Prerequisite : This feature is available for users with a View Creator role.
Access IndaView Creator and select a monitoring application.
Next, open a synoptic and access the configuration screen of the object you want to configure.
Then, go to the animation menu.
The animation properties are common to all graphic objects.
The configuration interface allows you to manage different types of animations:
Visibility Animation
Color/Text/Flashing Animation
Edit a formula
To manage each animation, you have to indicate a calculation formula. To simplify the input of these equations, click on
The formula editor opens.
This tool allows you to :
Select the variables needed for designing the formulas.
Select the operators required for designing the formulas.
Variable Selection
The top part of this tool enables the selection of variables from the dictionary.
Specify the data source from which you want to search for a variable.
Note: You can perform a search from Indaba metrics or the alias system.
Search filters are available (metric name, description, and unit).
Note: You can reset the search filters using the
button.
Once you have selected your metric, click the Insert Metric button to add it to the formula.
Formulas creation
The lower part of this tool allows you to enter the formula to be evaluated.
The formula can consist of a single variable or a set of variables connected by operators.
List of available operators below :
Functions are also at your disposal.
The cast function (value, type)
It allows for the conversion of one type to another.
Example of usage for converting a floating-point value to an integer: cast(100.25, int)
The Exist("variable")
This function allows you to test the existence of a variable in the variable dictionary.
The If(condition, trueValue, falseValue)
This function allows you to evaluate the equation passed in the "condition" parameter. The function returns the values passed in the "trueValue" and "falseValue" parameters based on the evaluation result.
Defining a visibility equation
This input area allows you to provide an equation to make the graphic object visible or invisible on the screen.
For the object to be visible, the result of the equation should evaluate to true.
For example, in our previous illustration, the object will be visible if the variable's value is higher than 20.
Define an animation equation
This input area allows you to enter a formula whose evaluation dynamically determines the style to apply to the graphic object.
Once the formula is entered, click the + button to add an animation.
The configuration of the animation style is done through the settings grid on the right side of the window.
Several settings are available :
- Style :
Blinking: allows you to enable blinking
Background Colour: allows you to choose the background color
Text Colour: allows you to choose the text color
Image: allows you to choose an image file (Image object only)
Label: allows you to associate a text label (Message object only)
- Line :
Line Colour: allows you to choose the line colour.
Line Thickness: allows you to choose the line thickness.
Line Style: allows you to choose a line style.
- Animation Value :
Ref Animation: allows you to associate a selection criterion for the use of the style.
Note : The following evaluations are allowed (where x is a constant):
= x
>= x
> x
< x
<= x
Delete an animation equation
To delete an animation equation, click on the "-" button.
Setting the order of application for the animation parameters
When you have multiple animation parameters, you can arrange the evaluations to manage priorities.
Simply use the buttons
