Working with Multiple Units

Web Central includes the following features to support applications that handle multiple units:

  • Users or administrators can set per-user User Display Units preference.
  • Archibus applications display area and length values in organization-wide Base Units , or in User Display Units.

See Enabling Multiple Units for Area Fields in Archibus User Help for details on units support in Archibus applications.

Add-In Managers can use these new features to add multiple units support to custom forms and reports:

  • Grids, cross-tables, charts, and paginated reports display currency symbol before the value.
  • A set of macros to display currency titles and symbols in application views.
  • A set of macros to convert costs using exchange rates in application data sources.
  • Java and JavaScript APIs to access these new features.

Multiple currencies support is an optional feature that site administrators can turn on or off.

Definitions

Term Description
Base Units Units of area/length specified per project in the Archibus schema preferences table. Field values are always stored in the database in Base Units
User-Display Units Per-user display units of area/length, based on the user’s locale. If User Units are different than the Base Units, field values require conversion to be displayed in User Units. If a site uses the multiple units feature, all area/length field values are displayed in User Units by default.
Converted (Opposite) Units Units of area/length that are opposite from User Units. For example, if User Units is feet, then Converted Units is meters. Field values require conversion to be displayed in Converted Units.

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