Category Manager (wbutil-CategoryManager)

This view of the CategoryService allows you to create, enable and delete the groups that the security model uses to control access to the objects in a station. Once you create categories, you use the Category Browser view to centrally assign system objects to categories. Or, at the individual component level, you use a component’s Category Sheet view to assign the component to one or more categories.

Columns

You can assign an object to many categories at the same time. Each object stores its own categories.

Figure 1. Category Manager, Temperature Points as Category

To access this view, expand Config > Services and right-click CategoryService and click Views > Category Manager.


Column	Description
Index	Reports a unique number for the category as it is known to the station.
Name	Displays descriptive text that reflects the purpose of the entity or logical grouping.
Status	Reports the current condition of the entity as of the last refresh: {alarm}, {disabled}, {down}, {fault}, {ok}, {stale}, {unackedAlarm}
Fault Cause	Indicates the reason for a fault.