Floors and Floor plans
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Navigate to the Floors section to see a full list of the Building's Floors. You can create new ones with the blue button, or edit/delete an existing one via the Pen icon in the Manage section.
Once you click on the Pen button you will be taken to the particular Floor section. You will see the familiar screen (similar to the Main Building View) with the devices listed by categories, which you can manipulate the same way you can via the Main Building View.
What is interesting here is that you can add a floor plan. A distinct functionality that only exists on a Floor level (Buildings, Spaces and Rooms don't have it). Click on the Floor Plan button to be taken to the screen where you can import a Floor Map
If a Floor plan has not been added previously you will be greeted by the following screen where you can click on the blue button to upload a new Floor plan file.
Locate your image file and select it. It will be imported and shown on the screen. There is the image of the floor itself and a list of all devices that are currently in the Building (respectively separated as they are on different levels).
Adding a device is as simple as dragging it from the Device list barn on the right. Position it over the area it is installed/is to be installed.
Let us look at an example set of devices spread over a floor to better understand the capabilities of the Floor planner tool.
Once a device has been positioned you can freely move it around. Devices that have already been deployed on the floor are grayed out in the Device list
On the lower left there is a Filter button that lets you show/hide selected devices.
If you double-click on any device in the view it will open its Device settings page in the Right sidebar. This is where you select which parameters to be displayed, whether they are visible all the time, or only when you hover over the device, etc.
Devices that are online are marked with a Green dot on their icon
Once you are happy with the arrangement of the devices, the data to be displayed and its location you can save the plan via the button at the top right.
The Settings bar to the right will disappear and you will be left with the device view. The Floor plan is a very convenient feature for identifying a particular device if you know its location in the building, you can quickly navigate to it and check on its stats or just whether it is online or not.
It is also helpful in controlling devices. If you double-click on a device its report card is displayed that also has a Control Device button, which when pressed takes you to the Control tab for the selected device (same as navigating through the Building/Floor/Space/Room screen). This is a very useful feature for example for maintenance staff that is on-site and wants to quickly check on a device and/or adjust settings.
Now that we have Floors covered, lets move to the smaller entities (Spaces, Rooms) and how to assign devices on these lower levels.
