So let's take some time and
talk about how you can deploy
these displays once you've built them.
When you know the new display in CoreSight,
it gets assigned a generic name. So the first thing that is always a good idea
to do is to give it a unique name that means something about what you are
looking at. So for this particular display,
I might call it boiler display
or boiler trends or something like that.
So double click.
I'm going to just type in
boiler trends. And when I hit
enter, you'll notice that the
URL for this particular display updates.
So this is now a unique URL.
Each display with PI CoreSight gets its own URL.
So you can actually take these URLs
and copy them and paste them in emails
or chat windows and share them with your colleagues.
Or you can even, if you had a
read-only display that was something that everybody wanted to
look at all the time, you might even make that a link on your homepage or something like that.
But there is a couple of steps
that you have to take in order to make
this shareable with your other users.
The first step is you have to make it public. Now this
display is already public. And there is two ways to
make it public or to remove it from being public.
The first way is by clicking the drop-down arrow next to the
display name, you have a check box here.
And if you take the public off, then you are the only person
who can see this display. If you want to share this with others,
then of course you have to enable public.
And when you do that, you'll see the little globe icon is here.
Now if I click on the PI CoreSight
homepage link, boiler trends
now has a little globe. So it is a public display.
Again, I'll show you. We'll make a new
display and we'll call it cracking process.
And we'll make a table. This is a
brand new display, it just has some information
about the cracking process.
I'll then just give it a name.
If I want to make this public,
I can click the drop down and click the public
button. And voila, it's public. Now there is another way to do that.
If I go to the CoreSight homepage,
there is a button called display management.
And when I click on that, I have the ability to
make cracking process public from here.
I can also make it read only. You might've seen that in
the drop down previously as well. By default,
when you are sharing a display with
other people and you've made it public, it's already read-only for
them. They can't change it. But it's not read only for you.
So if you want to go back in and make other changes, those changes will be preserved.
If however you want to make a display
that is a static display, that no matter
how you interact with it, it always comes back up the same
way, you'll want to make that read only for yourself
as well. And you can do that here or you can
do that in the drop down next to the display name.
From this display management screen,
you can also delete any
display that you own. And you can do that just by
clicking the display name. If I want to get rid of cracking process,
I can click it here and click the little X.
And now it is actually no longer.
So we go back into boiler
trends. I never ever clicked save.
So if we go into one of these boilers, for example,
and we get a couple of pieces of information,
and we drag them onto the screen
here as values,
So now we have
5 values and 2 trends.
I'm not clicking the save button. I'm going to the CoreSight
homepage. I'm going back to boiler trends, the display
that we were just looking at. You'll note that it
remembered my changes. If I come up here and make this
read only for myself and add a few
more pieces of information,
maybe we go back to a different
boiler -- boiler 235 and get
burner, fuel,
gas flow and water.
I'll put them
here as values. So now we have
9 values on the screen. It's
read only. It's not going to remember those new 4 values.
If I go back to the homepage, boiler trends.
OK, so now this is what I had clicked and saved as read only.
I didn't actually save anything, but
after I hit read only, it's not allowing
any other changes to the display for permanent use.
Now what if I want to interact with somebody else's
display? For example, here is a display, gauge
and trend that I did not build. One of my colleagues built this. And if I click
it, you'll notice up at the
top here it does say read only. Now I can
interact with this however I want to. If I want to
zoom in on the trend, or if I want to lock it down.
If I want to add some of my
information in from the cracking process. Maybe I want to
add a compressor here
in a table. I want to make some changes here to this display.
No matter what changes I make,
because it's read only, it won't remember them. I can interact with
this. I can do whatever analysis I want. I can take his trend
and add it to my cart.
I could certainly also do that also.
Boiler 209 trend.
But none of these changes that I've made,
aside from the cart, are going to be remembered because
this is read only. So if I go back to the homepage and
look at gauge and trend, you'll see that it didn't remember those changes.
So what I can do is
I can make the changes that I want, and
add something else onto the screen here.
And the way to preserve that, is I have to
rename this display.
So this is gauge
table and trend.
When I hit enter,
now it has a new
URL. It's no longer public,
but it's also no longer read only. So now I
can go ahead and share this with other people or I can keep this for myself.
But this is how I can interact with other people's
displays. When I go back to the homepage, the original
gauge and trend display is still there. I
haven't impacted that in any way. So that's a little bit
about how you can deploy these CoreSight displays once you've built them.