User's Manual

D-32 Customizing the DecisioNet System
Status Tag Manager
The DecisioNet Status Tag Manager is designed to report the status of
the DecisioNet System or any other retail store system by displaying
system status information on a group of SmarTalker tags. Status tags
may be placed strategically within the retail establishment so that key
personnel are aware when system maintenance is necessary. Status
tags must be within communication range of the DecisioNet System.
The Status Tag Manager also permits paging functions to be
accomplished within the store environment.
Up to one hundred SmarTalkers may be configured to display system
status information, but must not be allocated in the EPL Table. An
application may register a system problem with the Status Tag
Manager by writing status information to a plain ASCII text file
(defined in status.cfg). The Status Tag Manager responds by
updating the appropriate status tags. When the Status Tag Manager is
used with the Log Monitor, alerts may be sent to store personnel when
such a problem occurs.
The Status Tag Manager supports three modes of operation:
immediate, scheduled, and auto. Each status tag must be configured to
operate in one of these modes.
Immediate Mode (I):
A status tag displays messages upon demand. No scheduling or
automatic resetting of the status tag is performed. The SmarTalker’s
button may be used to reset the status tag to the prior state.
Scheduled Mode (S):
A status tag displays messages upon demand. The SmarTalker
displays the message for a configurable period of time and then
displays a default message when the specified time expires. The default
message is not sent to the status tag until the time expires. The
SmarTalker’s button may be pressed to reset the status tag to the
default message.