The Smart Way To Buy Scrap
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.
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.