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Operating Reference
System Manager
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3.1.4.4 Summary Status
In order to simplify the system display and highlight the most important information,
the system sometimes combines properties into a single Summary Status property.
The Summary Status property displays the highest priority status that is currently
active for an object. For example, if an object has an active Fire Alarm and Fire
Fault, the Fire Alarm would be displayed in the Summary Status.
3.1.4.5 Multiple-Object Commanding
With multiple-object commanding, you are not really commanding objects at all.
Instead, you are commanding one property type, Present Value for instance, for
more than one object of the same type.
If you select multiple objects of the same type, for example, Analog Output, the
icon next to the property name indicates this with a triangular symbol in the lower-
right-hand corner. Clicking this symbol expands the table row to show all of the
selected objects of the same type that share this property. You can then change
(command) all Present Value properties for the selected objects at the same time.
You can command a maximum of 250 objects.
In the following graphic, the system indicates that you have selected multiple
objects by displaying a triangular symbol in the lower right-hand corner of the
Present Value icon.
The following graphic shows that you have clicked the triangular icon. The system
now displays two additional rows, which represent two selected objects of the
same type.
3.1.4.6 Propagation
Propagation means relaying Common Status information up the building control
system's hierarchical tree. Information that is relayed up the hierarchy as a result of
a change in the Common Status of an object is called status propagation.
Propagation is based on the parent-child-grandchild model. Each object in the
system can have one or more parent objects and one or more child objects. Each
child in the system can simultaneously propagate multiple active Common Status
properties to a parent, such as alarm, fault, or technical exclusion.
The following table shows propagation from two different viewpoints.
Logical View of the System Physical View of the System
Building (parent) A building node (parent)
Floor in the building (child) Field panel (child)
Room on the floor (grandchild) Point (grandchild)
Temperature sensor in the room (great-
grandchild)
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