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How to re-label a device?


Vahn

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I would cleanly separate unique namespaced device names or GUIDS from labels, so that labels could be modified.

 

That's not unreasonable by any measure whatsoever.

 

-V

 

See my Ehh..Nah comment.  Almost any item in the system exposed to the end-user can be renamed without breaking programming. You CANNOT delete a 'device' and rename it the same an it will work (or assign the old device id for that matter) - but renaming things is NOT a concern. In older versions it could casue some confusion as the programming made wouldn't also cnage the name, but the actual function would remain.

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Almost any item in the system exposed to the end-user can be renamed without breaking programming.

 

I did read the "Ehh, Nah" and figured you were trolling.

 

To get back on topic, it's not exposed. If we go back to the top that was why I started the thread. I started the thread asking how to rename something (without calling my dealer.)  From that point, it's just a discussion about if they should, or shouldn't, and a little bit of how they should if they did. All in good fun.

 

-V 

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See my Ehh..Nah comment.  Almost any item in the system exposed to the end-user can be renamed without breaking programming. You CANNOT delete a 'device' and rename it the same an it will work (or assign the old device id for that matter) - but renaming things is NOT a concern. In older versions it could casue some confusion as the programming made wouldn't also cnage the name, but the actual function would remain.

How old?  2.5??

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I did read the "Ehh, Nah" and figured you were trolling.

 

To get back on topic, it's not exposed. If we go back to the top that was why I started the thread. I started the thread asking how to rename something (without calling my dealer.)  From that point, it's just a discussion about if they should, or shouldn't, and a little bit of how they should if they did. All in good fun.

 

-V 

Exposed as in items that the end-user is seeing when using the system, not 'exposed' as in the ability to rename them

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How old?  2.5??

2.5 would be over two years old by now - quite 'dated' in tech terms, but no - I'm thinking well farther back than that, at least pre 2.0 (which is five years ago) - sometimes hard to keep track, but I've been doing this since 2005 (fun note, C4 just had the 10 year release marker 2 days ago) and remember updating systems to 1.2.

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