Administrative Options

Configuring Administrative Options

Use the Options button on the Admin menu to access the following configuration screens.

Audit Categories — used to customize the list of system audit categories.

Composition Splits — used to configure composition splits for the higher hydrocarbons (C6+) that are not available in system chromatographs.

Custom Dashboard Columns — used to define custom columns for optional display of communications statistics in the Dashboard control.

Custom Device Data — used to map custom device data into a finite number of available data item fields.

Data Quality Settings — used to configure system data quality settings.

Email Options — used to define parameters to use when emailing reports.

Normalization Views — used to configure data normalization views, including storage options, base settings, time settings, and UDCs for the SCADA system.

System Options — used to specify how configuration changes are historized, how data records are handled when user edits are made before data is closed, and how data records are handled when a closed record is edited.

Unit Set Definitions — used to configure measurement units for each configuration item and process variable in a defined unit set.

You must have proper security authorization to perform these actions. See FMS Security (and ACCESS security event) for information about configuring security access to administrative options.

Administrative Options Lock

If two or more users (both of whom have sufficient security access to configure FMS Explorer Administrative Options) attempt to modify Administrative Options at the same time, the first user is granted a lock and the second user is prompted with the following warning.

The second user has the option to override the first user's lock and request their own exclusive lock, or not, as desired.

Click Yes to force the lock, or No to decline forcing the lock.

Yes - forces the lock; overrides any changes being made by the first user

No - does not force the lock; the second user retains read-only access to the selected dialog box, and can view associated audit history via the Audit History button.

Note: Users without sufficient security access cannot be granted a lock, but will be able to view the read-only versions of the Administrative Options dialog boxes.