Engineering Documentation

Table Of Contents
Graphics engineering with Graphics Builder
Working with dashboards
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Siemens
A6V11211560_enUS_b
Building Technologies
2019-01-15
Navigation bar (MainLayer)
Contains the date and time display, the tabbed buttons and the company logo. This layer is always
visible.
The navigation bar uses the Toggle buttons program, which is in the Sample dashboard public
graphic.
Weather layer
Contains a Ractive component that embeds external media to display the current weather
conditions plus a three-day forecast.
and
Energy and Water layers
Each layer contains a Ractive component that compares the building’s resource consumption
to common household devices.
The number of icons displayed in color represents the maximum daily consumption over
the last four weeks.
For the Energy layer, an electric oven is the default device used for comparison.
For the Water layer, a washing machine is the default device used for comparison.
To change the icons, see Overview of the Energy and Water resource consumption
graphics [➙ 93]
Each layer contains a background image, which can be modified.
Adding or replacing a background image [➙ 101]
Each layer contains a timer that refreshes the data displayed in the tab. By default, the data is
refreshed every three hours.
Changing the refresh interval for a trended data point [➙ 103]