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To define an Alias, please start by invoking the Multi-terminal macro from the a - Terminals Resource category in the Symbol Insert Tool.

 

The following prompt is then displayed at the command line:

 

Select function Select/Alias/Insert/<eXit>: A

 

Enter A for Alias.

 

The next prompt will be the following:

 

Select alias function View/deFine/Delete/<eXit>:

 

With the letters V, F, D, and X, you can start the four following functions:

 

 

Please note that when using German or Swedish language setting, other letters will be used for the same purposes.

 

A good start may be to View the current settings, so that you know where to start and avoid multiple definitions of the same thing.

 

Thereafter, when you are sure of what you should do, you start defining the new Alias:

 

Select alias function View/deFine/Delete/<eXit>: F

 

1.  My own multi-terminal definition no. 1

2.  My own multi-terminal definition no. 2

 

Select 1 - 2: 1

Plant: <RETURN>

Location: <RETURN>

Terminal group name: -X5

Invisible item designation (Y/<N>): N

 

Select alias function View/deFine/Delete/<eXit>: <RETURN>

 

The input made by the user is coloured red above.

 

When you select F for deFine, a list of the currently available multi-terminal definitions is presented. In the example above, there are two such definitions.

 

You select one of them by entering the associated number. In the example above, that is 1.

 

Thereafter you enter the Function/plant, Location, and Reduced terminal group name that you want the selected multi-terminal definition to be used for. Please note that you can leave Function/plant and/or Location empty, if you want them to be empty in the multi-terminal symbols, as in the example presented above.

 

Finally, you are asked if invisible item designations should be used for the Alias in question. You can answer that by Yes or No. If you answer Yes, the terminal group name even of the first terminal in a group will be invisible.

 

That completes the Alias definition and you can exit with X or simply by pressing the <RETURN> key.