The Metasys UI supports navigation in the form of spaces and equipment relationships. A space is the physical location or area that is served by a piece of equipment. Equipment is the broad term used to describe the physical controllers and devices that make your building run. These controllers and devices include boilers, chillers, air handling units, lights, meters, security, and anything else used to maintain your building's environment. Equipment can serve spaces and other equipment. A Metasys system administrator can create spaces and equipment and define the relationship between them in SCT.
The Building Network tree in Metasys UI provides access to objects using an alternative navigation tree to the Spaces tree. The Building Network organizes objects according to the Metasys object hierarchy, similar to the All Items tree in the SMP. Objects listed in the Building Network tree are identified by name and by icon and display Global Status indicators.
The SMP UI and Metasys UI support user-customized system navigation schemes in the form of User Views, a hierarchical method of organizing and displaying some or all of the items within a system. A Metasys system administrator can limit a user’s access to the Metasys system by creating User Views and assigning them to specific users. At Metasys Release 12.0, use SMP or SCT to create and modify a User View.