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Flow Map Page

Purpose: To give operators an orientation and overview by presenting visual maps that illustrate the flows within a machine or process.

About​

The Flow Map Page enables you to arrange processes or simplified machine illustrations in a two-dimensional format. A Flow Map Page is composed of multiple Flow Map Modules that can be defined according to your needs.

Anatomy​

  1. Title and Icon

  2. Flow Map Module

    1. Label

    2. Info

    3. Outlet

Page Properties​

General

Title

Will be displayed in the navigation and the page header.

Page Reference

This optional property lets you define unique short code that is human readable and helps to refer to that page without specifying its actual name. This is helpful especially in multilingual environments because

  • It helps your Support-Team to quickly navigate users.
  • It can be picked up by the product manual and documentation.
Example reference in main navigation
Example reference in the page title

Icon

This icon will be displayed in the main navigation, the page header, and inside an embedded navigation of a Page Group.

Navigation

Display this page in navigation

Every page is automatically included in the main navigation. If you do not want this page to be reachable from within the main navigation, uncheck this option. The page will remain accessible and can be opened as an overlay or navigated to directly.

Specific Properties​

Appearance

Module Size

Choose one of three different module sizes. This size will be applied to all of the modules of the map.

Children​

Flow Map Module

Elements

Linear Flow