System Manager

Overview

System Manager is a multi-pane window for navigating, monitoring, and controlling all the components and subsystems of your site. For example, you can inspect properties and states of objects, consult floor plan graphics, send commands, and so on. In the Lite DMS User Interface, two System Manager layouts are available, a primary and an advanced layout, and you can easily switch between the two.

NOTE: The exact interface will vary depending on your particular configuration, and you may not see all the components described. In particular, the Graphics display and its operation are dependent on the selected object.

Primary Layout

The Primary Layout is the default look and feel shown when the user logs in the system.

 

Name

Description

1

Application Selection

It lists the applications configured in the system and groups them in categories. Depending on the application, Graphics pages, Documents or Reports display here, and can be selected and then operated from the work area.

Upon starting up, the system presents the latest application selected, or you can set a preferred default application by holding the mouse pointer over it for more than 2 seconds. The checkmark indicates the default application.

2

Default View

The Default tab provides the standard display of the selected object.

3

Textual Viewer

The Textual Viewer provides a quick summary of the current value and status of any selected objects without any prior system configuration.

4

Work area

Displays the selected application for further operation.

5

Object status indication

The Status and Commands window displays next to the object in graphics, when the user right-clicks on it. Events can be acknowledged and/or reset here.

Advanced Layout

The advanced interface provides additional display and control elements: the Site Viewer pane, on the right-hand side of the screen, with dynamic symbols representing control panels and system components, and the Contextual pane, below the work area, which contains detailed properties and commands of the selected objects.

 

Name

Description

1

Layout selection

The layout icons allow switching between primary and advanced interface.

2

Site Viewer

The Site Viewer enables you to monitor and control the installed control panels, which display as graphic symbols that show the category color of the most important event, and blink when an event acknowledgement is required. For more information, see Site Viewer.

3

Contextual pane

Detailed properties and control commands are available in the Status and Commands window.

Workflows

You can select an application from both the Selection pane, on the left-hand side of screen, and from the Site Viewer pane, on the right-hand side. In the Selection pane, open the expanders in System Browser and click an application icon to select it and propagate its information to the working area. The past selections are collected in the Recently Viewed tab for quick access.

In the Site Viewer, double-click a control panel or a system component to perform the same selection. In the work area, or in the Site Viewer, click an object to populate the Contextual pane with its properties and control commands.

 

Name

Description

1

Application Selection

Open the System Browser expanders and click the icon to propagate the object information in the work area. The past selections can be found again quickly in the Recently Viewed tab.

2

Site Viewer

Click the symbol to populate the Contextual pane with properties and commands of the selected panel.
Double-click the symbol to propagate the object information to the work area.

3

Contextual pane

Click any object in the work area to display properties and control commands in the Status and Commands window.