Hi there,

 

How do you guys manange your Press/Visibility Digital Join ? Until now, I simply use the Automatic assigment but I find it can get quite messy. 

 

Thanks,

 

 

Definitely don't use automatic assignment.  Organize your joins in logical groups and start each group at a nice round number with some space for expansion.  Don't be afraid to leave stretches of unused joins.  You'll thank yourself later when you need to add one more source or one more transport control.

Definitely agree with Jeremy and Eric...

 

I also find it helpful to assign joins so that the last digit matches what I'm using it for. So, for my source and destination signals, src1 might be at join 401, and dst1 might be at 501. Their serial joins for button labels match those joins. If I need to also "enable" the buttons (maybe to show whether the source is available or not), I'll often use 451 and 551 as the starting joins for that (rather than using up 2 more blocks of 100 joins). This helps me be able to quickly confirm that things look right in my interface when I'm assigning joins there. A button that I'm using for src28 should have joins 428 digital, 428 serial, and maybe 478 for enable. Join 400 would be the src0 button (none/clear/off).

 

This also helps when you're running all those same signals through crosspoints, or an EISC, so it's easier to verify that things are where they should be. Using the same join numbers there isn't mandatory, but I find it helpful. For projects where it's possible, I try to keep the joins packed in under 1000, so they play nicely with the limitations of crosspoints. Or, at least the signals I plan to run through the crosspoints will be under join 1000. 

 

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Josh Winn
The LiquidPixel Group