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Button Menu Types Button Menu Pages Button Maker | Customizing Scale Screens One of the unique features of Scrap Dragon is the ability to setup your own custom screens for purchasing scrap at the scale. When you setup your commodity master file, you created default buttons for each commodity. Now, you will use those buttons to define screens for each scale. Button Menu Types Select from the Master Files Menu; Commodity; Button Menu Types. You can create different scale screens for each scale (e.g.. Ferrous and Nonferrous). The specific screen which is active at a particular workstation is specified in Local Computer Options for each computer. If you setup a computer at a scale where you would be buying ferrous scrap, you would setup the computer to show only the ferrous scale menus. The system comes with a Ferrous and Nonferrous menu type preinstalled. To create additional menu setup types, Press the Add button and enter the name of the new menu setup type. Press the save button. Repeat the process to add as many menu types as you will require. Button Menu Pages Within each Menu Type (Scale Screen), there can exist an unlimited number of menu pages. Before a menu page can be used within a menu type (scale screen), it must be specifically created here, Select from the Master Files Menu; Commodity; Button Menu Pages. Setup the different pages that you want to include on your scale screens. The Menu Page 'NONE' refers to the Home page. You can set up names for all the sub pages or sub menus you will need. This example shows a menu group name 'Shipping'. On our main screen we will have a button for shipping. When the operator touches it, it will open a sub menu or a sub page 'Shipping' - which we have setup here. Press the Add button to add new items. Save each item after it has been entered. On this menu you can use the Undo button to undo changes you have made in error. Button Maker The final step in the creation of the customized scale screens is performed using the Button Maker. This program allows you to assemble all of the elements that you have previously created into the customized screen that the scale operator will see and use. To access this program, select from the Master Files menu, Commodity; Button Maker. Now you can design your button layout, color schemes, menus and sub-menus. Setup Type Start the process by selecting the Menu Type. The home page of the menu will be displayed. If no buttons have been defined for this menu, you will see a blank screen. Things you might want to do in creating & editing your scale screens: 1. Add a button 2. Set/modify the buttons properties 3. Remove/replace a button 4. Create & modify a sub-menu Add a button To add a new button to the grid, simply click on a blank cell in which you want the button to appear. Your list of available commodities will be displayed. Find the item you wish to add, click on it, and then press the Select button. The new button will appear in the menu grid using the default background color, text color and font size from the commodity master file. If you do not see the commodity in the list, you may have forgotten to set it up in the commodity master file. Set/Modify a button's properties You may edit the properties of any button by clicking on it. You can override the default background color, text color and font size. To set a button to trigger a call to another page or sub-menu, select the sub-menu from the drop down box Calls Page. Remove a button New buttons can only be added to a blank cell in the grid. Once a button has been placed into the grid, any subsequent selection of that cell of the grid will only permit modification of the characteristics of the button. Therefore, to replace a button, it is first necessary to remove it. Simply click into the cell to be removed and then click on clear button. After confirming your intentions, the cell will be cleared. Create & modify a sub-menu To switch to another menu page (or sub menu) go to the drop down box Menu Page. The drop down list will be choices which you set up in the Button Menu Pages. Once you have selected a choice from the list it will be displayed as the current menu page. Press the 'Home' button at any time to return to your main menu. Back to Setup Checklist Forward to Scale Button Labels