Explorer - Managing Sensors and Calculations


 

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Renaming sensors or calculations

The Resource Brower can be used to rename sensor or calculation entities – simply right clicking in the tree will give to following option…

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This will then present the user with a modal dialog allowing them to rename the sensor/calculation. Clicking “Save” will close the modal dialog and update the sensor/calculation name in all areas of the application…

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Deleting calculations

Deletion of a sensor is not yet possible within the Resource Browser tree, but the deletion of a calculation is. Right clicking on any of these entities will give the following option…

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Users will be directed to the “Connectivity” feature of iTwin IoT to delete a sensor…

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Users can delete calculations, the dialog shown when deleting a calculation will look as follows…

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Bulk Configuring sensors

 

Right-clicking on a Connection or Sensor from the Explorer Resource Management Tree gives users various actionable context menu items. This allows users to edit the configurations of sensors (either individually or in bulk). 

Individually: 

 

In bulk (i.e. when multiple connections or sensors are selected): 

 

Once clicked, Configure opens a modal which renders the available properties for editing. The available fields will differ depending on the chosen connection/sensor type. 

 

Example (1) - a tilt sensor has the fields: 

 

 

Example (2) - a piezometer has the fields: 

 

 

 

Example (3) - a thread connection has the fields: