STAGE™

Getting Familiar with the User Interface

Landing Page

When you connect to the STAGE user interface, the Home view appears. This view contains links to the most important Views of the STAGE user interface.

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Home view

The Menu allows you to switch to all available STAGE user interface views.

This menu is displayed on the left-hand side and is collapsed by default. To view all menu items, click on the menu icon at the top left.

A description of the individual views can be found in chapter Views.

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Menu – collapsed
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Menu – expanded

Collapsing/Expanding Column Sections

You can recognize column sections by the right grafik-20250314-164336.png or left grafik-20250314-164320.png arrow symbol at the top right of a section.

Clicking on an arrow expands or collapses the column section.

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Column Section – collapsed
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Column Section – expanded

Filtering

Filters allow you to focus on pertinent content, which is useful when encountering information-heavy lists and tables.

Depending on the selected view, filters are available at the top of tables and/or in an expandable column on the left-hand side.

Filters on the Top

Enter characters in the text field above the desired table.
Only content containing the search text are displayed in corresponding tables (case-insensitive).
Click grafik-20240621-053621.png delete icon to clear the filter.

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Filters on the Top

Filters on the Left-hand Side

Depending on the selected view, various filters are available in subsections and/or tabs.


The symbols at the top enable the following functions:

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Click to clear all tick marks.

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Click to toggles all tick marks.

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Click to disable the respective filter.

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Filters on the left-hand side

Sorting

Table content can be sorted by clicking a column heading. Click again to sort in the opposite direction. Multiple sorting is possible by holding the CTRL or SHIFT on the keyboards while clicking again on another column heading.

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Sorting

Selecting Items in a List

Single Selection

Single entries can be selected / deselected by click on it once.

Multiple Selection

In a table, where multiple selection is allowed, you can use the CTRL and SHIFT keys while clicking on items to expand the selection to two or more items. The two methods can be combined where you first SHIFT-select a range and then use CTRL-select to further add or remove items to or from the selection.

Select a Range of Items (SHIFT-select)

Select a range of consecutive items in a list as follows.

  1. Click to select the first item.

  2. Hold SHIFT and click the last item.

All list items from the first to the last are added to the selection.

Select Multiple Items (CTRL-select)

Select two or more items in any order as follows.

  1. Click to select the first item.

  2. Hold CTRL and click another item.

  3. CTRL-clicking a previously selected item de-selects it.

Each clicked list element is added to the selection.

Enable / Disable Toggle Switches

The enable / disable switches turn a feature on or off.

Disabled

Enabled

Description

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Click to toggle a feature on or off. Once you have changed this setting, you must click Apply/Save to activate the change.

Status Indicators and General Buttons

Status indicators report the health or availability of a:

  • Parameter as to whether it is within acceptable operating limits.

  • Link or signal as to whether it is present and available for use.

  • Software option.

Cautions and warnings are a range of alerts concerning the current operational status.
Status indicators show their current status through color coded icons.
Some icons are used as buttons to accept or reject changes.

Status Indicators

Online

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The status means: device is online, sufficient resources available or user is logged in, for example.

Offline

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The status means: device is offline or the user is not logged in, for example.

Emergency

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The status means: device is reporting an error or insufficient resources, for example. The software has become unstable.

Alert

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Immediate action is required.

Critical

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An error that cannot be be ignored.

Warning

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A potential problem or condition that might lead to a fault condition.

Informational

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A status message to provide feedback about a process or action without indicating a problem or requiring you to intervene.

Warning

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The status means: device reports an error, for example.

Yes / No

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The value is true or false.

Rotating Green Dot

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The status is: a long operation is in progress.

Rotating Blue Dot

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The status is: Evaluating or Connecting.

Resource not available

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The status is: This resource is not available to this STAGE instance. This resource exists on the network, but is currently being used by another STAGE instance. To use this resource, you must first remove it from the other STAGE instance.


General Buttons

Settings

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Click to open a settings window.

Tick

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The entry is selected (activated, switched on) or not selected (deactivated/switched off).

Garbage Bin

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Click to discard changed settings.

Delete

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Click to delete a resource.

Clear Selection

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Click to clear the selection of any selected items, in a list of devices for example.

Toggle Selection

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Click to toggle the selection of all items. Selected items become de-selected and de-selected items become selected.

Question mark

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Moving the mouse pointer over the question mark displays a short tooltip about this parameter.

Expand / Collapse

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Click to collapse/expand a configuration item.

Expand / Collapse Branch

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Click these icons to expand or collapse a branch in a tree list.

Collapse / Expand Column

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Click to collapse/expand a column.

Hide / Show

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Click to hide/show the selected device.

Add Item

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Click to add an item to a list such as a device or location.

Filter

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Type text to filter the results in a list or table. See #Filtering.

Edit Item

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Click to open a window for managing (adding, renaming, duplicating, or deleting) the selected list item.

Alphabetical Sort

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Click to change the sort order of the items in a table. See #Sorting.

Disable Filter

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Click to clear any filtering action.

Calendar

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Click to set a date or date range.

Sort by Date

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Click to sort a list by each entry’s creation date or time.

Copy

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Click to copy the text in a field.

Role Filter

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Click to filter the list according to the selected Roles.

Member Filter

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Click to filter the list according to the members.

Device Filter

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Click to filter the list according to the devices.

Application Filter

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Click to filter the list according to the applications.

Reset to default settings

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Click to reset any changes you have made to the default settings.

Accept

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Click to accept your modifications and close the window.

Cancel

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Click to reject your modifications and close the window.