Classic Controls - Controls Tab

Navigation

The Controls Tab is located on the Classic Controls Editor.

Overview

The Controls tab is divided into sections:

The pane in the center of the dialog box is the Controls List and displays a list of all Controls defined in the system.
Located above the Controls List is a toolbar with the following buttons:
- New—Creates a new control.
- Delete—Deletes the highlighted control.
- Duplicate—Opens a submenu with the following options:
  - Duplicate (Full - create new conditions and actions)
  - Duplicate (Partial - use existing conditions and actions)
- Control Sets—Edits Control Sets. Click the dropdown for additional options:
  - Control Sets: Opens the Control Sets Editor dialog box.
  - Edit Control Sets...: Opens the Control Sets Editor dialog box with the table populated by sets that include the currently selected control.
  - Add/Remove Control Sets: Opens the Add/Remove Control Sets dialog box, allowing you to add, remove, and manage your control sets.
- Control Wizard—Opens the Control Wizard dialog.
- Import Controls—Allows you to select a control file (.ctl) to import.
- Export Controls—Allows you to export the current controls to a control file (.ctl).
- Report—Generates a summary of the selected control, listing the ID, conditions, actions, and elements incorporated into the control.
- Help—Opens the online help.

Below the toolbar is a set of filters that allow you to only display controls that meet criteria defined by the filter settings. The following filters are available:

Type—When a Type filter other than <All> is specified, only controls of that type will be displayed in the Controls list.
Priority—When a Priority filter other than <All> is specified, only controls of that priority will be displayed in the Controls list.
Condition Element—When a Condition filter other than <All> is specified, only controls containing the selected Condition element will be displayed in the Controls list. You can filter the available conditions to include only conditions that are applicable to the element or elements that are currently selected in the drawing pane by selecting the <Current Selection> option.
Action Element—When an Action filter other than <All> is specified, only controls containing the selected Action element will be displayed in the Controls list. You can filter the available actions to include only actions that are applicable to the element or elements that are currently selected in the drawing pane by selecting the <Current Selection> option.

Note: You can select one or more controls in the list and right-click to Edit Control Sets for Selected Controls.

The lower pane is split into sections:

Evaluate as Simple Control—Turn on in order to evaluate the condition as a simple control.
IF Condition—The drop-down list allows you to choose from a list of conditions that have already been created in the Conditions tab.
THEN Action—The drop-down list allows you to choose from a list of actions that have already been created in the Actions tab.
ELSE Action (optional)—The ELSE action is used when the conditions for the control are not met. To specify an ELSE action, click the check box to activate the drop-down list. The drop-down list allows you to choose from a list of actions that have already been created in the Actions tab.
Priority—Priority is optional. To set a priority for the control being created, turn on to activate the priority drop-down list. You can set a priority of 1-5, 5 being the highest priority. If multiple controls meet a certain condition and they have conflicting actions, the control with the highest priority will be used.

Hovering the mouse cursor over a control in the list will open a tooltip which displays the conditions and actions that make up that control. When creating a new condition or action for a new control, the condition and action input fields will be initialized with the data used in the last condition or action that was created. Once created, the Logical Control will be assigned an application generated ID (e.g., LC04).

Description—This area is preset with a default description. There is an option to change the default description. To do so, turn on to activate the description field, and enter your description in the text box.
Summary—This area of the dialog box displays a description of the control.
Status Pane—When one or more filters are active, the lower left corner of the dialog will show the number of controls currently displayed out of the number of total controls. Additionally, a FILTERED flag is displayed in the lower right corner.

Note: When defining a control, you can optionally choose to share conditions and/or actions. In other words, more than one control can reference the same condition or action. We don’t recommend this in general but is supported. Keep in mind that when you change an underlying condition or action that is shared, it will affect all controls that reference that condition or action.