User Manual

Operating Reference
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Navigation
You can navigate to a view of each related item by clicking on the item. For
instance, if you click a management station object, such as a graphic, Graphics
Viewer displays the referenced graphic object. If you click an external item, such as
a PDF file, Adobe Reader opens with the referenced file displayed. Other items
that you can access include point types, Word documents, Excel documents, and
URLs.
Display of Items
The Related Items tab displays the items used for most daily operations. Related
Items contains two sets of buttons. You can toggle the first set of buttons, Links
and Icons, which allows you to switch between text views or small images of the
items in the list. The Links view is more compact than the Icons view, so more
related items can be displayed with this view than with the Icons view. The display
mode that is currently selected in System Browser determines how text displays.
For example, text might be displayed as description, name, description plus name,
or name plus description.
The second set of buttons, Group and Ungroup, allows you to switch between
categories or flat-list views of the items in the list. The Group view shows items
arranged by object type (analog input, digital output, schedules, graphics, reports,
PDFs, Word files, web links, etc.) and is expanded by default, but which you can
collapse as well. When the Group view is collapsed, the Links and Icons views are
disabled. The Ungroup view displays all related items without displaying their
corresponding group names.
If you select one object from System Browser, Related Items displays all links
associated with that object. If you select two or more objects from System Browser,
Related Items displays only those links that all selected objects have in common.
For example, you select three objects in System Browser with the following links:
Object Links
EastWingLab Monthly Energy Consumption Report
Third Floor Heating/Cooling Schedule
WestWingOffice Monthly Energy Consumption Report
Third Floor Heating/Cooling Schedule
NorthWingOffice Monthly Energy Consumption Report
Third Floor Heating/Cooling Schedule
The result of this selection is that Related Items displays only the Monthly Energy
Consumption Report and the Third Floor Heating/Cooling Schedule links because
they are common to all three objects.
Maintenance of User Preferences
Related Items stores the settings of the Group and Ungroup views and the Links
and Icons views for each object that you interact with so that you do not need to
continually adjust your settings as you navigate from one object to the next.
Deleting and Re-adding Points
Be careful about deleting and then re-adding points in your system since this can
break the links in Related Items.
For example, you select a point on a graphic, and the graphic itself displays as one
of the links for that point in Related Items. If you delete the point from the field
panel, and then re-add it (re-import it using the Auto Discovery feature), the graphic
will display the point, but the related items for the point will be lost. If you select the
re-added point in System Browser, the graphic will not display.
In the case of graphics, you can restore the broken links using the Graphics
Consistency Checker diagnostic tool.
If you delete points relating to camera devices, External Documents, and
Management Station Schedules, your links will be permanently lost.