Overview
How are the contents of the Metasys UI organized?
The Metasys UI Help is organized into groups of related functionality. Features that help you locate information are found in the Navigating and Searching section. Features that help you understand current status and problem areas are found in the Widgets and Dashboards section. Features that help you take action to restore order are found in the Commanding and Acting on Alarms and Audits section.
The Navigating and Searching section covers navigation; search; advanced search with reporting, bulk commanding, and bulk modifying capabilities; and equipment filtering.
The Widgets and Dashboards section covers the widgets and dashboards used to learn about problem areas and equipment.
The Commanding and Acting on Alarms and Audits section covers how and where you can command points on equipment, and how to view and acknowledge or discard alarms configured on equipment. This section also covers annotations and the System Activity feature.
The Infrastructure section covers information about the user menu, settings, security, and authorization. You can also learn more about the Dashboards Manager in the Infrastructure section. You can use the Dashboards Manager to customize your Metasys UI dashboards. You can customize the widgets that appear, the order the widgets appear in, and the size of the widgets.
- Graphics Manager is the single point of entry for creating and editing Metasys UI graphics, including Aliased graphics, the Master Layer graphic, and system and custom templates. The Graphics Manager also allows you to view and manage space and equipment associations with all supported graphics.
- Graphics Editor allows you to create and edit Metasys UI graphics.
- Graphics style guide provides best practices and tips on creating Metasys UI graphics.
This Help does not cover configuration of spaces, equipment, and advanced settings. For more information about configuring spaces and equipment, refer to the Metasys SCT Help (LIT-12011964).
How do I search the Metasys UI Help?
Use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+F (for the Microsoft®
Windows® and Google®
Chrome™ operating systems) or 
+ F (for the Apple® operating system)
to open the find bar to locate a specific word or phrase in the Metasys UI Help.
On an Android® phone or tablet device, open Google Chrome and tap the devices Menu button, and then select Find in page. As you type, your search results are highlighted in yellow on the page.
On an Apple device, open the Safari® browser and type the text you want to search for in the address bar. As you type, your search results are grouped into the default search engine and On this Page. You can tap any match from On this page to visit the location with search text highlighted in yellow.
What has changed since the last version of this document?
- Updated information about Metasys UI client technical specifications for computers in Table 2.
- Updated the related documentation in Table 7.
- Added information about Licensing.
- Added Software update notifications, as this is a new feature.
- Updated Accessing the Metasys UI to reflect the option to log in with your organizational account.
- Updated Reporting to include the new present value report option and the new delivery format.
- Added information about the new licensable Fault Detection and Fault Triage features to the Potential Problem Areas widget section, as you can now manage faults with this widget.
- Added information about Creating and deleting objects, as this is a new feature.
- Added information about Extensions, as you can now create alarm and trend extensions in Metasys UI.
- Added information about System Activity, as this is a new feature.
- Added information about the Involvement widget, as this is a new widget.
- Added information about the Calendar widget, as this is a new feature.
- Updated information about the Trend widget (Default Trend) and Custom Trend, as trending was enhanced.
- Updated Alarm Manager and Alarm Monitor to reflect the new network filter option and batch annotate capability.
- Added information about the Trend Study widget and Trend Study Manager, as this is a new feature.
- Updated Cyber Health Dashboard to reflect newly added PDF export capability.
- Updated information about the User menu.
- Updated User Management to include the new Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) feature.
- Updated Remote Notifications to include the new Send Announcement feature.
- Removed references to Internet Explorer, as this web browser is no longer supported for Metasys UI.
- Removed references to RADIUS authentication, as this is no longer supported.