AI4100 Portable AEI Reader
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March 2, 2015
2.7. Manual Entry of Vehicle Identification
There will be situations where a rail vehicle has a bad tag or is missing a tag. Vehicle
identification information can be manually entered. To manually enter vehicle identification
information, tap anywhere on the screen, which will cause a pop-up menu to be displayed
(see Figure 14). Select the Manually Enter Tag Info menu item, and the Manual Entry dialog
shown in Figure 17 will appear.
Figure 17 - Manual Entry Dialog
The Vehicle Initial can either be selected from a list of previously entered Vehicle Initials in
the Vehicle Initial field's pull down list (which appears when you tap on the down triangle
located on the right side of the Vehicle Initial field), or a new Vehicle Initial can be typed in
using the keyboard. If the keyboard is not displayed, tap on the keyboard icon located near
the bottom right of the screen. This will cause the keyboard to be displayed. Tap on the
characters of the new Vehicle Initial. Tapping the keyboard icon a second time will cause the
keyboard to disappear.
After you have entered a new Vehicle Initial, this new Vehicle Initial will appear in the Vehicle
Initial's pull down list when the dialog is displayed again.
The default Vehicle Initial can be set by going to the Default Values dialog (see Paragraph
5.10).
The Vehicle Number field must contain between 1 to 6 digits to be accepted. The portable
reader will insert any leading zeroes. Numbers can be quickly entered into this field by
tapping the number buttons under this field. It is not necessary to select the Vehicle Number
field (by tapping it) prior to tapping on these number buttons.