Creating filters

Purpose

By defining filters you can obtain the following advantages:

allow the operator to select what he wants to view in the maintenance list by clicking the name of the filter
(for example, all maintenance alarms in a specific area of the configuration.)
limit the maintenance list to show only those maintenance jobs that fulfil certain conditions (for example, all maintenance alarms acknowledged yesterday).

How to define filters

You define a new filter by selecting one of the two sections in the tree view (Active Maintenance Objects or All Maintenance Objects). Then you click the $images\ico_flt_new.gif$ icon to open the Defining Filters for Maintenance List dialogue.

Give the filter a descriptive name and add the conditions you want the filter to apply to the list.

Protecting filters

You can protect a filter from unauthorised use by checking the Protect box. When enabled, the rights of the current user will be checked and he can only edit the filter, if he has the Can administer right in his profile (user group).

To enable the protection, you must define the relevant user groups, rights and users in the User Administration application.program. Open the User Administration Help file for further information.

The Defining Filters for Maintenance List dialogue

The figure below shows the above dialogue.

For an explanation of the individual items in the dialogue, click the $images\ico_help.gif$ in the upper right hand corner of the dialogue, then click the item you want information about.

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