Hired-Hand HH Software: Farm Manager - Manual (Page 8)

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Collapse Tree - This option provides a quick way to collapse the entire contents of the Farm Structure
tree.
Poll Network - Although Farm Manager continuously polls the network at specified intervals, this option
will cause an immediate poll.
View Organizer - This option provides access to the Farm Manager Organizer. See Section 18 for a
discussion of the use of the Organizer.
Help – Brings up the Help menu. See Section 14.
The other Tool Bar shortcuts are discussed in the File and View menus in Sections 11 and 12 respectively.
10. Drop-Down Menus
Additional menus are available from the Farm Manager main window by right clicking on a building, controller or a
file folder.
FILE VIEW OPTIONS HELP
The Network Statistics is similar to the communications status display, except the statistics presented are for a
specific controller. These Menus are discussed beginning in Section 11 .
11. File Menu
The Farm Manager File drop-down menu includes options that control the addition
and deletion of houses plus some helpful utilities. Under the New option, a New
House, New Controller or New Farm can be added as follows:
New House This option is also available from the Tool Bar by
clicking on the House icon. A new house will be added at the bottom of
the Farm Structure. To change the name, click on the new house name
and type a name of your choice. The number of the house is assigned sequentially.
New Farm This option is also available from the Tool Bar by clicking on the New Farm Icon.
Explorer will request a name for the new farm. The new Farm will then be added at the bottom of the farm
structure. To change the farm name, click on the new farm label and type a name of your choice.
New Controller This option is also available from the Tool Bar by clicking on the New Controller
icon. First, highlight the house in which the controller is to be added. The new controller will be added
at the bottom of the controllers already shown in the house. To finish the addition of a controller,
complete the information in the following screen. The following screen allows the choice of the available Farm
Hand vent and stage controllers. NOTE: Manually adding a new controller is normally not needed as Farm
Manager will add all controllers found during it’s poll of the HHNet.