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Team Services Dynamic non-cryptic text abbreviations for small screens

Overview

Devices come with a variety of screen sizes offering large display areas on stationary or truck mount devices and smaller display areas on smaller hand held mobile devices. With GSW Team Services the text is automatically adjusted based on the number of columns and rows defined with the "Mode Con" command in your logon script. If there are not enough columns to display the complete Team Service text then intelligent abbreviations are used so you can view the essential information in the normal font for your application

This works well with the small hand held mobile device displays as well as the larger truck mount displays. No magnifying glass is required to read the text, nor do you have to be a detective to decipher the meaning of the abbreviations.

The three most used Team Services screens are:

• Team Services Main Menu(Tasks)
• Team Services "Accept Mode" display
• Team Services "Select Session" menu

Below is an example of the full text of the Team Services tasks menu on the left and the abbreviated text on the right. In order to maximize the readability alternate abbreviations are used based on the number of columns and rows defined

Team Services Main Menu		Abbreviated Team Services Tasks
	Set the number of columns and rows for your application and GSW Team Services will display all the text or abbreviate it based on your configuration.
Team Services Tasks Menu Abbreviations

Note that "Accept" is abbreviated "Acc", and "transfer" uses the common abbreviation "xfer" while the words "session", "mode" and "suspended" are completely omitted.

Below is an example of the Team Services Accept Transfer mode display. The Accept modes for the other operations are similar. The unabbreviated version is on the left and the abbreviated version is on the right.

Accept Transfer Mode Display		Abbreviated Accept Transfer Mode Display
	An unabbreviated "Waiting for transfer" dialog is shown on the left On the right is simply the session id (s5) and "Waiting..."
Team Services Accept Mode Abbreviations

Note that the text "My session id is" and "for transfer" is omitted yet the essential session id (s5) is presented as well as the "Waiting..." text providing a reminder to the user.

The TS Select Session display is shown below.

There are a few items to note.

• If more than one page is required to display all the available sessions then the function key F2 is used to display the next page. F1 navigates to the previous page. This is true for both the abbreviated and unabbreviated lists.
• Each page has a "Page x of y" count display, where x is the page you are viewing and y is the total number of pages
• On each page the line numbers corresponding to the session id are zero based. Below on page 1, line 0 corresponds to session if s0. On page 2, line 0 corresponds to session id (s5).

Accept Transfer Mode Display	Abbreviated Select Session Display
58: Unabbreviated Select Session	59: Abbreviated Select Session Page 1 of 2	59: Abbreviated Select Session Page 12of 2
Team Services Select Session Display