Supervisor History View Wizard for Site Controller Data Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for viewing historical data from multiple site controllers are inefficient, requiring users to browse long lists and lack support for saving selections, necessitating repetitive data point selection processes.
Innovation Solution
The Opus supervisor enhances user interface workflow by configuring site XCM controllers with control entity definitions, history extensions, and template features, allowing users to select and save groups or categories of sites and controllers, reducing the need for repetitive data point selection and enabling efficient viewing of historical data across hundreds of sites.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users browse long lists of sites and controllers to select data points, then complete data point selection is achieved, but workflow efficiency deteriorates and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures control entity definitions, history extensions, and template features that automatically organize and categorize data points. When users need to view historical data, the selection process is significantly reduced because the data is already structured into meaningful groups and categories, eliminating the need to manually browse through unorganized long lists of sites and controllers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediate selection mechanisms including selection boxes for groups/categories of sites and controllers, and template features that act as mediators between the user and the raw data. These intermediaries provide structured navigation layers that reduce the complexity of data point selection, allowing users to drill down from broad categories to specific data points without encountering the full scope of available data at once.
2Ease of operation
If users manually select data points without saving options, then flexibility in selection is maintained, but repetitive selection processes increase operation complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides save functionality that stores previously configured data point selections and viewing parameters. This preliminary action of saving allows users to reuse selections across different sessions, reducing the need to repeatedly perform the same selection process and thereby improving ease of operation while managing complexity through automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements copying capabilities that allow users to replicate existing data point selections and viewing configurations. Instead of manually recreating the same selection process, users can copy saved selections or templates and apply them to new queries, significantly reducing operational complexity and improving ease of use.
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AI summary
An approach for selecting points of archived history data for viewing. The approach may relate to a user interface workflow of selecting points. Site controllers may be configured using control entity definitions, history extensions, point group naming and template features of a supervisor. The supervisor may provide for selection of groups or categories of sites and controllers within selected sites using selection boxes. This may permit a user to quickly refine site selection by, for example, filtering by group, site category, and a refined site list box. Once a site, the controllers and desired point groups and other appropriate items have been selected, the user may proceed to view historical data for the selected sites and controller points.