Note: The Data Entry action applies to all assets of the model(s) selected in the Models for action page. You can use this action for Axeda® Gateway, Axeda® Connector, Axeda® IDM Agents, and for "smart" mobile or fixed wireless asset models.
Data Entry actions (Category: Enterprise UI actions) enable users of the Axeda® Service application to write values to one or more data items from the Actions module of the Asset dashboards for the assets to which the users have privileges. The Select Data Items for Action page shows the data items defined within all selected models. From this page, you select the data items for this action, or remove data items from the action. After selecting data items, you can define constraints for the acceptable values for the selected data items. For example, if you select an analog data item, you can specify a valid range of 50 through 100. For a string data item, you can specify the minimum and maximum number of characters to accept.
When a Service application operator selects to run this action, the Platform prompts the user to select the data items and specify values to write to the asset (and/or the Platform). When the operator clicks Submit, any values specified for the selected data items are written to the related assets and/or to the Platform.
Note: Data Entry actions
can be run only from the Service application at the discretion of the Service application operator. They cannot be associated with business
rules.
Any data items configured as Read Only, Not Visible, or Not Stored in the
Model wizard, data items page
do not appear in the list of data
items.
The tables show the following information for each data item:
o Name - of the data item
o Alias - any alias defined for this data item
o Type - data type for the data item: analog (double format), digital (Boolean format), or string (alphanumeric format).
1. In
the table of Available Data Items, select the data items you wish to select
for this Data Entry action. If a data item you want does not appear in
this list, you may need to configure that data item in the Model
wizard page.
To select all data items in the table, select the check box in the column
heading.
Notes: If you selected multiple
models, only data items available to all the selected models appear for
selection in this page. For example, if you select modelA and modelB,
only data items available in both modelA and modelB appear in the list.
Data items available in only one of the models are not shown.
In addition, any Read Only, Not Visible, or Not Stored data items (as defined
in the Model wizard, data items page)
do not appear in the list of data
items.
2. Click Add Checked. (To select all data items to which you have privileges and for the selected models, click Add All.)
3. If you need to remove data items from the data entry action, select the data items in the Selected Data Items table and then select Remove Checked. To remove all selected data items, select Remove All.
When you are finished, click Next to configure the data constraints (for String values or for analog ranges)or data entry options) or click Finish if you are done modifying this action. If you click Cancel and continue canceling, all information configured in this wizard is removed.
o The maximum number of rows supported for returning Platform search results for this type of table is defined in your user preferences, Items Per Page setting (Long table or Short table).
o Use the table navigation tools to view different pages and information in the table.
o Use
(Refresh
link) beside the table navigation tools to refresh the page with the latest
Platform results. (Browser Refresh tools do not update the table.)