Status and Commands

The Status and Commands window displays on a graphic, and allows you to display and change the current state of an object’s properties in your building control system. Access to objects is based upon the object privileges and privilege profiles set by the system administrator.\ More About the Status and Commands Window

The Status and Commands window is a floating view that displays over an object on the canvas, and can be moved around in the Graphics Viewer. The Status and Commands window displays a connection line to its associated objects on the canvas. The connection point of the connection line, anchors itself in the following manner:

Non-engineered elements: The connection point aligns itself to the center of the element.
Symbols: The connection point aligns itself to the center of the first element in the symbol, according to the element tree.
Customized Connection Point: You can create a connection point location by drawing an ellipse where you want to anchor the connection point for the symbol. In the Ellipse Descriptor field, you can enter text stating it is an anchor for the connection point. To hide the ellipse from view, either cover it up by another element (preferred method) or disable the Visible property for the element in the Property tree. In both cases, make sure that the ellipse is the first element in the Symbols element tree in the Element view.

For graphics and graphic templates only, you can specify the maximum number of connection lines to display. The default value of 65535 is used when the property Graphics > Max Connection Lines is left blank, in which case under normal circumstances all lines display with the Status and Commands window. If the actual number of connection lines associated with a Status and Commands window exceeds the number of connection lines specified in this property, then none of the lines display.

Displaying Properties on a Graphic

Properties display on a graphic in one of two ways—automatically or manually.

They display automatically when a property goes into an off-normal state. The Status and Commands window displays the icons associated with the properties in an off-normal state on the graphic. You expand the icon view to display the detailed property information and the command options.
The Status and Commands window displays manually when you right-click an object in a graphic that has data points associated with it. You can display multiple Status and Commands windows in Graphics.

When a Status and Command window displays on the graphic, a connection line displays between the window and its associated objects on the canvas. The connection line between the Status and Commands window and the objects remains intact, even when the window is moved around on the canvas.

Properties and commands also display in the Operation and Extended Operation tabs for the selected object.

For more information on commanding properties and priority arrays, see Command Priorities and Priority Arrays.

Summary Status

In order to simplify the system display and highlight the most important information, the system sometimes combines properties into a Summary Status property. The Summary Status displays the highest priority status that is currently active for an object. For example, if an object has an active Fire alarm and Fire fault, the Fire alarm displays in the Summary Status.

Drag-and-Drop

The Status and Commands window is a drag source for data point properties. When the Status and Commands window is expanded, you can drag a data point or one of its properties from the window to any of the drop targets in the Graphics Editor or other applications. You cannot drag-and-drop virtual data point properties, such as those properties that display No Properties or Not Available.

Evaluation Editor: When you drop a data point property in the Expression field of the Graphics Editor’s Evaluation Editor, the current value of the property displays in the Result field for the element’s property.
Ribbon: When you drop a data point property onto the ribbon, all the graphics associated with that data point display as tabbed graphics in the work area.
Graphic Canvas: When you drop a data point property onto the canvas, the associated data point symbol displays on the graphic.

For a list of the drop sources in the Graphics Editor, see the Table of Graphics Drop Targets.