Integrating Calibrator Objects into the Management Platform
Scenario: You want to integrate calibrator objects into the management platform and associate these objects with their dimensions to aggregator nodes in views.
Reference: For background information, see the reference section.
Workflow diagram:
Prerequisites:
- You have installed the extension Virtual Devices and Building Data and added it into a project using the SMC.
- You have assigned application rights to calibrators.
- System Manager is in Engineering mode.
- System Browser is in Application View.
Steps:
1 – Create Calibrator Objects with Dimensions
- Select Applications > Calibrators.
- The Calibrators displays.
- In the toolbar, click New .
- An empty row for entering the details of the dimensions object is added to the Dimensions table.
- Click a cell entry in the empty row and enter values for the following:
- Dimension Name
- Dimension Description
- Current Value
- Unit: You must select a value from the drop-down list.
- Click Save and enter a name for the calibrator object.
- The calibrator object is created and is selected by default and becomes available below the Calibrators node in System Browser along with the specified dimensions.
- The newly-added current value entry also displays in the Dimension History section along with the date and time in the Valid From field that indicates the date/time when the value is added. The value in the Valid To field is not applicable in this case, as this is the current entry.
2 – Link Dimensions with an Aggregator Node
- You have created views with aggregator nodes. For information on creating views with aggregator nodes, see Creating and Building a User-Defined View.
- Navigate to the view with the aggregator nodes and select the aggregator node to which you want to link the calibrator object.
- Select Applications > Calibrators > [calibrator object].
- Drag the dimension from the calibrator object to the respective node in the Views tab.
- The dimension is successfully linked to the aggregator node.