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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.
Toolbar functions
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List of projects
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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, users or groups can be assigned to a device and the permissions and access rights can be configured.
The list on the left hand side shows all defined devices. The form on the right hand side shows the properties for the selected device.
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Shows details of a connected web client. The client can be disconnected.
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List of devices
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Shows the number of currently opened connections followed by the maximum number of connections.
1/∞ means currently 1 connection and in total no limitation of connections.
1/3 means currently 1 connection and in total 3 connections are allowed.
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Form of device
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"on": define the maximum number of currently connected devices.
"off": the number of currently connected devices is not limited.
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Name of the project for the device to be assigned to (mandatory).
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 hand side shows all users defined in User Management. The list on the right hand side shows the defined devices.
To authorize a user to access a device select the device on the right side.
List of users
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List of devices
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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 all groups defined in User Management. The list on the right hand side shows the defined devices.
To authorize a group to access a device select the device on the right side.
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List of devices
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Configurations
Click the Configurations button 
on the left-side menu of the Visualization Management app to open the Configurations page.
A configuration is an extension to the device/user/project settings as described before. It is used to define access permissions granularly on layers and functions.
A configuration has to be unique per device, per user/group and per project. Note: only the project is mandatory, the device and user/group are optional.
The list on the left hand side shows configurations. The form on the right hand side shows the properties of the configuration.
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List of configurations
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Form of configuration
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Device
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Layers
Click the Layers button to open the list of available layers in the project.
Layers will be 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 and Default . Additional layers can be added in the Visualization Editor.
Here on the Configurations - Layers page the user's permissions can be defined for each layer.
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"full": full acccess to the visualization objects on that layer.
"readonly": the visualization objects on that layer are displayed but can not be changed.
"invisible": the visualization objects on that layer are not visible.
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.
List of functions
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"true": allow access to the function..
"false": deny access to the function.
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.
A workspace variable is available in the whole workspace of the project.
List of workspace variables
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Value of the workspace variable.
Page variables
Click the Page variables button to open the list of available page variables. The button is only 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 content.
List of page variables
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This 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.