Generic Settings

About 6 min

All the components and groups share a set of common settings that are accessible through the edit control panel on the left sidebar.
Navigate to the Settings tab to access all the available options for the currently selected component.

Note

If no component is selected, only the Workspace settings are available and a No Component Selected message is displayed.
The Settings menu is only shown when you have a component selected.

Workspace

These settings are applicable to the whole view.

Grid Properties

The grid is provided for convenience when developing dashboards as visual guides and snapping capability.

By default the work area grid is enabled and can be customized or even disabled in this menu.

Property Name	Description
Grid Color	Color of the grid
Grid Size	Size of the grid step
Snap to Grid	Enable/Disable snapping to the grid
Show Grid Lines	Show the grid as lines
Show Grid Dots	Show the grid as dots

To pick color of your interest

To change color for specific visual property, click on the color box next to property description. The color picker dialog will be displayed.

Pick the color of interest. The video below shows how to choose a solid, gradient or theme color.

You can add Gradient Stops by double clicking and to remove - by pulling it up.

To close the color-picker dialog - click on the property color box (Step 1).

Closing color-picker dialog

Clicking on the workspace area instead of Settings Tab area -
component settings will disappear since component focus will be lost.

Align Controls

The Align controls provides a means to align and distribute selected objects on the display.

Align Objects

You can align several components horizontally using the Align-left, Align-center or Align-right controls
You can align several components vertically using the Align-top, Align-vertical-center or Align-bottom controls

Distribute Objects

You can distribute several components on the vertical/horizontal axis by selecting them (select at least 3 components) and pressing Align-vertical/Align-horizontal
You can make all the selected components the same width/height by selecting them and pressing Adjust Width/Adjust Height

Tips

Hold the Ctrl button to select several components. The eldest component is used as a reference.

Anchor Points Options

The anchor points are eight squares around an object that allow you to resize the object. The anchor point options allow you to define the appearance of the anchor points.

Property Name	Description
Reference Point Color	Sets the color of the reference point (see Rotation and Position for more details)
Anchor Points Color	Sets the color of the rest of the seven anchor points
Point Options Color	Sets the color of the point options (only for Line and Bezier Curve)
Show Point Options	Show/Hide the point options

Locked View Options

These options define the appearance of the component border in the locked view for the selected component.

Property Name	Description
Active Border Fill	Sets the fill color of the border
Active Border Width	Sets the width of the border

Variable

Every component has a unique variable name. This variable name can be used to reference the component in multi-state configurations and other scripts.
On creation, every component is given a default name. This can be overwritten to be more user-friendly. To do so simply overwrite the value in the variable input field.

Arrange / Remove

Send Backward - move object one layer down
Bring Forward - move object one layer up
Send to Back - place object under all layers
Bring to Front - place object above all layers
To send/bring objects to the front/back use the first four buttons.
Any set of components can be deleted by either using the button or delete/del keyboard keys.

Rotation and Position

Reference Anchor Point - allows you to select one of the anchor points as a reference so that you can set an Angle (clockwise) of incline relative to this point. By default the reference anchor point is the top left corner. You can also rotate the component by dragging one of the yellow corner points.
You can set the position of the component by setting the X and Y coordinates relative to theReference Anchor Point and the top-left corner of the work area.
You can drag any of the anchor points to change the width and height of the component, or you can set it manually by editing the Width and Height boxes.
Set Lock Aspect Ratio so that while changing width and height, the component width to height ratio stays the same
Transform allows you to view the component as a mirror or a reflection of itself

Actions

Actions or multi-states are programmable conditional states handled by user-generated code.

Note

Actions that have script handlers are marked with a circle
OnData
in the top right corner.

The currently supported actions are described in the table below:

Action	Trigger
OnCreate	When the component is created
OnFocus	When the component is selected
onClick	When the component is clicked or the selection is changed
onData	Each time the data changes for assigned channels
onTick	20 times per second
onDblClick	On mouse double click
onHover	When the mouse is over the component (and not when the mouse is not)

Title

This section configures the title of your component.

Property Name	Description
Show Title	Show/hide the title line
Height	Height of the title line
Text	Text itself
Background Color	Background color of the title line
Text Color	Text color of the title line
Text Align	Alignment of the text within the title line: Left, Center, Right

Pin Options

All components can receive data through pins; however, the Tree and Table components can also output data to feed other components. You can establish these connections between components in two ways: the Actions menu (refer to Generic Settings) or using the pins feature.

To connect the table with the pins feature to other components, follow these steps:

Pin a Connector to one of 8 available connection points:
Connect the Connector to another component
Choose an option from the corresponding and pin's drop-down menu. The table and tree components can send data to other components (Output Binding) and receive data (Input Binding).

Color legend for pins:

Symbol	Function
	Bound Input Pin
	Bound Output Pin
	Unbound Pin

Each pin offers the following options in the drop-down menu:

all (output): transfers all channels
selected (output): transfers only selected channels
isSelected (output): transfers True if the component is selected
enabled (input): enables or disables the component based on the value read from pin

Please refer to Connector page for more details on how to use pins and connectors.

Attribute Mapping

When an asset is assigned as a channel, IOTA Vue allows you to map only necessary attributes to the component. This is done via Attribute Mapping, which exists for every asset channel.
In fact, Attribute Mapping is tied to the template of the asset. You can edit or remove the selected Attribute Mapping.

Attribute Mapping Settings

Note

This section is shown in the component settings only if there is an asset mapped to the component.

Properties

Using the Attribute Mapping Dialog you can add attributes to the current mapping and change their properties:

Attribute Mapping Dialog

Add attributes to the current mapping one by one with the Add button or all at once with the Add All button
To hide an attribute click on Toggle Visibility
To access to Attributes properties click on Properties
To save the attribute mapping (without adding the current channel) press Train Only
To save the attribute mapping and add the current channel press Train and Add
To exit the screen without saving your changes, press Close

Global Time Control

To activate the Global Time Control panel click on Global Time Control Settings button in the upper area of the View:

Additionally, you can configure the Global Time Control option in Settings for every component on the current display.

Use Component as Global Time Control : if enabled, the component is able to set the time context for all components on the current display.
Ignore Global Time Control : when enabled, the option allows the component to function independent of global time set elsewhere.

The example below demonstrates the usage of the Global Time Control panel and how the value changes in the space of an hour:

Channels

The Channels section lists data that is assigned/mapped onto the component.
In this menu, you can change the data value color, adjust the display properties and un-assign or remove the data from the component.

Properties

The properties menu for Channels allows you:

to modify the Label of the DataSource
to set UOM, lower and upper values
to choose number format and displayed digits
to adjust the line formatting for trend line components
to configure the additional regression lines that can be plotted for supported components

Hotkeys

PC Key	Mac Key	Function
Del	Del	Remove selected text/Component(s)
Ctrl + S	Ctrl + S	Save View
Ctrl + L	Ctrl + L	Lock/Unlock View
Ctrl + C	Ctrl + C	Copy selected text/Component(s)
Ctrl + V	Ctrl + V	Paste selected text/Component(s)
Ctrl + X	Ctrl + X	Cut selected text/Component(s)
Ctrl + Z	Ctrl + Z	Undo an action
Ctrl + F	Ctrl + F	Search in a View
Ctrl + A	Ctrl + A	Select all Component(s) on a View