The WgPluginInfo widget

Author: Christian Mayer
Available since: 2012

Description

Adds an dynamic field to the visu that shows live information from a WireGate plugin.

Note: The service helper from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenAutomationProject/Wiregate/master/tools/wg-plugindb/wg-plugindb.php must be “installed” in the directory /var/www/ (i.e. the web root)

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Pages and structure of CometVisu.

The behaviour and appearance of the WgPluginInfo widget can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ….. are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the WgPluginInfo-element

../../../_images/en_config_widgets_wgplugininfo_index_editor_attributes.png — Attributes in the editor (simple view) [1]

Allowed child-elements and their attributes

../../../_images/en_config_widgets_wgplugininfo_index_editor_elements.png — Elements in the editor

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the WgPluginInfo widget.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!

Footnotes