Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 1—What is the Home Control Assistant?
The Home Control Assistant 11
Object names
As described above, most HCA objects have names. You may use as many characters as you like
to name your objects except for dash, left square bracket or right square bracket. There is no
practical limit to the length of any name.
Printing
HCA provides printing support for details on several elements of your design, using a typical
Windows format. You can select any of the four print commands available from the File menu:
 Print—provides the typical Windows print dialog box, allowing you to determine your print
range, number of copies, and so on.
 Pint Preview—shows you a reduced, full page layout of what you are printing.
 Page Setup—opens a dialog box where you can set the elements you want to print: home
information, devices, programs, groups, controllers, schedules, date book, icon gallery, or the
house and unit code inventory.
 Print Setup—opens a dialog box where you can view and set the name and location of your
printer, paper size and orientation.
The HCA printouts contain information about each element in your design that you have selected
using the Page Setup command. HCA formats and prints the information you chose in a vertical
list, with headings for the different sections. The path for your design is included at the top of each
page, along with the printout page number. Because the printouts can get long, you may want to
specify only those elements that you are interested in seeing each time you print.
Hint: One of the print options is to print labels that can be used by some keypads. Once printed
you can cut them up and use them to label the buttons on your keypads.
Common Windows procedures used in HCA
There are also typical Windows procedures that are frequently referenced in HCA procedures. We
have gathered a few of them here, for your reference in case you are not familiar with them.
Right click for popup menu
Most objects in HCA have properties attached to them. You can generally get to the properties for
the object by using the mouse, and right clicking on the object. To do this:
1. Move the mouse pointer to or over the object in question.
2. Click the
right mouse button. (Unless you’re using a mouse device set up for a left-hander, in
which case, you would click the left mouse button.) This is the button that you don’t normally
use.
A popup menu appears.
3. With the mouse, move the pointer down the popup menu until you get to the menu command
you want, and click the
left (normal) mouse button.
In the case of properties, the properties dialog box opens.
Drag and place
In HCA there are several things—icons on a display, entries on the visual scheduler—that you may
want to move from one place to another. This is very easy to do with the typical Windows drag
method.
To drag an icon to another location:
Move the mouse pointer to or over the object in question.