User Guide

Setting Up a New MPM or BDS System
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Include Warnings, Memory Full and Inactive - Select these check boxes to contact and
require acknowledgement when these events occur and Sequential/Ack is selected. If not
selected, event notice is sent only once and no acknowledgement is required.
When finished, click Save or click the next (Contact List) tab.
14.7.1. Using a Cell Phone for Text Messaging
You may use a cell phone to receive text messages. Type your provider's TAP telephone
number in the Access Telephone Number field and type your cell phone number in the Pager
PIN Number field. You can find cell phone provider TAP telephone numbers at
www.notepager.com/tap-phone-numbers.htm. Not all cell phone providers offer this text
messaging service. The Email or Pager fields can also send text messages to a cell phone.
14.8. System Setup: Contact List
String Status > Setup|System|Contact List
The Contact List dialog box selects persons to be contacted during an alarm reporting event,
in addition to those listed on the Customer and Location dialog boxes.
Figure 31. System Setup - Contact List
Contact List - Each Contact List (group) name contains a group of persons to contact. To
create a new Contact List name, click New in the left Contact List panel. The Contact List
Name dialog box appears. At List Name, type a name, then click OK.
Delete (left panel) - To remove a contact list (group) name from the list, click a name from
the drop-down Contact List and click Delete. This permanently deletes the contact list.
Delete (right panel) - To remove a person's name from the list of potential contacts, click a
name on the right Contacts list and click Delete. This permanently deletes the contact.
Remove Contact - To remove a person's name from the group Contact List, click the
person's name to highlight it, then click Remove Contact.
Sort Names - To move a person's name up or down the list to change call priority, click and
drag the number before the name up or down the list onto another number.