General Organisation

Data connections are configured through the Sources Manager Tree.

The Sources Manager Tree is located on the left side of BimSens panel, you can toggle it on and off clicking the Toggle Tree panel button .

• the icon represents DataNodes
• the icon represents DataSources
• the icon represents DataViews
• the icon represents Layouts

Nodes that share their parent can be reorganised by drag and drop (e.g. Layouts of a DataView, DataViews of a DataSource, etc.). They can also be organised into folder and sub folders.

Tree Appearances

Nodes showing in bold blue font are ancestors of the active DataView or Layout.

The node with Light blue background is the active DataView or Layout currently showing in the grid.

When a DataSource or DataView has been loaded at least once, it is showing with a green dot to represent the fact that it contains data and does not need further authentication or refresh to be displayed in the grid. Switching between DataView already loaded is much faster as it does not reload data unless changes have been detected.

When is the Data Refreshed?

The DataSource and DataView are only authenticated or refreshed when you first activate a child DataView or Layout. Double clicking a DataView will not refresh the data from the server; to force refreshing the data, either click the Refresh button from the bottom toolbar, or right click the DataView node in the tree and click Refresh.

To learn more about the different ways the data can be refreshed, see the section on Refreshing the Data.

Context Menus

The Sources Manager Tree provides access to configuration commands via right click menu. Different commands will be available depending on the type of node that is clicked:

• Right click anywhere below the last tree node to open the menu to add a New DataNode. If you choose to add a New DataSource directly, it will be added to the active DataNode, or a blank DataNode will be created automatically to host it.

• Right click a DataNode Node to Configure, Save or Delete the DataNode as well as add a New DataSource.

• Right click a DataSource Node to perform a DataSource Refresh, Configure, Save, Close or Delete the DataSource as well as add a New DataView.

You can also add a New DataSource to the parent DataNode with an option to duplicate the one associated to the node that was clicked.

• Right click a DataView Node to Refresh the data, Configure, Save, Close or Delete the DataView as well as add a New Layout.

You can also add a New DataView to the parent DataSource with an option to duplicate the one associated to the node that was clicked.

• Right click a Layout Node to Refresh the data of its underlying DataView, Configure, Save or Delete the Layout.