Specifications

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Programming Group Access
Refer to the Managing the Subscriber Database with ZbaseW on page 55 for details about
each of the fields in the Group Pilot record. Following are notes on specific fields.
The settings of the following fields in the Group Pilot (Status “G”) record will override or
affect those same fields in the group’s individual members’ subscriber records:
Modes Allowed
Voice and Display Limits
Priority
Security Code
Send Empty Message
Modes Allowed:
Group members must have a paging mode as one of their active modes. For each
group member, at least one of the three Modes Allowed slots must be either Paging,
Insurance, or Notify mode. When a group page is done, for each group member the
system will first try to find a Mode Allowed that matches the Group Pilot record’s
mode; if not found, it will try to find one of the other two paging modes. If no
paging modes are found, the pager is not alerted, and a warning message is posted
to the paging terminal’s log file. The member records’ settings for Initial mode and
current mode are ignored in this process.
Voice and Display Limits:
These settings determine the limits of the message that a caller can leave for this
group.
For Voice pagers, the same message is sent to all pagers, regardless of the individual
voice limit settings. For example, if the Group Pilot record has a 30 second voice
message limit, and an individual pager has a 10 second voice limit, if a caller leaves
a 25 second message, this pager and all others will be sent the full 25 seconds.
For Display pagers, the individual member pager’s display limit setting is used as a
maximum. For example, if a 14 digit display message is entered by the caller, and a
particular pager in the group has a 10 digit display limit, it will be sent only the first
10 digits, whereas another pager in the group with a 20 digit display limit will get
the full 14 digits. If a page is truncated, a warning message is posted to the paging
terminal’s log file.
Priority:
The Priority set in the Group Pilot record overrides any setting in the individual
subscriber record. The Priority field in the group members’ records is ignored.
Security code:
Any security code on individual pagers is ignored. If a pager is part of a group, it
will be set off regardless of its individual security code field setting. For important