Configuring the Display of Network Message Properties

in Capital Systems Modeler

You can configure (customize) which network message properties display for mapped, functional messages in Capital Systems Modeler. You can also configure what names are displayed for standard attributes of network messages, and map network message property values from Capital Signal Modeler to message attributes in Capital Systems Modeler.

Procedure

1. Open the config directory of your installation.

2. Rename the file systems_message.json.example to systems_message.json (that is, remove .example from the name).

3. Open it in an editor.

4. Determine how you want to edit the file. If you want to...

Do the following:

Configure which properties display on the Name Selection dialog box when mapping messages. Note These properties display after the standard attributes (Name, Revision, Description, Short Description) in the dialog box. The properties also display in the Properties tab of a properties dialog box for a mapped message.

For screenshots, see Example 1: Network Message Properties on Name Selection Dialog Box in the Examples section below in this topic. Note These changes also apply to the Select a Message dialog box when selecting the network message to which a network signal is associated.

Find the properties section in the file.

Add an entry for each property. See Example 1: Network Message Properties on Name Selection Dialog Box below. In each entry: The “name” value is the property name in Capital Signal Modeler (Status and Length [Bit] in the example).

The “VisibleInCapture” value specifies whether it is visible in Capital Systems (true) or not (false).

The “sortIndex” value specifies the order in which the properties display after the Short Description in the Name Selection dialog box. Note This sort order does not apply to the Properties tab of a properties dialog box.

Caution The value used for the name must be identical to the name value specified for that property in the webclient/configuration/dictionary/messageproperties.json file in your Capital installation. In addition, you must ensure that you specify a different SortIndex value for each property column.

Configure the displayed names of standard attributes (Name, Revision, Description, Short Description) for network messages on the Name Selection dialog box when mapping messages. For screenshots, see Example 2: Network Message Attribute Names on Name Selection Dialog Box in the Examples section below in this topic. Note These changes also apply to the Select a Message dialog box when selecting the network message to which a network signal is associated.

Find the displayNames section in the file.

Add an entry for each standard Capital Signal Modeler attribute whose name you want to be different in the dialog box. See Example 2: Network Message Attribute Names on Name Selection Dialog Box below. In each entry: The first value is the attribute name in Capital Signal Modeler (Name, Short Description, and Revision in the example).

The second value is the display name you want in the dialog box (Msg Name, Msg Revision, Msg Short Description in the example). Note There is no entry for Description in the example but it displays with an unmodified name anyway.

Map network message property values from Capital Signal Modeler to message attributes in Capital Systems Modeler. Note The property value displays on the Attributes tab of the properties dialog box.

For screenshots, see Example 3: Mapped Network Message Attribute Values in the Examples section below in this topic.

Find the attributesNames section in the file.

Add an entry for each Capital Signal Modeler property value that you want to map to a message attribute in Capital Systems Modeler. See the Example 3: Mapped Network Message Attribute Values below. In this entry: The attrName value is the message attribute name in Capital Systems Modeler (Bitsize in the example).

The mappedProperty value is the message property name in Capital Signal Modeler (Length [Bit] in the example). Note In the example, you can see how the Length [Bit] property value of 8 has mapped to the Bitsize attribute.

5. Save the file.

Results

The system applies the changes when you next start Capital Systems Modeler.

Examples

This section contains three examples:

• Example 1: Network Message Properties on Name Selection Dialog Box

• Example 2: Network Message Attribute Names on Name Selection Dialog Box

• Example 3: Mapped Network Message Attribute Values

Description	Screenshot
Network message properties in Capital Signal Modeler	You want the properties Length [Bit] and Status to appear in Capital Systems Modeler.
properties section in systems_message.json file
Network message columns in Name Selection dialog box in Capital Systems Modeler	The columns Status and Length [Bit] appear after the standard attributes (Name, Revision, Description, Short Description).
Properties tab of properties dialog box for mapped message in Capital Systems Modeler	The rows Length [Bit] and Status appear on the Properties tab.

Description	Screenshot
Network message attributes in Capital Signal Modeler	You want to add the string Msg in front of Name, Revision, and Short Description in Capital Systems Modeler.
displayNames section in systems_message.json file
Network message columns in Name Selection dialog box in Capital Systems Modeler	Description does not have Msg in front of it because you did not add an entry for it in the systems_message.json file.

Description	Screenshot
Network message properties in Capital Signal Modeler	You want the Length [Bit] value (8 in this case) to carry through to Capital Systems Modeler.
attributeNames section in systems_message.json file
Mapped value on Attributes tab of properties dialog box in Capital Systems Modeler

Parent Topic:

Networks in Capital Systems Modeler

Related Topics

• Name Selection Dialog Box (for Message)

• Select a message Dialog Box

Capital Systems Modeler User Guide, 2512.2606

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