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Snapshot Bank

Snapshots allow you to save or store settings of selected controls in your design, and to recall the settings for different events or purposes. Snapshot Banks are where you select, or specify, the controls to be able to save their settings.

The following information is contained in this topic:

• Global Snapshot Bank
• User-Defined Snapshot Bank
• Adding User-defined Snapshot Banks
• Adding Controls to Snapshot Banks

The Snapshot hierarchy:

• Snapshot Bank can be Global and/or user-defined
  • Snapshot Controller Component - Global and/or user-defined. Can be dragged into the Schematic and configured.
    • Snapshot - Each Snapshot Controller component can have up to 24 different Snapshots of the controls contained in the Snapshot Bank.
  • Controls and Components - User-defined Snapshot Banks contain controls and/or components you add to the Snapshot Bank. When you add individual controls, the Component can be expanded to reveal the individual controls.

Global Snapshot Bank

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The Global Snapshot Bank is in the Snapshot pane by default, and cannot be deleted. It consists of the Global Snapshot Bank and the Global Snapshot Controller component. The Global Snapshot Bank contains all the controls in your design; you cannot add controls or components to the Global Snapshot Bank.

Controls

There are no controls for the Snapshot Banks. Refer to the Snapshot Controller topic.

Properties

The Global Snapshot Bank/ Controller Properties can be set by selecting either the Global Snapshot Bank in the Snapshots pane, or the Snapshot Controller Global in the Schematic.

Control Pins

There are no Control Pins for the Snapshot Banks. Refer to the Snapshot Controller topic.

User-defined Snapshot Banks

The user-defined Snapshot Bank allows you to group the controls of one or more components, the settings of which can be saved in up to 24 different sets of values for each Snapshot Bank. These sets of values, or Snapshots, can be retrieved, when needed, to set all the controls in the Snapshot Bank to the values saved in a Snapshot.

A Snapshot Bank consists of a Snapshot Controller, and all the controls and components you add to it.

Adding User-defined Snapshot Banks

1. In the left-side pane click the Snapshots accordion bar.
2. Click the in the Snapshot accordion bar.
3. Select Create a new Snapshot Bank. The new Snapshot Bank is created with the default name of Snapshot 1. You can rename the Snapshot Bank in the Properties.

OR

1. Select one or more components or controls from components.
2. Click the in the Snapshots pane.
3. Select Create a new Snapshot Bank from Selection. The new Snapshot Bank is created with the default name, and the selected components/controls added to the bank.

Controls

There are no control s for the Snapshot Banks. Refer to the Snapshot Controller topic.

Properties

Adding Controls to Snapshot Banks

Tip: After you have added components and/or controls to a Snapshot Bank, you can select either the control/component in the Snapshots pane, or the control in its control panel, and press Ctrl+F to open Context Finder and locate its counterpart.

Note: Only adjustable controls, and controls with values can be added to a Snapshot. You cannot, for example, add a meter or trigger type control to a Snapshot.

Generally speaking, all controls added to a Snapshot Bank are in all the Snapshots in that Bank. If a control's value is not in a Snapshot because the Snapshot was saved before the control was added to the Snapshot Bank, the control goes to its default value when the Snapshot is loaded.

There are two different ways to add controls to the Snapshot Bank.

• Add the entire component:

  Note: The advantage of placing an entire component in a Snapshot Bank is that when you alter the Properties of the component, the Snapshot Bank responds to the changes. For example, if you increase the Count of a control, you now have the increased Count of that control in the Snapshot Bank. If you select all of the controls (see below) from the Control Panel of a component, and drag them into the Snapshot Bank, then increase the Count of a control, the new Count does not update the Snapshot Bank.

  Note: When you add a component to a Snapshot Bank, the controls in that component are not visibly listed under the component.

  Note: If you have a single control in a Snapshot Bank, then drag the entire component, from which the control came, into the Snapshot Bank, Q-SYS deletes the individual control, but includes the control with the whole component.

  1. Select the component, in the Schematic, containing the controls you want to add.
  2. Drag the entire component into the Snapshot Bank. As the cursor passes over the Snapshot Bank, the Bank is highlighted, and a plus sign (+) displays beside the cursor.
  3. After the component has been placed in the Snapshot Bank, an icon displays in the list under the Snapshot Bank with the name of the component (for example, Delay (All Controls)).
  4. All of the adjustable controls are now "in" the Snapshot Bank.
• Add controls from the Control Panel:

  Note: The advantage of placing individual controls into a Snapshot Bank is that when you Load the Snapshot, only those controls are repositioned. Any other controls that have been manually positioned, or positioned by another Snapshot do not change. If all the controls are in a Snapshot Bank, when you Load one of the Snapshots, all the controls are positioned as they were Saved in that Snapshot.

  Note: When you add controls (by dragging from the Control Panel) to a Snapshot Bank, the controls are visibly listed under the component in the Snapshot Bank.

  1. Double-click the component, in the Schematic, containing the controls you want to add. The Control Panel displays.
  2. Press Ctrl+A to select everything, hold the Ctrl button and click multiple controls, or select one control, in the Control Panel. Objects that you select that are not adjustable controls, are not saved in the Snapshot Bank.
  3. Drag the selected controls (all together) into the Snapshot Bank. As the cursor passes over the Snapshot Bank name, in the Snapshots pane, the Snapshot Bank is highlighted, and a plus sign (+) and the message Add selected controls and components to bank display beside the cursor.
  4. After the controls have been placed in the Snapshot Bank, an expandable icon displays in the list under the Snapshot Bank with the name of the component (for example, Delay).
  5. Click the "twistie" to the left of the icon to expand it or collapse it. When expanded, a list of all the controls, from that component, in the Snapshot Bank, displays.

Control Pins

There are no Control Pins for the Snapshot Banks. Refer to the Snapshot Controller topic.