Blocks
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The Blocks node displays all the blocks currently configured in the system. To change or add new blocks modify the block definition files.
When you expand a particular block you can see three folders, Items, Decoders, and Monitors. The Items folder displays all the data items this block is comprised of. The picture below shows the GSEOS Explorer with the Block AA1 expanded and the items folder selected.

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The Block node has three child nodes: Decoders, Items, Monitors. The Decoders folder lists all decoders that are installed on this block, that is all decoders that get processed upon arrival of this block. The Items node lists all the items defined for this block, and the Monitors node lists all the Monitors installed on this block, similar to the Decoders node. In the following example you can see that the decoder 'Command Decoder' is installed on the CmdString block. The decoder node then lists all the blocks generated by the decoder. The block nodes here have the same properties as the block nodes in the main Blocks folder. That is you can recurse through the decoder hierarchy using the GSEOS Explorer getting a quick overview of the system block and decoder topology. The Decoder subnode of a block node has the same properties as the main Decoder folder, the same is true for the Monitors node. The Monitors subnode of a block node lets you determine what monitors are installed on that particular block. For more details on the Decoder node please refer to GSEOS Explorer/Decoders, for more details on Monitors please refer to GSEOS Explorer/Monitors.

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