Basic categories

The system maintains basic categories as indexes in an array. You individually assign components in the station to each category. Subsequently, you set up roles to grant permission to access components based on the category you associated with each component. Finally, you assign a role to each user.

A new station (created using the New Station wizard) comes with two default basic categories:

  • User (Category 1)

  • Admin (Category 2)

As the names imply, regular users may view and modify some station objects. Only administrators should have permission to access other objects. All objects default to the User category except for these, which default to the Admin category:

  • The configuration services: UserService, CategoryService, and ProgramService

  • All files (the entire file space)

You may add basic categories as needed. For example, you could group components by equipment type, such as Lighting, Door access, and HVAC. An alternate scheme might group components by geography: Floor 1, Floor 2, and Floor 3. How you group components depends on your overall building model, and specifically on how you plan to set up roles, permissions and users.

Note: Basic categories use station memory. To improve system performance, minimize the number of categories, and keep category indexes contiguous.