Category Browser (wbutil-CategoryBrowser)

This view is the default view of the station’s CategoryService, and typically where you spend most of your time assigning categories to components after initially creating the categories.

Note: When an admin user (user with Admin write privilege on the CategoryService and on a particular station component being adjusted) makes a category mask adjustment, the user must also have at least the Operator write privilege on the category being adjusted in the category mask for the station object. This includes changes to check marks in the “Inherit” column—the user must have at least Operator write access to any altered categories applied from the Inherit change.
Figure 1. Category Browser view


To access this view, expand Config > Services and double-click CategoryService.

Columns

Column Description
Inherit A check mark indicates that the object inherits the category from its parent in the table.
User Indicates the category. All system objects except for those listed as assigned to Admin are assigned to this category.
Admin

These objects default to the Admin category:

  • The configuration services: UserService, CategoryService, and ProgramService

  • All files (the entire file space)
Categories 3–8

A bold bullet indicates that the object is assigned to the category.

A grayed out bullet indicates inheritance.

Blank indicates that the category has not been assigned.