AlarmScreenNg 0.9.9
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Users have the possibility to modify the appearance of the AS EWO at runtime, to adjust the mode of the table, its columns, row order and other settings.
Operations on user settings are available in the popup menu of the "Settings..." button in the toolbar of the footer area :
User settings can be edited using a dedicated panel, opened when 'Edit User Settings' is selected in the User Settings menu.
The list in the left part of panel is used to switch between different tabs. The options in every tab are described in the following sections.
When the Apply button is pressed, all settings from the panel are immediately applied to the AS EWO from which it was opened. Note that the settings from all the tabs are applied, not only the one that is currently visible.
When the 'Table columns' tab is selected, the user can select which columns are displayed in the Alarm Table, in what order, and the width of every column.
The visibility of individual columns in the Alarm Table is controlled by content of the column titled Show in this table. The following values are possible:
The last column in table indicates table columns which can not be displayed in History mode of alarm source, just because corresponding value is missing in archive.
The following settings are available in the 'Sort' tab:
The user can select one or more columns used for sorting of rows in the Alarm Table and their ordering modes (ascending/descending). Sorting of rows is performed on the first selected column, then the second, and so on.
Sorting can be performed on both visible and hidden columns in the Alarm Table.
The following grouping settings are available in the 'Grouping' tab:
These settings allow to configure grouping of alarms so that the The Alarm Table is no longer a flat table, but a tree. The number of levels in the tree is not limited.
The configuration table in this panel contains the following columns:
The frame Group column beneath the table allows to configure the header and width for the grouping (leftmost) column.
AS EWO can be configured to connect to selected systems automatically. This is part of basic configuration, however, the settings from basic configuration can be overwritten by user settings:
Checkbox on top is used to decide if user settings shall override basic configuration or not. Note that even empty lists of system names in user setting may override the settings from basic configuration; this can be used, for example, in order to disable auto connection completely, even if it was specified in basic configuration.
Two lists below checkbox are contain list of system names (with wildcards). Contents of these two lists define the rules for: to what systems shall AS EWO connect automatically. The system shall be connected automatically if:
On example, shown on picture above, AS EWO shall automatically connect to all systems, except for 2 systems called 'specific1' and 'specific2'.
When the 'Appearance' tab is selected in the User Settings panel, the following editor appears:
This panel allows to show/hide selected parts of the AS EWO, as well as to change the display mode of the Alarm Table between '1 row per alarm pair' and '2 rows per alarm pair'.
The bottom part of panel allows for editing appearance of 3 essential elements of AS EWO: filter view, filter editor and status bar. These setings are organized in kind of 'table' on the panel, with the following 'columns':
The current set of user settings in the AS EWO can be saved for future use. The panel for saving user settings is opened when the item 'Save User Settings' is selected in the User Settings menu.
The users settings are saved with unique names. The table in the panel shows the names of previously saved user settings, plus two more columns indicating which settings are used by default.
User settings belong to users who saved them. The checkbox My Settings above the table allows to display only the settings that belong to the current user.
The text field beneath the table is used to specify the name under which the settings will be saved. If such name is already used, an appropriate warning will be shown, and the user will be able to choose whether to overwrite the previously saved settings.
The combo box beneath the name of settings determines if the default filter of the AS EWO shall change the settings are. The values of this option for already saved user settings are shown in the Filter column of the table. See User settings DP for more details on possible options.
The user can delete previously saved settings using the Delete button at the bottom of the panel.
Previously saved user settings can be loaded and applied to the AS. The panel for loading user settings is opened when the item 'Load User Settings' is selected in the User Settings menu and it looks very similar to the one used to save user settings.
The header of the panel displays the name of the DP with the basic configuration used by this AS EWO.
The user settings can be edited for the current session and saved for future use, but the default user settings will be loaded when the AS is restarted. The default user settings are initially specified in the basic configuration. On top of that, one of the saved user settings can be nominated as the default. The following process is used when the AS is started:
The panel for configuring the default settings is opened by clicking 'Set Default User Settings' from the User Settings menu.
Only the settings that belong to the current user are displayed in the panel. The user can select one of the settings and change the usage of this setting to either 'default for this user', or 'default for all users'.
There is no possibility of using settings that belong to another user as the default for the current user. The argument is simple: what if that user deletes them? It is of course still possible to load any saved settings, then save them for the current user and mark them as default.