Navigation Zone

The Navigation Zone on the operator dashboard serves two purposes:

• Page navigation — the tabs and buttons can be used to switch between different display pages.

• Alarm counts — each tab and button displays an alarm count for the location it opens, providing an overview of the current alarm conditions.

Note: To enable alarm counts in the Navigation Zone, there are a number of project settings that need to be configured correctly. For more information, see Enable Navigation Zone Alarm Counts.

Page Navigation

The layout of the tabs and buttons is determined by a project's page menu.

Level 1 of the menu sets the overall context for the workspace. The tabs along the navigation section header represent the menu's level 2 entries. The buttons on each tab represent up to 20 lower-level menu entries, displayed from left to right in arrangement determined by the Order property.

Alarm Counts

Every tab and button in the navigation zone supports an alarm count that indicates how many alarms are currently active for equipment homed on the associated page.

By default, the alarm count represents the following:

• The number of active alarms in the highest priority (that is, the priority with the lowest value)

• The number of active alarms in the next highest priority

• The number of active alarms in the third highest priority

• The number of alarms that are currently shelved.

  Note: If required, you can use the parameter [Workspace]NumberOfTopPriorities to display an additional alarm count for the fourth highest priority. For more information, see Add an Additional Alarm Count to the Navigation Zone.

The maximum value that can be displayed for each alarm count is 99. If more than 99 alarms are active in a particular category, "99+" will display. You can confirm the exact number of alarms via a tool tip.

Each value appears to the left of an animated icon that indicates the priority the value represents. These icons are configured via the Small Genie Name property for each alarm priority. For more information, see Configure Display Properties for an Alarm Priority.

A grey bar is used to highlight the tab and button that contain the most recent unacknowledged alarm that is currently in an ON state. The number next to the priority which is most important will also be highlighted.

For more information on how to prepare a project’s menu for the navigation zone of the operator dashboard, see Prepare the Navigation Menu.

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Default Layout