Assigning a component to a basic category
You use the Category Browser to assign individual components to basic categories. Components may belong to more than one category at the same time.
- Right-click Expand CategoryService in the Nav tree and click in the Nav tree.The Category Browser view appears. Use this view to assign components to categoriesategory
By default this view shows the component types collapsed into rows in a tree structure: Alarm, Config (components), Files, and History. The columns represent the categories in the station. The column titles identify the categories.
- To view all components that have category assignments, click the binocular icon
) on the toolbar.All components appear in the table. - Use the expandable tree to navigate to components of interest in the table. To return to the previous collapsed view, select
the
Category Browserfrom the drop-down list of views. - As needed, in any component row, click either:
- In the category column to assign a component to a category or click again (toggle) to remove the component assignment from the category.
- In the Inherit column to assign a component to any of the categories its parent is assigned to.
With the exception of the root components, Alarms, Config, Files, and History, each object must belong to at least one basic category or inherit its parent’s category assignments. The root objects cannot inherit. They must belong to one or more categories.NOTE: When an admin user (user with Admin write privilege on the CategoryService and on a particular station component being adjusted) makes a category mask adjustment, the user must also have at least the Operator write privilege on the category being adjusted in the category mask for the station object. This includes changes to check marks in the “Inherit” column—the user must have at least Operator write access to any altered categories applied from the Inherit change.
Using the Category Browser to assign a component to a basic category updates the component’s category bitmap. Copying the component to another station
or saving it in a bog for reuse includes the category bitmap.