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Creating a script for an animated display item

Animated display items are animated by a user-defined script. MainView Middleware Monitor provides a script editor as an aid to writing and validating scripts. Scripts apply conditions to attribute data values that, when TRUE cause the item to become animated.

Display items that can be scripted are:

Each animated display item has a range of animations any one or more of which the script triggers. For example, the animated rectangle has two animations: change fill color and blink. If, for example, a certain attribute data value reaches a specified amplitude, the rectangle can be scripted to change color and/or blink.

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Views-and-dashboards

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To create a script for an animated display item

  1. Right-click on the animated display item and select Properties….
  2. Click on the Scripts tab.
  3. If necessary, click New to insert a blank script.
  4. Open the Script Editor by clicking the Edit column (…) on the scripts row.
  5. To filter the attribute list, enter filtering text in the Filter list field.
  6. Create conditional statements by direct entry in the script field and/or by dragging and dropping (or double-clicking) attributes, operators, and attribute values into the Script text area.
  7. Click Validate to validate the script syntax.
  8. Click OK to close the editor. The script appears in the script column of the selected script row.
Success

Multiple similar animated display items: If you are placing the same animated display item on a view or dashboard, but want to associate each with different objects, create and script one animated item, copy and paste it, and reconfigure the association or scripts, if necessary.

Success

Copy and paste the script into a text editor with a search and replace feature. Paste the edited script back into the script text area and validate it.

Warning

Note

For those scripted objects that support assignment of a topic (currently labels and text fields), format specifiers can be embedded into the Text field of a script. These specifiers insert values related to the topic into the displayed text when the script evaluates to TRUE. Supported format specifiers include:

  • %t – physical type path
  • %T – unresolved type path
  • %i – physical instance path
  • %I – unresolved instance path (physical or logical)
  • %a – physical instance name
  • %A – artifact base name (logical only)
  • %v – attribute value
  • %V – attribute value label
  • %u – user name of the signed-in user


 

 

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MainView Middleware Monitor 9.0