How to: Design a Header Pane on the Display Station (KDS Header Profile)
The KDS Header Profile defines the information you want to display in the header of the display station.
To create a header profile
- Go to the KDS Header Profiles. Here you define the profile id and a description.
- When the profile has been created, you click the KDS Header Pane Designer action.
In the KDS Header Pane Designer you create lines and columns. You click on Manage in the action bar an then New Header Pane Line to create a new line. Note the KDS Header Pane Columns FastTab in the bottom part of the window.
On the KDS Header Pane Columns FastTab you define what each column in the line stands for. You click on New Header Pane Column in the action bar to create a new column. The configurable fields are:
- Column Number: The number of the column.
- Column Type: Defines what to display in the column. The options are Time, Page No., Station Name, Text, APT(D), APT(H) and Aggregate Groups. APT(D) means average production time for the day and APT(H) means average production time for last hour. If Aggregate Groups is choosen then the groups that are in the aggregate profile assigned to the display station will appear in the column.
- Caption: A text that displays in the column if the Column Type is Caption. If the Column Type is APT(D) or APT(H) then this Caption field is also editable and appear infront of the time.
- Column Alignment: The alignment of the text in the column. The options are: Center, Left and Right.
- Text Color: Choose the text color here. The default value (-1).
- Back Color: Choose the background color here. The default value (-1).
- Font Style: Choose the font style for the column. The options are regular, bold, italic, strikeout and underline. The default is regular.
Changing the color values or the font style will make the field different from the rest of the line.
The header profile is assigned to a visual profile and the size of the pane is also set there.