wiresheet-WebWireSheet

In Niagara 4.11 and later, there is added support for Web Wire Sheet. This is an implementation of the Wire Sheet view that runs natively in a web browser. It provides the same basic functionality as the existing Wire Sheet, but is accessible from your desktop or mobile device as part of the HTML5-based web interface.

Prerequisites

Only users with admin WRITE privileges can access the Web Wire Sheet.

When you are logged in to the Niagara web interface (station connection via browser), the Web Wire Sheet is available for any component on which you have the necessary permission. To view, right-click a component and click Views > Wire Sheet.

Figure 252. Web Wire Sheet runs in a browser connection

1. The Web Wire Sheet toolbar offers similar functions as Workbench.

2. The Nav tree, Search and Palette sidebar buttons expand and close the sidebar panes.

3. The view selector allows you to quickly display different views.

4. This feature provides a small thumbnail view of the entire wire sheet for orientation and navigation purposes.

Web Wire Sheet matches the existing Wire Sheet behavior in Workbench, but there are a few differences:

Copy/Paste functionality is restricted to the current station (that is, you cannot copy components out of one station and paste into another, or to/from your computer's hard drive).
Wire Sheet functionality specific to the ACE drivers is not yet available.

What’s new

As of Niagara 4.12, the following features are available in Web Wire Sheet:

Linking, relating or adding objects

	Workbench (4.12)	Niagara 4.11 (browser connection)	Niagara 4.12 (browser connection)
Relate objects by dragging a wire from the bottom bar of a selected object to the bottom bar of a target object.	yes	no	yes
Drag components from the palette and Nav tree onto Web Wire Sheet.	yes	yes	yes
Link or relate by dragging components from the palette, search side bar or Nav tree onto another object. Link/relate toggle remembers the setting of the previous action.	no	no	yes

Displaying Web Wire Sheet objects

	Workbench (4.12)	Niagara 4.11 (browser connection)	Niagara 4.12 (browser connection)
Objects, links, relations and knobs	yes	yes	yes
Lucid icon displays for each selection	yes	no	yes
Wire Sheet Thumbnail to navigate to the desired logic	yes	yes	yes

Using the object context menu

	Workbench (4.12)	Niagara 4.11 (browser connection)	Niagara 4.12 (browser connection)
Cut, copy, paste, paste special, delete within component space	yes	yes	yes
Duplicate objects	yes	no	yes
Paste special to specify the number of copies and whether to keep all links and relations.	yes	yes	yes
Export current view or object.	yes	yes	yes
Edit tags	yes	yes	yes
Edit link	yes	yes	yes
Delete individual knob links from Delete command menu.	yes	no	yes
Select and navigate to individual knob links from the GoTo Link command menu.	yes	no	yes
Individually select and follow linked components (property sheet) from the Goto Linked Component command menu.	yes	no	yes
Composite editor	yes	yes	yes
Display or hide pin slots.	yes	yes	yes

Touch devices

Web Wire Sheet works largely the same on a touch device, with the following differences:

Use a long press to bring up the context (right-click) menu.
Dragging from a palette may not be fully supported on all devices.
To start a rubber band (selection), use a long-press and then move your finger.
Use one finger to scroll, or two fingers to zoom.
For hyperlinking, double-click is unavailable, but you can always long press and choose a view.
As of Niagara 4.12, you can select all or individual object glyphs without holding down the ctrl key.

Web Wire Sheet Toolbar

Figure 253. Web Wire Sheet toolbar

The toolbar contains the following tools in order from left to right:

Zoom in
Zoom out
Search
Select all objects (as of Niagara 4.12
Wire Sheet Options
Undo
Redo
Enable selection mode: toggle (as of Niagara 4.12)
Export the current view or object