ETS5 supports two primary presentation modes, the tree view and the list view. The following properties apply to them.
| # | Tree view | List view |
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| Form of Display |
Group Address: <VALUE>" " <NAME> Building Part/Trade: <NAME> Device: <VALUE>" " <DESCRIPTION>** " "<NAME> |
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| Limitations |
The width of the view cannot be expanded indefinitely. This is determined even just by the space available on the screen. The <DESCRIPTION> allows a very high number of characters and therefore a restriction for the display must be defined here: <NAME>: > 128 <DESCRIPTION>: 50 characters; no ... indicator for further characters. <VALUE>: complete |
The width of the view cannot be expanded indefinitely. This is determined even just by the space available on the screen. The <DESCRIPTION> allows a very high number of characters and therefore a restriction for the display must be defined here: <NAME>: > 128 <DESCRIPTION>: 50 characters ... indicator for further characters. <VALUE>: complete |
** Because the name (if not changed explicitly) of several devices of the same type would always be identical (i.e. product name), it would therefore not be possible to distinguish between such devices in the tree view (if the view has the "normal" width, because then the Description would be truncated).
This is why the description always comes before the display of the name in the tree. This can be used individually per device so that a user can always immediately see the respective device in the tree and not just a list containing the same device.
Information on handling <NAME> fields (including blank ones) for the individual elements can be found here.