The NETx BMS Core Studio is divided into different areas. The following short overview will describe them.
Figure 3.1.: NETx BMS Core Studio - Areas
- Program Bar - It shows the name of the actual opened workspace and its online state.
- Menu Bar - The user can access all menu commands here.
- Tool Bar - Provides the most important commands in one click.
- Info Bar - Gives the user a short overview about the server state.
- Project Tree - Shows the visualization projects and the defined BMS Clients of the current workspace.
- Gateways - Within this window, the actual state of the different gateways is shown.
- Cells - Here the item values can be changed.
- Main Working Area - The "Item Tree", configuration tables and script files will appear here to be viewed or edited.
- Telegrams - Incoming and outgoing telegrams to the field layer can be monitored here.
- Properties - The properties of a server item can be viewed in this area in detail.
- Graph - View the development of the values of any server item here.
- System Messages - The log output of the server will be displayed in this area.
- Status Bar - this shows compact overview about the state of the server and its components.
In the following sections the above introduced areas will be described further and in higher detail. Additional masks (e.g. BACnet Explorer or ETS Converter) can be found at the end of this section.