Echelon OpenLNS Commissioning Tool - Manual (Page 144)

128 Designing Networks
Show Connection
Shapes Select whether connection SmartShapes attached to the selected
functional block(s) are displayed. This check box is selected by default,
but it is cleared and unavailable if No is selected in the Create
Connection Shapes list.
If this check box is selected, connections with the functional block(s) will
be represented with a connection SmartShape provided that the following
is true: Yes is selected in the Create Connection Shapes list for one of
the functional blocks in the connection, and Yes or If Other FB has
Connection Shapes is selected in the functional block on the other end
of the connection. If these conditions are true, a connection SmartShape
will be shown regardless if this option is cleared for the functional block
on the other end of the connection.
If this check box is cleared, a connection SmartShape will be hidden if
this check box is cleared in the functional block on the other end of the
connection.
Viewing and Navigating OpenLNS CT Network Design
OpenLNS CT provides several methods for viewing and navigating your OpenLNS CT network
design. You can navigate through the network from within a drawing page, and you can use the
Network Explorer to navigate, view, and modify the subsystems, devices, and device templates in your
network design. The following describes how to view and navigate your network using the drawing
page, and how to navigate, view, and modify your network design with the Network Explorer.
Navigating the Network within the Drawing Page
You can navigate through your network starting from any page of your network design. Each page in
your network design represents a subsystem in the network. The initial page is called the top-level
(root) subsystem. The top-level subsystem can have multiple subsystems nested below it, and those
nested subsystems can have multiple subsystems nested below them, and so on (the subsystem directly
above another is referred to as the parent subsystem). The result is that your drawing file represents a
network hierarchy consisting of the top-level subsystem and potentially multiple levels of subsystems
nested below it.
From the drawing page, you can open any subsystem in the network and go to any object in the
subsystem, or you can move up one level in the network hierarchy and open the parent subsystem
Opening any Subsystem
You can open any subsystem of a network from any page within the network design. To open a
subsystem in the network from the drawing page, follow these steps:
1. Right-click an empty spot in the drawing page and then click Go to Subsystem on the shortcut
menu. The Select Object window opens.