Hello all,
I'd previously added a conversation in the user forum:

http://www.openremote.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=19434062&focusedCommentId=19434288#comment-19434288

I've now nearly finished my additions to the Controller. I can keep these controller changes local to my server here, I've no problem submitting them after a fuller test. However in order to give the system to my friend it would be great if he could use the designer and save me manually editing configuration files for him, and his every change.

I know in the lead up to the Christmas period this is not the best time to ask this, sorry about that. Is there any way that something could be added to the online Designer? I've called my protocol elexol but that naming convention might not meet approval here. it's confused by the fact that the company offers both Ethernet and USB modules. I'm working on the USB version.

At present the commands are "on" and "off" for a port "A", "B" or "C" and a pin number between 1 and 8 inclusive. I hope that this might be added to the Designer and that it would not impact other users of the Designer at all. I'm not sure of it's structure having added most to the Controller code and not looked at the Designer at all. If this is unacceptable please let me know what I can do or the procedure I should follow for some inclusion?

look forward to hearing from you.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openremote xmlns="http://www.openremote.org"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openremote.org protocol.xsd">

<protocol displayName="Elexol USB" tagName="elexol">

<attr name="command-name" label="Command Name">
<validations>
<allowBlank>false</allowBlank>
<regex message="Command must be ON or OFF">(ON|OFF)</regex>
</validations>
</attr>

<attr name="Port" label="Port for the Command">
<validations>
<allowBlank>false</allowBlank>
<maxLength>1</maxLength>
<regex message="Only A, B or C Allowed">[ABC]</regex>
</validations>
</attr>

<attr name="pin" label="Pin for the Command">
<validations>
<allowBlank>false</allowBlank>
<maxLength>1</maxLength>
<regex message="Only numbers allowed">[1-8]</regex>
</validations>
</attr>
</protocol>
</openremote>