Specifications

Crestron e-control Mail SW-MAIL
27 •• Server Configuration In Depth Installation & Reference Guide — Doc. 5798
A “signal block” is a software
construct defined in the server
which communicates with special
symbols in the SIMPL program
running in your control system.
e-Mailer signal blocks
communicate with Send e-Mail
symbols.
e-Mailer signal blocks
communicate with plain
Intersystem Communications
(XSIG) symbol.
Each Standard Scroller signal
block communicates with a
particular DBMScroller macro.
The Signal Blocks tab (see below) displays a list of defined signal blocks. Three
types of signal blocks are available with an SW-MAIL license:
e-Mailer prepare and send outgoing e-mail messages
e-Mailbox download, select, and read incoming e-mail messages or
download and scan for control signal syntax and send such
signals if found.
Standard Scroller for interactive display of database tables in support of the
above.
The Standard Scroller signal block is a constrained form of the more robust
Custom Scroller signal block — which is only available if you are also licensed for
e-control Database Manager (SW-DBM). The Standard Scroller signal block has a
static configuration designed to interface with the included DBMScroller SIMPL
Windows macro. (If you use a Custom Scroller, you cannot use the macro.)
Without an SW-DBM license, Standard Scroller signal blocks cannot be directly
enabled via a signal from a control system. In that case, they are only useful when
attached to another type of signal block designed to control scrollers, in this case
e-Mailer and e-Mailbox signal blocks — which use them in support of their primary
functions, as follows:
• An e-Mailer signal block can use scrollers to display an address book and
prepared messages.
• An e-Mailbox signal block can use scrollers to display an IN box and a message.
When attached to a controlling signal block, a scroller (either type) is enabled
automatically when the controller is enabled. When not attached to a controlling
signal block, Standard Scrollers can only be enabled directly with an SW-DBM
license.
Specific differences between the two types of scroller signal blocks are summarized
in “Appendix E: Standard Scroller / Custom Scroller Feature Comparison” on page
108.
The Signal Blocks tab
The signal blocks tab contains a list of the currently defined signal blocks. Refer to
the next figure.
To remove a signal block definition, select it and click the Remove button.
To duplicate an existing definition, select it and click the Duplicate button. The new
definition differs from the original in that it is given a unique name which is derived
from the name of the original, incremented by one. (If the original did not end in a
number, the name of the duplicate is the name of the original with a “1” suffixed to
it.)
New signal blocks can be added by selecting a signal block type from the New signal
block type list box and clicking the Add… button. Existing signal blocks can be
modified by highlighting the signal block in the Defined signal blocks list and
clicking the Modify… button.