At the bottom of the main asynchronous communications window are ten blank buttons. You can customize these buttons to create “shortcuts” to frequently used asynchronous commands. However, these buttons are available only on this window and are not accessible within the normal lights-out-processing mode of EC Gateway.
To customize these buttons, select Buttons from the Setup menu on the main communications window to display the Button Definitions window.
Field name |
Description |
|---|---|
Button |
Select a button number (1 – 10) from the drop-down list. Each number is a location of a button at the bottom of the main asynchronous window. Refer to the example below. |
Caption |
Type the caption that you want to appear on the button. Enter any short string of characters. This should be a short, easy-to-understand description of the action caused by clicking the button. In this example, button 10 was entered as a caption. After you enter the caption, the string is listed in the Button entry box and on the button itself. |
Text |
The asynchronous communications command that is given when the user selects this button.
|
Add Cr Lf |
Click this check box to add a carriage return/line feed at the end of the command line. |
Quit |
Select the Quit button to finish your specification of this button. |
When you have finished customizing the buttons, click Quit to return to the main asynchronous communications window. pfs/Async is configured and ready to use.
The system does not check the validity of the command
you enter.