In the Sites Manager window use the Location Properties tab for at-a-glance review of important Location details. Access to the Sites Manager window requires Manage Sites right.
| Icon | Description |
|---|---|
| View Trend: View a Location's historical data as a trend in a new browser window. | |
| Find in Tree: Highlight the selected Location in the Zones and Locations navigation tree. | |
| Show Linked Channel History: Find out how long a specific device channel has been linked to a selected Location, when the link first began, and for how long it has been linked. |
| Column | Contains |
|---|---|
| Type | The Location Type icon. This column cannot be moved. |
| Zone | Full path of the parent Zone. |
| Location | Location name as displayed in the navigation tree. |
| Location ID | Number assigned by viewLinc to a new Location. It can never be changed. Used to avoid confusion if more than one Location is given the same name. |
| Description | User-entered device description. |
| Device Description | Name of a device, as defined by a user. |
| Device Serial Number | Device serial number automatically stored in viewLinc . |
| Channel Description | Description provided by a user. |
| Device ID | A number assigned to a new device, generated by viewLinc , and can never be changed. Used to avoid confusion if more than one device is given the same name. |
| Channel ID | A number assigned to a new channel, created by viewLinc , and can never be changed. Used to avoid confusion if more than one channel is given the same name. |
| Channel Index | Channel number assigned to the linked Location. |
| Location Units | Unit display format set in viewLinc , often modified for reporting purposes (for example, American sites may want to see readings in standard measurement units, Fahrenheit, while Canadian operations may prefer them in metric, Celsius). |
| Preferred Units | Unit display option (such as C or F), for the specific Location (units can be set differently for different Locations). |
| Device Units | Data logger or transmitter units, such as C, DEGC, TDC, set by Vaisala. These can be changed in viewLinc to display in a more meaningful way (Location or Preferred Units). |
| Measurement Type | The value being measured (temperature, humidity, Boolean, pressure). |
| Decimal Places | System-defined preference for this Location. Any threshold alarm settings are
rounded to a Location's decimal place before comparison. Consider the following
example:
If Decimal Places = 1, an alarm may be triggered because both the threshold alarm and the logger sample are rounded up to 22.4 ℃. If Decimal Places = 2, an alarm is not triggered because the threshold alarm is rounded to 22.38 ℃ and the logger sample value is rounded to 22.35 ℃. |
| Device Address | System folder path to this Location. |
| Link Start | Date the Location started recording data (Unlimited indicates this Location has remained linked to the current channel since it started monitoring data). |
| Link End | Date the Location stopped recording data (Unlimited indicates the Location is still linked to the current channel, and continuously recording data). |
| Permission | The permission a user has been granted for this Location. |
| Threshold Alarm Schedule | The name of the threshold alarm schedule set for this Location, if one has been assigned. |