Uwedat® Servicetool

The Main-view is the control-center of the application. The main-view is always present after start of the application and will support you with a set of basic functions. The main-view also provides an area for work-views. The work-views will be embedded on demand into the main-view. Each work-view has its own menu-panel with specific menu-controls, which resembles the main menu.

Main-Menu

The main-menu consists of several

buttons. The buttons are used to activate the work-views of the Service-Tool.

Click on the button or the button-label to select a work-view, or navigate with the TAB-key to the approbiate button and press the ENTER-key. If you use the keyboard for navigation, watch the label-color of the buttons. The button with the red label-text has the focus and is waiting for the ENTER-key.

The overview-list shows a short description to each button

Login Button The Login button calls the Login-dialog. You are required to login to the environmental monitoring station before you can use any of the following functions. For more details see Login.

Status-View Button The Status button calls the Status-view. It is recommended to enter this view first, it will show you an comprehensive overview of all relevant events. For more details see Status-View.

Data-View Button The Data-View button calls the Data-view. The Data-view shows the measurement-values. This view contains multiple tables for final-values, raw-values, averages, data-history and data-diagrams. For more details see Data-View .

Station Button The Station button calls a set of configuration tables. The Station-configuration is the working area to setup and configure station-parameters, for instance communication parameters, passwords and alarm conditions. For more details see Station-Configuration .

Devices Button The Devices button calls a set of configuration tables. The Device-configuration is the working area to setup and configure measuring-components-parameters. Use this work-view to install or remove components, to switch on/off individual components and to configure measurement-devices (signal- and conversion-parameters). For more details see Device-Configuration .

Calibration Button The Calibration button calls the Calibration-view. The Calibration-view shows you the history and the results of calibration events. For more details see Calibration-View .

Messages Button The Messages button calls the Message-view. The Message-view is a collection of error-events messages. These detailed informations are usefull for maintenance and data-quality prove. For more details see Message-View .

Commands Button The Commands button calls the control-center for miscellaneous system-functions, for instance setting the time and date, switch on/off the service-mode and for configuration of VMVs. For more details see Command-View .

Exit Button The Exit button closes the application if following conditions are true:

you don't have edited parameters and forgotten to save them. The "dirty-flag" attached to each parameter-table will be asked before closing the application to prevent the lost of maybe important changes to the parameter-set.

no datatransfer between monitoring station and file-system is in execution, if so, the datatransfer is completed before closing the application.

Header

The Header is divided into three areas. Leftside is placed a information-area indicating station-number and station-name of the connected environmental monitoring station. In the middle of the header is placed the title of the currently embedded work-view. Rightside is placed a date/time area which shows you the actual date and time captured from the environmental monitoring station.

The time-format is 24 hours from 00:00 to 23:59
The date-format is DD-MM-YYYY (day-month-year).

Keep in mind: the displayed time is always the local time derived from the environmental monitoring stations internal clock. The displayed time may be different to your PC-time displayed in the task-bar.

Statusline

The Status-line is divided into three sections. The primary section is used to keep you informed with success-messages and other informations, the second section is used for tracing the communication between the Servicetool and the environmental monitoring station, the third section holds a simple progress-bar

Work-Area

The work-area is a container which will be populated with work-views in the course of your work. Imediately after start of the application the work-area is empty - after start of the application you are first required to login to the environmental monitoring station. Use the Login-Button on the main-menu to select the Login-Dialog.

Work-view Example

A typical example of a work-view is the Diagram-View. The Diagram-View is a subsection of the Data-View and shows the measuring-values rendered as data-diagrams.

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To establish a communication link between service-tool and environmental-station you are required to identify yourself as authorized user. This is for security reasons to prevent unauthorized access to the environmental monitoring station.

Description

The Login-Dialog is a modal external dialog-window. A modal window is a window that you cannot leave as long it is visible. You have to finish (or to cancle) the login before you can proceed with other actions. The login is performed in three steps (see the description for detailed information):

Enter the correct station ID

Enter the correct user-password

Login

Station The station ID (identifier) consists of exactly four letters or digits. In case of digits leading zeroes are required! The station ID is not case-sensitive.

Click into the entry-field and enter the station ID. Valid examples are 0003 or ST03.

If you don't know the station ID, skip this entryfield and proceed with the password.
The login-attempt will be invalid, but the environmental monitoring station responses with the correct station ID.

User Password The user password consists of a maximum of eight letters or digits (characters) and a minimum of one character (for security-reasons passwords containing less then 4 characters are not recommended) . Leading numbers are not allowed! The user password is not case-sensitive. The initial user password (factory setting) is 12345678.

Click into the user password-field and enter the user password. A valid example is SEcret_1.

Master Password The master password is analogous to the user-password. The master password gives the supervisor access to additional system functions. For maintainance you don't need the master password! The initial master password (factory setting) is ABCDEFGH.

If required, click into the master password-field and enter the master password.

Login Button Use the Login-button to perform the login. It will takes some seconds to establish the connection to the environmental monitoring station. A successfull login will be prompted in the status-line of the main-view. An invalid login-attempt will keep the Login-dialog alive for a next attempt. There are no restrictions in the number of invalid attempts, so if you don't know the correct password, enjoy the magic of giant permutations.

Logout Button Use the Logout-button to quit a session with the environmental monitoring station. The logout prevents unauthorized access to the environmental monitoring station if you leave your PC unattended.

Keep in mind: an auto-logoff is performed for security-reasons after 30 minutes of inactivity. If you encounter an error-message indicating "Access denied" you have to repeat the login.

Cancel Button Use the Cancel-button to leave the Login-Dialog. Without login you cannot communicate with the environmental monitoring station and therefore most of the Service-Tool functionality is useless. Without login you can only examine and edit previousely saved data-files.

Setup Button The Setup-button is used to configure the communication-device. For detailed information see the following chapter Communication-Setup.