Win97 Web Import and talk groups text

[rsovitzky]

I just want to make sure I am not missing something. When I import a system (like a County), the talk group alpha tags have no relationship to the 'agency' that uses it. Like a city's fire department has 6 talk group ids. They might be DISPATCH, AREA 1, etc. When I get them into Win97, if I see a DISPATCH entry, I have no idea what city it belongs to. Do I have that right?

Rick

 

[scans]

The It should have set up the bank text tag for whatever county you are monitoring. This tag is displayed on the top and the ID displayed on the bottom. So it would look something like this:

(Frequency)->868.7750
(bank tag)--->James City County
(ID tag)------>Fire Dispatch

 

[rsovitzky]

But I cannot afford to use up a whole bank (I have ten) for each city/agency. For two counties, it would take a couple hundred banks.

I did not mention that I am talking about Motorola Type II systems.

Rick

 

[scanjunkie]

Make the frequency text tag the system name and make the TG ID text tags the agency. It will look exactly like "scans" showed in his post. You have 150 TG ID's per bank to use. You don't have to use a separate bank for each agency.

 

[rsovitzky]

You must mean I must edit the XML from the Web Import to get the Talk Group descriptions into the Talk Group ID descriptions, is that it? I cannot just let Win97 import - I must modify it, right? The channel text seems to be out of the picture, since there is no option to have Win97 put anything real helpful there. The text I want, is between the channel stuff and the TG ID stuff in the hierarchy but I see no option to choose that for the alpha tag.

Or am i just dumb here?

Rick

Edited later: Ah, I looked at the XML and what I want (sort of) if the group to go into the TGID Alpha, not the DESC. That's not perfect though either, because much of the group text is taken up with 'City of...', etc.

Too bad the database has that extra leading text. Instead of 'City of Brookfield', it would be nice to have 'Brookfield, City of'. The 16 chars would get the important stuff.

What might be nicer still, would be allowing the user to concatenate the group and desc. I guess I will have to forego the handy import and leave my custom alpha tags in place.

Rick

 

[DonS]

Edited later: Ah, I looked at the XML and what I want (sort of) if the group to go into the TGID Alpha, not the DESC. That's not perfect though either, because much of the group text is taken up with 'City of...', etc.

Too bad the database has that extra leading text. Instead of 'City of Brookfield', it would be nice to have 'Brookfield, City of'. The 16 chars would get the important stuff.

What might be nicer still, would be allowing the user to concatenate the group and desc. I guess I will have to forego the handy import and leave my custom alpha tags in place.

Just the "group" attribute probably wouldn't be very useful. Using your example, you'd see only "Brookfield" for everything: fire, police, parks, etc.

Concatenating them automatically probably won't work, either. If the DB had "Brookfield" for the group name and "DISPATCH" for the description, you'd get "Brookfield DISPA".

One thing you might consider: save the retrieved XML to a file and edit it. You could do search/replace on the "description", inserting some descriptive text before the DB's description. Save that new version of the XML, then read it into Win97 (via the same Web Import dialog). This might be easier than manually editing each TG tag.

 

[rsovitzky]

OK Don. I think that's what I'll try. See how fancy I can get with find/replace Thanks

Just the "group" attribute probably wouldn't be very useful. Using your example, you'd see only "Brookfield" for everything: fire, police, parks, etc.

Concatenating them automatically probably won't work, either. If the DB had "Brookfield" for the group name and "DISPATCH" for the description, you'd get "Brookfield DISPA".

One thing you might consider: save the retrieved XML to a file and edit it. You could do search/replace on the "description", inserting some descriptive text before the DB's description. Save that new version of the XML, then read it into Win97 (via the same Web Import dialog). This might be easier than manually editing each TG tag.