI Look and Feel used by the tool is Metal.
Generalize and Categorize Message Tree
This option is used to display the commands in the Message Tree either command-based or category-based. By default, all messages are listed command wise. To display the commands category wise, right-click on the Request node and select the Categorize button. Select the Generalize button to display them command-wise.
This option is used to expand and collapse all the nodes in the TL1 Message Tree. To perform this function, select the option by doing a right-click on the root node of TL1 Message Tree.
Glossary option in Command Set allows you to view description of a parameter, enumeration or range values. To use the glossary option, there must be an entry in the word list of that command set file. Also this entry must be associated with the parameter.
Assuming there is word list entry in the glossary for a set of parameters. Now, load the command set file and select the node in the command set which has a word list defined. The right panel displays a table as shown below. Click the "..." button present in the glossary column. The Glossary List panel appears which contains description about that parameter.
Show Messages in the Same Window
This option allows both Autonomous and Response messages to be shown in the same window. You can enable it by selecting it from the right-side panel of the main frame. By default, there will be two text areas; one for showing the response and acknowledgement messages and the other for showing autonomous messages. Selecting this option allows all the messages to be displayed in the same text area.
This option can be used to clear all the messages displayed in the text area. It can be selected by clicking the Clear Text from the Edit menu. You can also clear the messages through the text area pop up menu.
This tool is used to convert the input commands specified in the data set (.dat) file to a textual form. The resultant text file will have the complete list of input commands which can be loaded in Craft Interface as a list. This tool can be opened by selecting the Data To Text Conversion button from the Tools menu.
This option is used to describe the functionality of a particular component in the Craft Interface. To use this option, select the context-sensitive button available in that dialog and place it on the component you wish to know.
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