Category Browser

The Category Browser is the default view of the CategoryService. By default, this view shows the three object types collapsed into just three rows in the tree: Config (components), File, and History. In this view, the columns represent categories in the station.

Again, displayed row color provides the same data as in the Permissions Browser, where:

To automatically fully expand the tree, use Show Configured.

Show Configured

Select Category Browser->Show Configured from the menu, or click the icon, as shown in Figure 306. The tree expands to show all objects explicitly assigned into one or more categories.

Figure 306. Show Configured in CategoryBrowser


Show Configured in CategoryBrowser


Objects in dimmed rows have a check mark in the first column (Inherit), meaning that they inherit the category or categories of their parent container.

As needed, in any object row, click either:

  • In any category column to explicitly assign an object to a category, or again (toggle) to remove the object from that category.

  • In the Inherit column to return category assignments to match the object’s parent.

NoteWith the exception of the three “root” objects (Config, Files, History), each object must either belong to at least one category or inherit its parent’s category assignments. The three root objects cannot inherit—they must belong to one or more categories.

As shown in Figure 307, remember to Save after making any needed category assignment changes.

Figure 307. Save category assignment changes


Save category assignment changes