Panel Name

fwDeviceEditorNavigator.pnl

Introduction

The Device Editor and Navigator is the entry panel of the Framework. Most of the Framework functionality is available navigating from it.
The user can work in two modes, Editor and Navigator. The Editor mode is meant to create/remove and configure the required devices inside PVSS.  Once they are configured, then the user can switch to Navigator mode to do basic operations to setup device specific parameters.

Instructions

The panel is organized in three tabs (Hardware, Logical, FSM) reflecting the steps necessary to configure the necessary for your application.  Each tab has two different working modes: Editor and Navigator.

  1. Hardware View (Figure 1):
The first step when creating your application is to instantiate and set up inside PVSS the representation of the devices you are using (e.g. high voltage crates, temperature sensors, etc). This is done in the Hardware View. In this view the devices are organized in vendor nodes  (e.g.  CAEN, Wiener).  The following actions are available when right clicking in the tree in Editor mode (for more details go to the help of the specific panel):
  • Add: to create new devices in PVSS and configure them with the default settings.
  • Clone: to copy a subtree of devices keeping their configuration.
  • Remove: to delete a subtree of devices. It actually deletes the devices from PVSS.
  • Settings: to configure a subtree of devices. It is also possible to configure a part of the tree selected according to some criteria.
  • Properties: displays all the elements of the selected device together with the configuration for each of them.
  • Expand: expands the node in the tree.
  • Configuration DB: if the Configuration DB tool is installed, a panel will pop-up to deal with the storage and retrieval of the selected subtree in a database.
At the system level node the following options are available:
  • Open Installation Tool: opens the Installation Tool
  • System settings: to set system parameters. Currently only the help browser is specified.
  • Settings: to configure all the devices in the hardware tree. It is also possible to configure a subset selected according to some criteria.
  • Register device type: registers an existing PVSS datapoint type as a Framework device.
  • Inactive alarms: lists all the alarms in the system which are inactive (masked). These are alarms for which the alarm condition is still evaluated, but no alarm is raised when the alarm condition is raised.
2. Logical View (Figure 2):
After the hardware representation has been created, one can move to the organization of devices in logical units. This is done in the Logical and FSM views. In the Logical view be can group devices at a low level to build units that will be used afterwards in the FSM hierarchy.  The following actions are available when right clicking in the tree in Editor mode (for more details go to the help of the specific panel):
  • Add -> Add Node: creates an empty logical node.
  • Add -> Add From Hardware: to add devices created in the hardware view to a logical node.
  • Remove: to remove a subtree from the Logical tree. The devices are not removed from PVSS. Simply their alias is set to null.
  • Cut: moves a subtree of devices to the clipboard.
  • Paste: takes a subtree of devices from the clipboard and puts it as child of the selected device.
  • Rename: changes the logical name (PVSS alias) of the selected device.
  • Settings: to configure a subtree of devices. It is also possible to configure a part of the tree selected according to some criteria.
  • Properties: displays all the elements of the selected device together with the configuration for each of them.
  • Expand: expands the node in the tree.
  • Configuration DB: if the Configuration DB tool is installed, a panel will pop-up to deal with the storage and retrieval of the selected subtree in a database.
some of these actions might be disabled depending on the type of the selected device. At the system level node the following options are available:
  • Add -> Add Node: creates an empty logical node.
  • Add -> Add From Hardware: to add devices created in the hardware view to a logical node.
  • Paste: to paste a subtree available in the clipboard.
  • Settings: to configure all the devices in the logical tree. It is also possible to configure a subset selected according to some criteria.
  • Open Installation Tool: opens the Installation Tool
3. FSM View:
Here is where you can add behaviour to the devices in the Hardware and Logical views. For more details on how to use it you can have a look in the home page of the fwFSM component fwFSM.

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Figure 1. Hardware View.

     
Figure 2. Logical View.

 

 

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