Echelon OpenLNS Commissioning Tool - Manual (Page 96)

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You can also have automatic channel selection enabled by default in each OpenLNS CT drawing you
create or open. In the OpenLNS CT Design Manager, click the OpenLNS CT Default Options tab,
select Device from the Options Category list, and then select the Enable Automatic Channel
Selection check box.
The order of the criteria used by OpenLNS CT to select the appropriate channel is as follows: (1)
closest qualified channel to the device SmartShape, in which the channel SmartShape is within 1 ½
times the width of the device SmartShape; (2) most recently used or created channel; and (3) other
available defined channels. If no channel can be selected using the preceding criteria, the New Device
Wizard will appear.
Automatic channel selection only applies to those device SmartShapes that include a device template
definition and channel type information such as master device SmartShapes and copies of existing
device SmartShapes. The New Device Wizard will therefore always appear when you drag the generic
Device SmartShape from the OpenLNS CT Basic Shapes stencil to your OpenLNS CT drawing.
Changing the Channel of an Application Device
You can move an application device to a different channel, preserving the device’s configuration and
all of its connections. You can do this to assign a device to a channel different than the one that was
automatically selected by OpenLNS CT, or to physically move a device to a different compatible
channel. To move a device to a different channel, you can either right-click the device and then click
Move Device on the shortcut menu, or you can use the Connector tool on the Visio Standard toolbar
to graphically move the device.
To use the Move Device command, right-click the device SmartShape and click Move Device on the
shortcut menu. See Moving OpenLNS CT SmartShapes in this chapter for how to move a device using
the Move Device command.
To use the Visio Connector tool to move the device, follow these steps:
1. Select the Connector tool ( ) on the Visio Standard toolbar.
2. Position the Connector tool over the “x” connection point of the device so that a red box opens
over the “x”.