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Procedures are user-generated lists of graphics and/or image products, which enable you to define, customize, and save a sequence of products. Procedures provide a convenient way to display commonly used products or products that are needed for a certain weather scenario. If, for example, you display 24 frames of IR satellite imagery overlaid with METAR plots, you can save for future use this grouping of products (a "bundle"), along with other bundles, as a Procedure.

Bundles contain not only all the products you overlaid onto the display, but also the display parameters, such as frame count, looping speed, color tables, graphics control settings, etc. You can then label your Procedure to reflect its contents or with your own name. This allows you to save your color, line width, and line style preferences. When you display the bundle, your preferences are already applied.

Starting in Build 5.1.1, Procedures have been expanded to be more flexible.  When you use the Points or Baselines tools to generate model soundings, cross-sections, time series, etc., and save these bundles in a Procedure for future use, you have the choice to display the data with the original position of the point or baseline that you used when you set up the bundle, or you can use the current position, which is likely in a different location than it was when you set up the bundle.  You can also alter the model grid, radar, or point/baseline at load time.

From the File button in the Menu Bar, the Procedures cascading menu can be opened, as illustrated in Exhibit 2.5-1.

The New, Open, and Delete Menu options each activate dialog boxes needed to open, build, edit, save, name, and delete Procedures. Section 2.5.1 describes these dialog boxes.

The Copy Display to Procedure(s) option copies the current bundle into any open Procedure.

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