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48 The Workstation Installation/Operation Manual Version 2 Document 51540 Rev. B1 4/8/02
2.3.2 Contents of the Floor Plan Display
The floor plan display is a highly detailed canvas that allows the workstation to function within a wide range of
applications, scales, and environments. This section will detail the different types of objects on the display and
examine situations in which they might be found.
The floor plan display can contain three different classes of objects:
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Devices
- Devices include a number of different types of objects and can be divided further into six
different types of graphical (floor plan based) devices:
- Addressable Discrete Devices
- Addressable Analog Devices
- Functional Buttons
- Navigational Buttons
- Site Annunciation Icons
- Information Labels
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Vector Graphics
- Vector graphics include a number of different graphical objects including:
- Non Device Text
- Line Based Vector Objects (Lines, Boxes, Ellipses, and Arcs)
- Bitmaps (Bitmaps mapped to vector boxes)
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Background
- The background can be one of three types:
- Blank
- Imported Bitmap (.BMP)
- Imported Windows MetaFile (.WMF)
These three primary elements and their subcategories form what is seen on various screens in the floor plan display.
Some elements are more common than others, but we will look at all of them to provide a full overview.
Addressable Devices
Addressable Devices represent physical real-world network devices that are monitored by the workstation. These
include various monitoring devices such as motion detectors, pullstations, and door sensors. Addressable devices
also include NIONs, servers, and other workstations on the network. Almost any physical networked device falls
into this category.
There are two different types of Addressable Devices:
Discrete and Analog .
Discrete devices are monitored nodes, NIONs, and panels with defined ( discrete ) states or conditions. These
conditions are annunciated at the workstation. For example, a pullstation either reports a normal state, an alarm
state, or a trouble state. Normal state indicates normal operation, Alarm state shows that the pullstation has been
activated, and a Trouble state indicates a functional problem with the device.
Analog Devices are devices with one or more continuously variable values that are translated into states by the
workstation software based on configurable ranges. An example of an analog device is an environmental sensor,
which continuously reports values such as temperature. Depending on the configured ranges, the workstation will
indicate various states for the device.
Addressable devices have pop-up menus activated by right clicking on the device that allow to view device proper-
ties and descriptions, execute macro code to perform device specific operations
(for example, acknowledge a device, reset a panel, etc.), and view linked text,
video, pictures, and sound. An operator can also enter a custom response entry
to a fault from the device. For more information on Pop-Ups, see the Device
Pop-Ups subsection.
Left clicking on a device zooms to place the device in the center and at its native
zoom level.
Figure 2-16: Sample
Pop-up Menu