How are the contents of the Metasys UI Help organized?
The Metasys UI Help is organized into groups of related functionality. Features that help you locate information are found in the Navigating and searching section. Features that help you understand current status and problem areas are found in the Widgets and dashboards section. Features that help you take action to restore order are found in the Commanding and acting on alarms and audits section.
The Navigating and searching section covers navigation, search, advanced search with reporting, bulk commanding, and bulk modifying capabilities, and equipment filtering.
The Widgets and dashboards section covers the widgets and dashboards that you can use to learn about problem areas and equipment.
The Commanding and acting on alarms and audits section covers how and where you can command points on equipment, and how to view and acknowledge or discard alarms configured on equipment. This section also covers annotations and the System Activity feature.
The Infrastructure section covers information about the user menu, settings, security, and authorization. You can also learn more about the Dashboards Manager in the Infrastructure section. You can use the Dashboards Manager to customize your Metasys UI dashboards. You can customize the widgets that appear, the order the widgets appear in, and the size of the widgets.
- Graphics Manager is the single point of entry for creating and editing Metasys UI graphics, including Aliased graphics, the Master Layer graphic, and system and custom templates. The Graphics Manager also allows you to view and manage space and equipment associations with all supported graphics.
- Graphics Editor allows you to create and edit Metasys UI graphics.
- Graphics style guide provides best practices and tips on creating Metasys UI graphics.
This Help does not cover configuration of spaces, equipment, and advanced settings. For information on configuring spaces and equipment, refer to the SCT: System Configuration Tool Help (LIT-12011964) .
For more detailed information on Metasys objects and their attributes, refer to Metasys Site Management Portal Help (LIT-1201793).
How do I access Metasys UI Help on engines?
The User menu in the Metasys UI provides an option to open the Metasys UI Help. For servers, this opens the Metasys UI Help file that is stored on the server. For engines, this opens the Metasys UI Help file that is published to the Internet because the Help file is not stored on the engine itself.
If you are logged on to Metasys UI on an engine, and your browser is not connected to the Internet, the Metasys UI Help cannot load from the User menu. In this case, use a browser on a different device that is connected to the Internet, and navigate to the following address: https://docs.jci.com/JohnsonControls/Metasys-UI-Help
How do I search the Metasys UI Help?
Use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+F (for
the Microsoft®
Windows® and Google®
Chrome™ operating systems) or 
+
F (for the Apple® operating system) to open the find bar to locate a
specific word or phrase in the Metasys
UI
Help.
On an Android® phone or tablet device, open Google Chrome and tap the devices Menu button, and then select Find in page. As you type, your search results are highlighted in yellow on the page.
On an Apple device, open the Safari® browser and type the text you want to search for in the address bar. As you type, your search results are grouped into the default search engine and On this Page. You can tap any match from On this page to visit the location with search text highlighted in yellow.
What has changed since the last version of this document?
- Updated How many tabs does the Metasys UI support on my browser? with additional information for Metasys UI on engines.
- Updated Manage alarms and audits on engine-only sites with a note on child engines at a Metasys for Validated Environments (MVE) site.
- Updated Alarms and audits for MVE on Metasys UI as the annotation icons now display both onscreen and on the export file.
- Updated Do Views also include Metasys UI Graphics and Trend Studies?
- Updated Trend Study widget to include the Configured Range option in the Calendar icon dropdown.
- Added How do I change a time range for a Trend Study?, How do I view a different time range for a trend study without editing its configured range?, and How do I change the configured range for a trend study?
- Updated How do I modify a trend study in the Network tree?
- Updated Logic Viewer and Editor widget with additional Input Reference block and Output Reference block callouts.