Alpha Tags on downloads

[HogDriver]

It has probably been addressed already but my question is; If you go through the trouble of putting alpha tags in the database, why are they not in the downloads for the scanner. The info in the alpha tags are right on but of course all you get in the download is the text from the description.

 

[Jay911]

It depends what program you are using to download with. Even then, all the programs I've used have had a setting to decide whether to use the alias text (alpha tags) or desc.

 

[lowboy654]

I use Win95,96,97 and 500 and they all have the option to use Alpa Tag's when doing a web import.if you have one of these it is there.

 

[loumaag]

It has probably been addressed already but my question is; If you go through the trouble of putting alpha tags in the database, why are they not in the downloads for the scanner. The info in the alpha tags are right on but of course all you get in the download is the text from the description.

The "Alpha Tags" are provided in the web service. It is up to your software vendor to take advantage of them.

 

[MFD4305]

One That Works

From personal experience: FreeScan allows the user to choose which one of several fields in a download from RR Database to use as the alpha tag; i.e. what text shows up on the scanner's display.

{full disclosure - I have no interest or involvement in this software; I'm only a satisfied user.}

 

[Duster]

I use Win95,96,97 and 500 and they all have the option to use Alpa Tag's when doing a web import.if you have one of these it is there.

I also use Win 97. It does that for Trunked systems, but not for conventional. Conventional systems don't give you a choice...it uses the first how-ever-many characters of the description field. Just tested it to confirm that.

I'm running Win 97 version 1.13. Is there a newer version?

EDIT: I found it myself. Version 1.21 is out, and according to the revision log they added the ability to choose for conventional channels a couple revisions ago. Never mind...

 

[HogDriver]

Yea, it doesn't work with conventional. Don't know why it would be different

 

[HogDriver]

Are there plans to include the "Display" Attributes for conventional frequencies???

 

[Jay911]

Are there plans to include the "Display" Attributes for conventional frequencies???

In what?

 

[Duster]

Yea, it doesn't work with conventional. Don't know why it would be different

I downloaded the new version of Win97. It DOES now give you the choice on conventional frequencies.

 

[HogDriver]

Cool...I downloaded win96 and it works now...thanks