To access these properties, begin by enabling the Workspace Edit mode by clicking on the small arrow on the top left side of the screen.

Next, do a mouse right-click anywhere in an empty area of the Workspace, then click on Edit from the contextual menu.

The following Panel Properties menu appears.

Description of the settings.

1 – PANEL TITLE: Name of the panel. This name will also be the tab’s name.

2 – WIDTH: Total width (in pixels) of the visible and usable area of the Workspace.For the best viewing results, set this value as close as possible to the width resolution value, in pixels, of the display used to view the workspace. Remember that this display could be a smartphone or tablet computer.

3 – HEIGHT: Total height (in pixels) of the visible and usable area of the Workspace. For the best viewing results, set this value as close as possible to the height resolution value, in pixels, of the display used to view the workspace. Remember that this display could be a smartphone or tablet computer.

4 – SHOW IMAGE: To show, or not, the selected background image.

5 – BACKGROUND IMAGE: Name of the selected image to display in background.

6 – IMAGE SELECT: To browse and select a background image. Most common image file extensions are accepted, like jpg, bmp and png for example. Transparent png images will also work.

7 – IMAGE DELETE: To delete the selected background image.

8 – IMAGE POSITION: One of three possible locations for the selected background image.

Normal:Image anchor location is the top left corner of the Workspace.

Centered: Image anchor location is the center of the Workspace.

Fit: Image is stretched on four sides to cover the full visible area of the Workspace.

9 – TAB COLOR: Color of the panel’s Workspace tab.

10 – BACK COLOR: Background color of the Workspace.

11 – NOTES: Box to add notes of any kind. Just like all of the above settings, any note entered here is saved in the actual Workspace file, not immediately in the Davicom Cortex itself.

12 – EXIT: To exit this menu.

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• Activation & deactivation (appearance/disappearance) of objects (images, text, shapes, lines) based on I/O status
• Change of object color based on I/O status
• Drag, drop, resize, copy, and paste of objects
• Grouped drag, drop, copy, paste of objects
• Grouped edition of objects’ properties (size, color, etc.)
• Rotation of objects in1° increment
• Send-to-front and Send-to back of object in display layers
• Association of objects to any I/O
• Vectorization of objects for lossless resizing
• Hyperlink to a specific Workspace tab from an object
• Use of transparent (cut-out) .png images
• Use of a background image
• Use of common image formats (jpg, gif, png, bmp, svg, etc.)
• Possibility of merging Workspaces when uploading a Workspace into a unit.

To edit or create Workspaces, you must be logged-in to the Davicom Cortex, but it is not required to be in control of the unit. To begin, click on the small arrow located at the top of the left side of the screen: this activates the Edit Mode.

A graphic edition menu slides out from the right side, and a floating toolbar appears.

All the tools and buttons from these two menus are used to edit, create, save, open and merge Davicom Cortex Workspaces. Please see these associated articles for more details:

1 – ADD TAB: Adds a new tab (screen or window) to a Workspace. A Workspace can have multiple tabs, each having its own set of objects, or each showing I/O’s, but in different formats. For example, this can be images (including backgrounds like site location maps), schematic diagrams, emergency phone lists. NOTE: It is important to not have tabs with identical names, as this would block these tabs from merging when loading a Workspaces containing tabs having the same names.

2 – EDIT MODE ACTIVATION / DEACTIVATION: To activate or deactivate the Edit mode.

3 – FLOATING TOOLBAR HIDE / SHOW: To hide or show the floating toolbar (13).

4 – SELECT: To select, move, and resize objects.

5 – ADD SHAPE: To add shapes. Three different shapes are available: circles (ellipsoids) , rectangles and triangles.

6 – ADD LOGIC GATE: To add logic gate symbol. Six different types are available. Note that these logic gates are only a visual representation, they must be associated to a particular I/O for their characteristics to become animated.

7 – DRAW LINE: Draw lines that can then be animated.

8 – ADD TEXT: Adds text.

9 – ADD IMAGE: Adds images.

10 – ADD METER: To add meters. Four different types are available: strip chart, angular, horizontal bar meter or vertical bar meter.

11 – ADD INDICATOR: To add LED-style status indicators.

12 – ADD I/O BOX: To add I/O boxes. To display values, statuses, or to create control buttons.

13 – FLOATING TOOLBAR: Toolbar containing Workspace Save and Load tools. Note that for Undo and Redo actions, it is also possible to use keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl Z (Undo) and Ctrl Y (Redo).

14 – UNDO: To undo the previous action that was performed on the Workspace.

15 – REDO: To redo the previous action (undo or delete) that was performed on the Workspace.

16 – SAVE TO PC: Save the Workspace to the PC. For more information on the mechanics of Workspace displays, locations and how to save and load them, see this article. 

17 – OPEN FROM PC: To open (or load) a Workspace from the PC. For more information on the mechanics of Workspace displays, locations and how to save and load them, see this article.

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Note that the same Workspace can be assigned to several different users, thereby ensuring that all users can see the same information at the same time, if that is a requirement. Also you can assign different Workspaces to the same person, but with different logins (users). This can be useful when you log in with your smart phone versus logging-in with a computer. The view can be adapted to the platform you use when logging-in.

From the Davicom Cortex top menu, go to System > Users. The following Users menu comes up.

Select the user to whom you wish to assign the specific Workspace, then click on the Tool icon (Configuration). You can also do a mouse right-click anywhere on the line listing the user. To assign a Workspace to multiple users at the same time, select all the desired users, then click on the Tool icon, and select the desired Workspace. This also demonstrates the Davicom Cortex unit’s powerful bulk edition capability, available throughout the unit’s menus.

Next, the Users Configuration menu comes up. Under Workspaces, select the Workspace to assign to the user. When done, click on the Save icon.

To verify that the Workspace has been set correctly, log out of the unit and log back in using the proper user account, and check that the desired Workspace loads-up and displays.

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Before setting up a new Workspace in DavLink, make sure that the Workspace you want to set is available from the PC itself (on the local disk or from another storage location or storage device).

To change the default DavLink Workspace that loads-up when connecting to a Davicom Cortex , first connect to a unit, then from the DavLink top menu, go to File > Set Default Workspace.

A window opens, from which you can browse to the Workspace location by clicking on the small Folder icon. Once the desired Workspace is found and selected, click on OK. The newly loaded Workspace will automatically load at the next login.

It is possible to edit and create custom Davicom Cortex Workspaces using DavLink 6. The tutorials already covering this process using a web browser type of connection are quite similar and should allow you to create and edit workspaces easily. To learn more about this subject, see the Introduction to Workspace Edition, Creation and Saving articles.

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• Bulk edit grouped graphic elements –
• Rotate graphic elements at 1° increments
• Activate (turn on) or deactivate (turn off) two images based on an I/O’s Normal and Active states
• Set-to-front and Set-to back stack levels for images, graphic elements, and text
• Associate any I/O with any image, graphic element, or text
• Use of the most standard image formats (jpg, gif, png, bmp, svg, etc.)
• Use transparent (“cut-out”) images
• Use a background image
• Resize of graphic elements and images, with no loss of quality (vectorization)
• Simple and easy “Drag & Drop” and “Copy – Paste”

To edit workspaces, you must be logged-in to a Davicom Cortex unit, but it is not required to be in control of the unit.

To create or edit a workspace, click on the small arrow found on the left side of the screen: this will activate the Edit Mode. An edition menu will appear. This menu contains the tools you need to built workspaces.

Once you have added an object, right-click on it and then open the Object Edit menu. You can then complete the fields as required, the most important one being the ID field where you must enter the Input ID of the reading in the Davicom Cortex that you wish to connect to this graphic object.

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Under Workspaces, from the drop down menu, select the desired Workspace to delete. As example, we select the one currently stored at location 4 (1W4). When ready, click on the Delete icon (trash container).

Before deleting a Workspace, a warning message will come up. Select Delete to move on with deletion, or click Cancel to keep the Workspace.

To verify that the Workspace has been properly deleted, look in the Workspace storage list under the proper Workspace location number.

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You will be asked if you wish to merge this new Workspace with the one already being used. If you answer yes, the new Workspace will be added as new Tabs in the browser’s display.

After being asked if you wish to merge your Workspace, you will be asked to select the file that you wish to open from your computer’s file browser. Select the file and it will then be loaded into the browser for display.

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1. To examine it, if, for example, you don’t remember what it looks like or what is its purpose)
2. To edit it,
3. Or to merge it with another Workspace.

To examine a Workspace

To look at a Workspace, connect to a Davicom Cortex unit and enable the Edit mode (for more information about the Edit mode, see the following article: Graphic edition menu explained).

Next, from the floating toolbar, click on Open From PC.

A Workspace Merge warning message will come up. Since you only want to look at the Workspace, click No.

A browser window opens, and from there you can browse to the Workspace location (local disk, USB stick, LAN storage device, etc.). Once the Workspace is selected, it is automatically loaded and appears on screen. At this point, the newly loaded Workspace is only loaded in your web browser, so there is no danger to damage it or erase it, and it is the same for any of the Workspaces that are loaded in the unit.

When you are done with the viewing, disable the Edit mode, and log out of the unit.

To edit a Workspace

For information on how to edit a Workspace, please see the following article: Introduction to Workspace edition, creation and saving.

To merge a Workspace

The merging of Davicom Cortex Workspaces requires you to be connected to a unit. The actual merging takes place in the web browser on your computer, but the two sources are the computer and the Davicom Cortex unit. It is only possible to merge an external Workspace (from the computer) with one that is already loaded in a unit.

To merge an external Workspace with one that is already in a unit, walk through the first three steps given at the top of this article, and when you get the Workspace Merge warning message, click on Yes.

A browser window opens, and from there you can browse to the Workspace location (local disk, USB stick, LAN storage device, etc.). Once the Workspace is selected, it is automatically loaded and merged with the one currently being displayed. At this point, the newly merged Workspace is only loaded in your web browser. The merging action consists of adding all the display tabs (if many are present) from the loaded Workspace into the Workspace that is already being displayed.

IMPORTANT: When merging two workspaces having multiple tabs, no two tabs can have the same name, otherwise these tabs will not merge. Before doing a merge, check the two Workspaces separately to check the tab names, and rename any tabs having redundant names using the Edit mode, and then do the merge. In the advent of trying to merge Workspaces containing identical names, a warning message will appear.

After the merge, if needed, you can edit the new Workspace, and when everything is OK, you must save this Workspace on your computer. Once it is ready to use on the Davicom Cortex, the Workspace must be uploaded to the unit. For information on how to upload a Workspace in a Davicom Cortex, please see the article How to upload a Workspace into a Davicom Cortex.

When you are done, disable the Edit mode, and log out of the unit.

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Next, in an empty area of the Workspace, do a mouse right-click, and select Edit from the menu.

In the Properties box that comes up, under Panel Title, set the new name, then click on the Exit arrow.

The tab renaming action is part of the Workspace editing process, and this process takes place solely in the computer’s web browser, not in the Davicom Cortex itself. Therefore, for the new tab name to be stored and become effective in the Davicom Cortex, the Workspace must first be saved on the PC, and then uploaded (reloaded) into the unit. For more information on how to do this, see the article How to upload a Workspace into a Davicom Cortex.

If you try to disconnect from the unit without having previously saved the Workspace, a warning message will offer you the possibility to save it before the disconnection.

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From the Davicom Cortex top menu, go to System > Workspaces. The Workspace menu screen comes up. The Rename or Delete tab is already selected.

Under Workspaces, from the drop down menu, select the desired Workspace to rename. As example, we select the one stored at location 4 (1W4).

Under New Name, enter the new name to give to the Workspace, then click on the Disk (save) icon. The renaming is completed.

To verify that the Workspace has been properly renamed, look in the Workspace storage list under the proper Workspace location number.

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