code plug management: contact list import/export...
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Code Plug Management:
Contact List Import/Export
Version 1.0, Dec 16, 2015
Background This presentation will show how to update
and maintain contact lists in the CS750
The following applications will be employed
Connect Systems CPS v.4.00
Microsoft Excell 2010 (or later)
Requirements Assumptions:
You have: Connect Systems CPS v.4.00
You Have: Microsoft Excel 2010 (or later)
You have an existing CS-750 Code Plug
Can be from a friend’s radio
Can be from a “virgin” radio
Can be downloaded from the net
You have a CS-750 programming cable
Export from Radio (1) Open the code plug in Connect Systems
CPS and export the current contact list as
described in the following 2 slides:
From the “Tools” tab on the CPS control
bar, in the “Tools” drop down menu, Click
“Export Digital Contact”.
Export from Radio (2) Select an appropriate location and
filename and save the file:
Here I have chosen the file name:
“Contacts_20151214” in a directory
called “Code Plugs_CX750”. Yours can
be different, just remember the name
and location.
Click “Save”, wait a bit for the operation
To complete at which time you should
see the pop-up below:
Export from Radio (3) Navigate to the file you just saved and
open it in Excel.
Once you open the exported file, you will see
5 columns, A through E with titles: No, Call
Alias, Call Type, Call ID and Receive Tone,
as shown here (your contact list will be
different).
Updating Contacts (1) Select the first 5 columns and run “Auto Fit
Column Width”
Select all columns and click “Auto Fit
Column Width” This makes things a bit
easier to keep track of and work with.
Updating Contacts (2) Select the column labeled “Call Type” (C)
and do an A-Z Sort as shown:
1. Select column “C”,
“Call Type” (click at the top of the col).
2. In the “Sort and Filter”
dropdown, Select “Sort A-Z”
3. A “Warning Dialog” will
pop-up. Select “Expand the
Selection” then Click “Sort”.
Note: This step
guarantees that
the group calls will
be together at the
top so that you
won’t delete any
intermingled ones
in the next step.
Updating Contacts (3) Delete all of the “Private Calls” as
described here. Save the file.
1. Select the first 5 cells of the first row
of the “Private Call” group.
2. Then use “Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow”
to select the entire block of Private
Call rows as shown.
3. Hit “Delete” to remove the existing
Private Calls from the contact list
4. You should now have a
spreadsheet with only the “Group
Calls” as shown here to the right
5. Save this file
Updating Contacts (4) From here it is a simple matter of copying
in a new, updated “Private Call” list to
replace the one you just took out.
The new list can come from:
Another code plug (PAPA for example)
Another radio
DMR MARC Website (some work needed)
http://www.foxhollow.ca/DMR/Contacts/
Updating Contacts (5) In this case we’ll grab a contact list from:
http://www.foxhollow.ca/DMR/Contacts/
Go to the link above. Select the CS-750
page, open the file you are interested in.
We’ll pick the world-wide file near the
bottom of the page.
This is a Comma Separated Value (CSV)
text file that must be imported into Excel to
be used with the file we created earlier.
Updating Contacts (9) The file from the “foxhollow” site looks as
below. You need to copy this data into a
new Excel spreadsheet as described next.
1. Click “Ctrl+A” to
select all the
text (as shown)
2. Click “Ctrl+C”
to copy the text
for the next
step (see next
page)
Updating Contacts (6) Select the data in this file (in it’s entirety)
by typing “Ctrl A” (Select All), Copy this
data using “Ctrl C” or “Copy” from the
menu
Open a new Excel file or new tab on the
sheet you just saved.
Click on the cell in the upper left corner to
select the cell and copy the data into the
spreadsheet using “Paste” or “Shift+Insert”
Now you have the CSV data in Excel.
Convert the text to columns as shown:
Updating Contacts (7)
1. Select the “Data” tab
2. Select “Text to Columns”
3. Select “Delimited”, click “Next”
4. Uncheck all but “Comma”
5. Click “Finish”
Your result should look like below left (I would now do Auto Fit Columns again)
Updating Contacts (8)
1. Select the “Home” tab
2. Select the first 5 columns (A-E)
3. Select the “Format” dropdown
4. Click “AutoFit Column Width”
5. You should see:
Make a copy of this block of data using
“Ctrl C” or “Copy”
Updating Contacts (9)
Select all the data (but not the first
row) as shown using the selection
methodology of your choice.
Make sure you don’t miss any rows
(there are a lot of them). Depending
on which file you are using, it will be
quite long.
Paste this new Private Call list into the
original spreadsheet
Updating Contacts (10)
In the original spreadsheet, highlight the cell in column “A”
immediately below the last row of Group Call data. In this
case at row 64 (your case may differ).
Paste the copied data into the original spreadsheet using
“Shift+Insert” or “Ctrl+V”.
Your result should appear as shown in the screen shot at
the left. The newly appended “Private Call” list is
highlighted in blue. The fonts may be different as shown
here which does not seem to matter to the CPS.
The last step is to renumber column 1 (the
No column) sequentially.
Updating Contacts (11)
Renumber the first column starting with the value 1 for the
first Group Call row (which should be Row 2) continuing
sequentially down through the final Private Call Contact in
the last row, using your favorite Excel fill technique.
A good way to fill this column with sequential
numbers is to write 1 and 2 into the first cell
of rows 2 and 2 respectively (as shown to the
left). Select the cells as shown, then grab the
bottom right corner (note black dot) and drag
it to the bottom row. It will auto-fill {1, 2, 3, …}.
Put the mouse pointer on the black dot, hold
down the mouse button and pull it all the way
to the bottom. There are other ways as well.
Save the resulting spreadsheet and import
this file back into the radio:
Import back into Radio
1. Click “Import Digital
Contact” from the “Tools”
pulldown in the CPS.
2. Navigate to the saved
file location, select the file
and click “Open”
3. Wait for the operation
to complete
