Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 1—What is the Home Control Assistant?
10 The Home Control Assistant
I n addition to this drag and drop method, you can also choose which displays an icon for an object
appears by opening its properties dialog and making changes on the Display tab.
What doesn’t appear in design pane
Most elements of your design, devices, programs, groups, schedules, and schedule entries, are
listed in the design pane.
In addition to these, other elements of your design, date book items – from the date book, export
specifications, IR keypads, log filters and other items are not listed in the design pane.
The conventions used in this guide
The following are the common protocols used in this Guide.
Convention Definition
Arial font
Text in this font indicates either entries that you type
into HCA, or responses or messages from the HCA
system for you to read.
HCA
An abbreviation for the Home Control Assistant.
Hint
A hint is a special trick, a neat way of doing
something, or a reminder of other HCA operations.
web tip
A web tip points you to the Home Control Assistant
web location for more information on a particular
subject.
In this guide, we assume that you are familiar with the use of Windows, and the most common
Windows conventions, such as click, drag and drop, double-click, right mouse click, use of the
browse function, directories, and files. However, some of these common Windows conventions
most often used in HCA are documented in the section following.
For instance, if a procedure says click, we mean to use the mouse button you most often use,
generally the left. If you need to right-click an item, we’ll specify that.
Procedures and operations common to HCA
There are several common tasks that occur in multiple places in HCA, and that you may find
yourself completing in different wizards, or for the various properties dialog boxes. Rather than
repeating them or explaining them each time they are used, we have placed them here to save your
time.
Selecting items for use in a particular area
This may be used to place icons for a device, group, controller, or program on a display, to place
members in a group, and in several other wizards. Regardless of the specific wizard or dialog box,
there will be two boxes, separated by two arrow buttons.
You click a listed item in the left box, and then click the right arrow
 pointing to the right box,
and the item moves into that box. In some cases you can move one, some, or all of the items to the
right column. If you find that you have mistakenly moved something to the right box, you can
move it back. Select the item from the right box, and click the left arrow
 to return it to the left
column.