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The Visualization Management App
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Introduction
The Visualization Management app is the tool to set up logical visualization devices and link them to a project. Visualization access control configuration is also done here.
The app contains of five pages:
- Projects: the inventory of visualization projects related to the current server workspace.
- Devices: configured devices for visualization
- Users: assign users to visualization devices
- Groups: assign groups to visualization devices
- Configurations: set up specific permissions for layers and modules, set visualization workspace variables
Projects
Click the Projects button 
on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management App to open the Projects page.
The list shows the projects, the number of defined devices, the date when the project was received last time and the date, when the project was deployed the last time.
Existing projects, created with the Visualization Editor, can be imported by clicking the button Select File.
To make the project available for the web clients it has to be deployed to the web server.
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Devices
Click the Devices button 
on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management App to open the Devices page.
Each project needs at least one device definition. Later on, user permissions are defined on devices.
The list on the left side shows the device definitions for each project, containing the number of connections and the maximum number of connections. Devices can be enabled or disabled.
Properties for the selected device are shown on the right side. The number of client connections can be limited here.
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Shows details of a connected web client. The client can be disconnected.
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Users
Click the Users button 
on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management App to open the Users page.
The list on the left side shows the users defined in User Management. To authorize a user for a project select one or more projects on the right side.
Groups
Click the Groups button 
on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management App to open the Groups page.
The list on the left side shows the groups defined in User Management. To authorize a group for a project select one or more projects on the right side.
Configurations
Click the Configurations button 
on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management App to open the Configurations page.
The list on the left hand side shows configurations. A configuration can be done per project, per device and per user or group.
The right hand side shows the properties of the configuration.
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Layers
Click the Layers button to open the list of available layers in the project.
Layers are defined in the Visualization Editor during the design phase of the project. Each GUI element is assigned exactly to one layer. By default each project contains the layers Background, Default and ReadOnly. Additional layers can be added in the Visualization Editor.
Here on the Configurations page the user's permissions can be defined for each layer.
Functions
Click the Functions button to open the list of available functions.
A function is part of an app from the dashboard. Functions are predefined and can not be added by the user.
The picture shows the function alarmnotification from the Alarms App - the function is enabled for the current configuration.
Workspace variables
Click the Workspace variables button to open the list of available workspace variables.
Workspace variables are defined in the Visualization Editor during the design phase of the project.
As shown in the picture, the variable "WS Variable 1" gets the value "UserIsAdmin" - but this assignment is only valid for the current configuration.
The value of the workspace variable will be evaluated in the visualization during runtime - e.g. for showing or hiding contents.
Page variables
Click the Page variables button to open the list of available page variables. The button is visible when the homepage of the project has a page variable defined.
The page variables definition is done in the Visualization Editor. The value of the page variable will be evaluated in the visualization during runtime - e.g. for selecting contentThis tool publishes projects to the web server, then the project is accessible by the web browser.
Click the Visualization Management icon on the dashboard of the Web Manager to open the Visualization Management app.
Pages
The Visualization Management app consists of the following pages that can be accessed on the left sidebar:
- Projects page: the inventory of visualization projects related to the current server workspace.
- Devices page: configured devices for visualization.
- Users page: assign users to visualization devices.
- Groups page: assign groups to visualization devices.
- Configurations page: set up specific permissions for layers and functions, set visualization workspace and page variables.