User Preferences

You can set preferences specific to your use of the Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications. The user preferences you configure are saved to the Platform and applied each time you log into the Platform, based on your user account. Your selections here determine how information appears in the application pages. For example, the format applied to dates or times shown in the application pages will correspond to the locale selection, such as MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YYY for dates.

If you are an Administrator, you can define default settings for some of the user preferences. When a non-administrator changes his or her user preferences, only those pre-selected defaults appear for selection. The user preferences for which you can define defaults are as follows: Locale, Time Zone, Notification Encoding, and Default Application. For example, if you set the locales as English, French, and Japanese, only those appear for selection when a non-administrator edits his or her user preferences for locales.

To open the User Preferences page

From the top of any page in the applications, select Preferences, as shown here:

Procedures from this page

Use the tools on this page to define your preferences when using and viewing information in the applications; change your user password and e-mail address; set defaults for non-administrators; configure your notification style; select to filter notifications for specific assets.

From the Locale list, select your location. If you leave this blank, the locale defaults to GMT.
From the Time Zone list, select the time zone for your location. If you leave this blank, the time zone defaults to GMT.
From the Notification Encoding list, select the default notification character encoding for Notification actions. This selection is important, for example, when viewing notifications (such as e-mail messages) on cell phones that support a specific character set.
From the Default Application list, select the application that should appear each time you log into the applications. By default, this value is blank, which causes the Home page for the applications to appear.

You can limit the number of rows shown in tables within the Applications pages. The Platform defines two types of tables: short and long. Short tables enable you to view available items for selection, view items already selected, and add or remove items from each table. Long tables describe all other paged tables (that is, tables with paging controls) in the Applications.

Important! The table settings made here do NOT apply to the tables on the following pages: View and manage expression rules, View and manage state machines, and View and manage rule timers.

You may want to adjust the values depending upon your available Platform resources and connection speed: showing fewer items results in faster table displays on slower connections.
Type the number of rows of information you want the Platform to show in each "long" table. You can leave the default setting, which is 25 rows.
Type the number of rows of information you want the Platform to show in each "short" table. You can leave the default setting, which is 10 rows.
Click Submit to save your changes to the Platform. The Applications Home page appears and any changes to your User Preferences are applied immediately. If you do not want to save any changes you have made to this page, click Cancel. Any previously submitted savings are applied and the Preferences page closes.

Axeda Applications use information defined for you in the Axeda® Platform; this includes your user name, password, and e-mail address. After logging into the Applications, you can change your password and e-mail address as needed. User group and security settings determine your ability to modify these attributes.

Note: Only Administrators and those Axeda Applications users with authenticated login accounts and privileges to modify user attributes can modify passwords. Contact your Platform administrator if necessary.

Select Edit User Attributes. If this link is not shown, then you are not authorized to change this information.

In the Change your E-mail address and Password page, you can specify a new password and e-mail address, which will apply to your Axeda Applications login and e-mails as well as all other applications that use that authentication.

Password length restrictions are specified by your Platform administrator. There are no restrictions on the types of characters you can use, so special characters such as *, &, %, all numbers, all letters, and so forth can be used in a password. This field is required.

Note: Remember that the password will be case-sensitive, so if you type a password of "NewPassWord" you will need to type the same uppercase and lowercase letters each time you use that password.

If you are an Axeda Applications administrator, you can define the pre-selected default settings that will be available for selection by a non-administrator. For example, you can define the Service application as the default application, and the Configuration and Software Management applications as the other applications available for selection. When a non-administrator selects to change his or her user preferences, only Service, Configuration, and Software Management will be available for selection.

Next to the user preference you want to modify, select Default Values. The Set Default User Preferences page appears with the configuration settings for defining the default user preferences.

Note: Only Administrators or non-admin users with the appropriate privileges can set their default preferences. Contact your Platform administrator if you think there is a problem.

You need to configure how the Platform generates notifications for you: to e-mail addresses or pager addresses. In addition, for alerts (notifications sent by the Platform and viewable in your Application pages), you can select the tones to play and the frequency of those tones.

Select Change Notification Styles.

In the displayed Change Notification Styles page, you specify how you want the Platform to generate notifications intended for you. Notifications can be generated by notification actions, package deployment statuses, alarm conditions, Usage rules, and so on.

By default, if a notification action that is configured to be sent to all users defined for a related asset group is generated, all users defined with privileges to the related asset group receive the notification.

It may be that you do not want to receive notifications for all assets in an asset group and in fact, want to receive notifications for only one or two of the assets. If this is the case, you can specify the assets for which you do not want to receive notifications.

Select Change Notification Filter.

In the displayed Update your excluded assets list page, you can select those assets for which you do not want to receive notifications.