Watlow ANAWIN 2 - Manual (Page 14)

1-6 AnaWin User’s Guide
Installation and Setup
Channel Grouping
Select Channel Grouping from the System menu to display the Channel
Grouping setup screen, shown in Figure 1-4. This screen allows you to
set up channel groups. Select Allow Channel Grouping in order to allow
channel grouping.
When channels are grouped, the spreadsheet view shows only one group
of channels at a time. Recipes and recipe management are also group-
specific—each group has its own set of recipes.
NOTE
Setting up channel groups deletes pre-existing recipes and logged
data. Group channels only if you want separate recipe control for
certain channels.
By default, AnaWin creates one group with all the controllers’ loops. To
separate channels into defined groups, follow these steps:
1. Select Allow Channel Grouping.
2. Select the Default group in the Group Name field.
3. Click Delete to delete the Default group.
4. Click New and enter a Name for the new group.
5. Select a Controller in the Available panel.
6. Use the Start channel and End Channel fields to define a sequence
of channels to be included in the group.
7. Click Add to add the specified channels for the selected controller to
the group. The channels you add are listed in the group panel.
8. Repeat steps 4-7 to create additional groups until you have put all
the channels into a group. Any channels that you do not put in a
group will not be available in AnaWin.
NOTE
A group must consist of contiguous sets of loops from within any
one controller, though it may contain sets of contiguous sets of
loops from several controllers
Allow Channel Grouping
You must select the Allow Channel Grouping option in order to be able
to group channels. With channel grouping, you can establish related
blocks of channels for display and editing purposes. These groups can
cross more than one controller, but must be in sequence. For instance,
one group might include channels 1 to 10, and another, channels 11 to
16 etc. But you would not be able to have a group that included channels
2, 5, 6, 7, and 9, because they are not all in sequence.