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your Baseline. You can configure your entire system and save it to the Baseline all at once, or you can

move from block to block, saving each block to the Baseline as you go. See Customizing the Baseline

Preset for procedural details.

BEST PRACTICE: Name your presets as soon as you create them. This helps alleviate confusion later.

Note that all preset names must be unique.

BEST PRACTICE: When creating presets, a good approach is to think through and configure blocks for

the entire preset, test the functionality, and then select all the relevant blocks and drag them to the pre-

set.

BEST PRACTICE: Try to avoid including the same blocks in different types of presets (with the excep-

tion of the Baseline, of course, as it contains every block in the system. Including the same block in dif-

ferent types of presets makes management of the presets and the block parameters values much more

difficult. It's okay to use different preset types as long as they are independent from one another (again,

the Baseline is an exception).

BEST PRACTICE: Avoid asserting the Baseline unless you are using only Command presets. Asserting

the Baseline over a Toggle or Selector preset creates a dilemma. To then place the Toggle or Selector

above the Baseline (in the Active Presets list

), you would have to deactivate and then re-activate it. In

this scenario, the best way to return to the Baseline is to deactivate the Toggle and Selector presets.

BEST PRACTICE: Because a preset cannot change a control link's priority, it is very important to confirm

that your control links are prioritized correctly for the behavior that you want. It is always a good idea

to double-check the control link priority list before, during, or after your creation of presets. Of course,

testing your presets also helps you determine if your links are working according to plan when the pre-

sets are activated.

BEST PRACTICE: Avoid performing a ScratchPad reset when the preset is active.

WARNING! When you click Save Baseline in the Processing Workspace toolbar, all blocks in your Proc-

essing Map are saved to the Baseline with their current parameter values. If you only want to save the

values for one or a subset of blocks, do not click Save Baseline! You should instead update only those

specific blocks in the Baseline. For details, see Updating the Baseline Preset in the Halogen Help Sys-

tem.

A dynamic list of active presets maintained by the system that changes as presets are asserted, activated, and deac-

tivated. The presets are listed in priority order. When a preset is asserted or activated, it goes to the top of the list

and its parameter values overlay the current working values for the corresponding system parameters. When a pre-

set is deactivated it is removed from the list.

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