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4.4.1 Control Bar Editing Commands

Cut

This menu button deletes a text selection. You can also cut text by pressing and holding Mouse Button 3 in the Editing Window. This brings up a pop-up menu containing the Cut option.

Copy

A menu button that reproduces a text selection. You can also copy text by pressing and holding Mouse Button 3 in the Editing Window. This brings up a pop-up menu containing the Copy option.

Paste

This menu button places copied text at the cursor location. You can also Paste text by pressing and holding Mouse Button 3 in the Editing Window. This brings up a pop-up menu containing the Paste option.

Fill

This menu button removes hard carriage returns from selected text.

Edit Header

This menu button automatically opens the AWIPS Header Block Dialog Box, which contains text product header information. The Header Block accommodates both WMO and AFOS IDs. Refer to Exhibit 4.4.1-1.

Header Block Fields

The upper portion of the Header Block contains the WMO ID fields, while the lower section has the AFOS ID fields.

• TTAAii: This field contains the WMO Data Type and Area Indicators. Refer to Section 4.2.6 WMO Text Product Search Dialog Box for more information.

• CCCC: This field contains the International Location Indicator. Refer to Section 4.2.6 WMO Text Product Search Dialog Box, for more information.

• BBB: The three-character "BBB" defines the type of message or the Indicator Group. Most messages will be sent with this field set to "NOR" (normal), which is the default. Other Indicator Groups include Delayed, Correction, Amendment, and Segmented, and are described below:

- RRx: This is the Delayed Indicator Group which is used to transmit a collection of one or more weather reports which are normally contained in the initial bulletin, but which were received after the initial bulletin has been transmitted.

- CCx: This is the Correction Indicator Group which is used to transmit a bulletin containing corrections to a previously transmitted bulletin.

- AAx: This is the Amendment Indicator Group which is used to transmit a bulletin containing amendments to processed information that had been previously transmitted in an earlier bulletin.

- Pxx: This is the Segment Number Indicator Group. This is not yet implemented.

For more information on the Indicator Group "BBB," refer to http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/bbb.html

• WSFO ID (optional): This field contains the AFOS site ID of the main node of the State Distribution Circuit (SDC) to which the office originating the message belongs. This field is automatically filled in with the SDC node of your local site.

• Product Category: Products are identified by a three character AFOS PIL (e.g., TOR for tornado). A list of categories can be viewed from the Text Browser menu by clicking on the help button adjacent to the category selector.

• Product Designator: This field contains the AFOS ID of the site the message applies to, or a regional ID for messages that apply to a larger region (such as UT for Utah). Usually this field is set to your local site, but occasionally a site issues a message for another site.

For example, Denver (DEN) can issue a message that applies to Colorado Springs (COS), in which case the product designator is COS. A list of AFOS IDs can be viewed from the Text Browser menu by clicking on the help button adjacent to the node selector.

• Addressee: This field defines the site(s) to which you want a text product or message sent. In this field you have a choice of three buttons: 000, DEF, and ALL. If you want the product to be stored in the text database, but don't want it to be distributed, press the 000 button. Use the DEF address to send products to a predefined group of sites (which usually includes neighboring sites). Refer to the AWIPS Systems Manager Manual for information on setting up your local "DEF." Use the ALL address to send products to all sites.

• Enter: A menu button that acknowledges the Header Block information, closes the Header Block Dialog Box, and lets you edit the text product.

• Cancel: This menu button closes the header block and Text Editor.

This menu button stores the product that you are currently editing in the text database, but continues the edit session. The product is not transmitted outside your local site.

Send

This menu button end the editing process, stores the text product in the text database, and sends it to the communications processor for transmission.

Cancel

This menu button ends the editing session without saving any changes.

Attach

This menu button, activated when you are editing an administrative text message, opens a dialog box in which you can enter a file path name of an attachment to add to your message.

Refer to Section 4.6 Administrative Message Handling System for further information.

INS/OVR (Insert/Overstrike)

A pull-down menu that contains the Insert Mode and the Overstrike Mode Radio Buttons.

The choice you make appears either as "INS" or "OVR" to identify the current editing mode you are using. You can also use the "Insert" Accelerator Key to toggle between the two different modes.

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