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Click the Configurations button Image Modified on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management app to open the Configurations page. 

Content

The page consists of several areas:

  • The top: toolbar area.
  • The list on the left hand side shows configurations.
  • The form on the right hand side shows the properties of the configuration.left: list of configurations
  • right: configuration properties


A configuration is an extension to the device/user/project settings as described before. It is like a container which can store that stores detailed information concerning layer access to layers and enabled functions as well as values of workspace and page variablesvariable values.

A configuration has to configuration must be unique per device, per user/group, and per project. Note: only Only the project is mandatory, the device and user/group are optional and can remain empty!

When a client connects, the system searches the relevant configuration in the following order and selects the first matching configuration:

  1. step: by all its keys (as in Evaluation 1) - if there is no result evaluate next step, otherwise configuration found. 
  2. step: by two keys (as in Evaluation 2) - if there is no result evaluate next step, otherwise configuration found.
  3. step: by two keys (as in Evaluation 3) - if there is no result evaluate next step, otherwise configuration found.
  4. step: by one key (as in Evaluation 4) - if there is no result no configuration is available, otherwise configuration found.

System evaluation of configurations  

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1. key

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2. key 

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  1. by project, user/group, and device
  2. by project and user/group
  3. by project and device
  4. by project

If no configuration could be matched, the client uses the device's default settings.

When specifying a configuration, ensure that the keys of the configuration fit match to the project - otherwise the system will can never apply the configuration.

Toolbar functions

The functions on the page depend on the role of the logged on user.

FunctionDescription

Add a configuration.

Duplicate configuration.

Delete configuration.

Switch to multi-select mode.

List of configurations

Column nameDescription
NameName of the configuration.
DeviceName of the device affected by this configuration.
User / GroupName of the user or group affected by this configuration.
ProjectName of the project affected by this configuration.

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