When you're building your PMDO template, you need to navigate through different records and nodes that you have designed. Furthermore, you might want to add additional messages or CCXMLs to your protocol. The Protocol Designer window lets you navigate and manage the messages and separate message parts of your PMDO. The following procedure is the continuation of the procedure in section Designing the Protocol Message Layer.
>> To navigate through your PMDO
| 1. | Perform Steps 1-9 of the first procedure in section Designing the Protocol Message Layer to build your template. |
| 2. | Click the Message Library option to display the Message Library pane. The pane consists the following parts: |
| • | The upper part of this pane displays message protocols. Each message is contained within a corresponding branch. When a new message is added to the PMDO, the system tries to process it according to the already built template messages that exist in the PMDO. If the structure of the new message does not match any of the existing configured messages, the system will ask you whether to create a new branch for that message. If you accept the prompt, it creates a new branch; if you don't, the system will put the message under the Not Processed branch (note that you cannot configure messages under the Not Processed branch). If the structure matches one of the configured messages, the system will insert the new message into the branch that contains the matching message. |
| • | The top toolbar of this pane lets you add new messages to your protocol by clicking the Add button, or edit, rename and delete messages by selecting them from the field below the toolbar that displays them as tree branches, and clicking the Edit, Rename and Delete buttons. |
NOTE You can add not only messages to the PMDO, but also CCXMLs. The system will then translate them back into the original message format. Note that only named nodes will appear in the CCXML.
| • | The Message Details pane contains three tabs: Message, CCXML, and Min CCXML. The Message tab displays the original message received from the instrument, the CCXML tab displays the message as it appears in the XML template you are building, and the Min CCXML tab displays the XML template in a minimized form. This means that it omits the obvious regular XML parts of the message that the system will be able to reconstruct automatically, and displays only template fields which are unique to this template. |
| 3. | Click the Parsing Tree option to display the Parsing Tree pane. The pane consists the following parts: |
| • | The upper part of the Parsing Tree pane displays all the nodes and records which you defined in the form of a collapsible tree. Selecting a branch of that tree will select the corresponding record or node in the body of the window and open a corresponding Configuration or Delimiters pane for that record/node. |
| • | The Parsing Properties pane displays all the configuration details set for the selected node/record as a vertical list. You can modify some of these settings using this pane. |