MTS Series 793 - Manual (Page 72)

About Display and Internal Names
The Display name is the name of the channel resource as you would like it to appear in the navigation pane.
Typically, this name is changed to describe a test channel more precisely.
For example, if you have a system with left and right front and rear channels, you may choose to assign those
names to the associated valve driver resources, as shown.
The Internal name is the channel resource name used internally by other software applications for channel
and signal mapping. In most cases, you should not change the default internal name. This allows better
portability of the station configuration to other systems, especially when assigning multilingual display names.
Note:
If you change the internal name, the display name is not affected unless the internal and display names
are the same.
In the Station Configuration window you can select Show internal names to replace Display names with
Internal names in the navigation pane and station resource lists.
Naming Considerations for External Commands
In Series 793 applications version 5.0 and later, external command resources are automatically distributed
to their associated channel input lists in the Station Manager application.
For example, suppose you allocate an external command resource to a channel named “Chan 1” in the Station
Builder application. The result is that the external command resource will be available in “Chan 1” input lists
in the Station Manager application.
In earlier versions, external command resources were not prefixed with their channel name. If you wanted
an external command resource to appear in the signal lists associated with a channel, you had to manually
add the channel prefix to the external command resource name.
In Series 793 applications version 5.0 and later, if you open a station configuration created with an earlier
version that contains an external command resource, its name will appear as follows:
• If it has already been prefixed with the channel name, it will remain as is, and will appear in the associated
channel lists in the Station Manager application.
• If it has not been prefixed the channel name, the application will prefix the signal name with a special
marker “<->”. External command resources with this marker will be available in the Station Manager Station
Setup window as Auxiliary Inputs, and in the Scope and Meters as “Others”.
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