Networks in Capital Systems Modeler

Configuring the Display of Network Signal Properties

in the Name Selection Dialog Box

You can configure (customize) the columns displayed for network signals in the Name Selection dialog box when selecting a network signal to map to a functional signal. By default, the dialog box displays the name, revision, description, and short description for each signal, but you can display other properties from Capital Signal Modeler too. You can also configure what names are displayed for standard attributes of network signalss, and map network signal property values from Capital Signal Modeler to signal attributes in Capital Systems Modeler.

Procedure

Open the config directory of your installation.
Rename the file systems_signal.json.example to systems_signal.json (that is, remove .example from the name).
Open it in an editor.
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 signals. 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 signal.

For screenshots, see Example 1: Network Signal Properties on Name Selection Dialog Box in the Examples section below in this topic.

Find the properties section in the file.

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

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

The “PersistinCapture” value specifies whether the system propagates this property from network signals to functional signals. See Configuring Which Signal Properties Are Propagated from Capital Signal Modeler for further details about the impact of this.

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/functionalsignalproperties.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 signals on the Name Selection dialog box when mapping messages. For screenshots, see Example 2: Network Signal Attribute Names on Name Selection Dialog Box in the Examples section below in this topic.

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 Signal Attribute Names on Name Selection Dialog Box below. In each entry: The first value is the attribute name in Capital Signal Modeler (Name and Short Description in the example).

The second value is the display name you want in the dialog box (Sig Name and Sig Short Description in the example). Note There is no entry for Revision and Description in the example but they display with unmodified names anyway.

Map network signal property values from Capital Signal Modeler to signal 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 Signal 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 signal attribute in Capital Systems Modeler. See the Example 3: Mapped Network Signal Attribute Values below. In this entry: The attrName value is the signal attribute name in Capital Systems Modeler (Multiplexed in the example).

The mappedProperty value is the signal property name in Capital Signal Modeler (Multiplexed in the example). Note In the example, you can see how the Multiplexed property value of TRUE has mapped to the Multiplexed attribute in Capital Systems Modeler.

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 Signal Properties on Name Selection Dialog Box
Example 2: Network Signal Attribute Names on Name Selection Dialog Box
Example 3: Mapped Network Signal Attribute Values

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

Description	Screenshot
Network signal attributes in Capital Signal Modeler	You want to add the string Sig in front of Name and Short Description in Capital Systems Modeler.
displayNames section in systems_signal.json file
Network signal columns in Name Selection dialog box in Capital Systems Modeler	Revision and Description do not have Sig in front of them because you did not add an entry for them in the systems_signal.json file.

Description	Screenshot
Network signal properties in Capital Signal Modeler	You want the Multiplexed value (TRUE in this case) to carry through to Capital Systems Modeler.
attributeNames section in systems_signal.json file
Mapped value on Attributes tab of properties dialog box in Capital Systems Modeler	TRUE equates to a tick in this case.

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