Specifications

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Special Tab
Halt Service for a Subscriber
The Halt Service button provides an easy way to quickly turn off a subscriber’s pager,
without going into Edit/Subscribers.
The intended user of this feature is someone who does not usually deal with ZbaseW and
might be confused or alarmed by the “busy” Edit/Subscribers screen. Halt Service lets
them turn off a pager in a simple way. For instance, an accounting person who is not
normally involved in paging operations might need to turn off a few subscribers once a
month.
♦ Disabling a subscriber using Halt Service:
1. Select the Halt Service button on the Special tab.
2. Enter the ID of the pager to be stopped. Type in the ID just as you would in Edit/
Subscribers (usually the actual phone number, with or without the dash).
3. If you wish, enter a comment to add to the subscriber record.
4. Click on the Halt button to disable the subscriber.
The system then updates the database for this record, turning off this subscriber’s pager. It
then reminds you that you still need to do Comm Update to make the changes active on the
paging terminal.
Halt Service does one pager subscriber at a time. If you have several pagers to turn off,
you can do Halt Service for each one, then do Comm Update.
The system changes the status of the record to I, thus invalidating the subscriber. It is the
same as going into Edit/Subscribers, going to the subscriber’s record, going to the Status
field, and typing in a status of I. In fact, this is the way most ZbaseW operators would turn
off a subscriber record, since they are used to using Edit/Subscribers to make any changes.