Template groups are a useful way of organising all the templates you use into useful groups, so that your system administrators don’t end up with a single long list of 50 templates. This article is about how to create template groups using IFS OI Server Management or the Import/Export spreadsheet.
In IFS OI Server, links can be assigned to templates. When a template with assigned links is designated as the primary template for an entity, those assigned links will appear in the entity's Table of Contents in IFS OI Explorer. This article describes how to create links in IFS OI Server Management and group them for display in the IFS OI Explorer ribbon.
Attribute Groups are a useful way of organising attributes in a way that makes sense for your site. This article is about how to create attribute groups using IFS OI Server Management or the Import/Export spreadsheet.
The Comments Button displays a small icon which, when clicked, launches a floating window that allows the user to enter and view comments relating to a specific entity and context. The comments are stored in P2 Server and can be viewed anywhere in Explorer where the same context is used. This article describes how to configure a Comments Button in versions 4.4.0-4.4.6 of P2 Explorer.
The Data Table displays data in tabular format. The page designer can configure many settings in the design, such as display columns, sorting, grouping, filtering, and hiding. Users can also change the tables appearance, dynamically.
This tutorial guides you through how to add a Data Table to a page, and applies to version 4.5.2 and later of P2 Explorer.
Every now and then, you will need to add a new asset to your system. In P2 Server, these are known as entities. Configuring an entity is a crucial step in setting up a system to model your assets. This article describes how to set up an entity, assign it templates, and add attribute values.
A template in P2 Server is a way of defining the attributes of an entity. All entities that are assigned a template take on the attributes of that template. This article is about how to create templates using P2 Server Management Studio or the Import/Export spreadsheet.
Icons (and other images) are a useful tool to help people more easily identify certain types of information.
There will be occasions where you will want to update the P2 Server database in bulk, rather than manually adding individual items in P2 Server Management. You can do this by exporting the existing data to a specially formatted Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is formatted so that the Data Dictionary has the required information to update your information model directly in the database.
When you first install P2 Server, you will most likely need to import data into a blank database. The best way to do this is to use P2 Server Management to import a specially formatted Excel® spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has been formatted so that the Data Dictionary has the required information to accurately model your data for use in other applications such as P2 Explorer.