Highlighting and Labeling Multiple Assets

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You may want a view in which you highlight multiple assets, such as highlighting rooms by room type and also highlighting furniture and equipment. For each asset you want to highlight, you define its highlight and label dataSource in the axvw file.

In the drawing panel, specify highlightDataSource and labelsDataSource properties with pattern “asset:dataSourceId;anotherAsset:anotherDataSourceId…”.

For example, the following panel will highlight and label rm and eq assets.

<panel type="drawing" id="panel_multiple_assets"
highlightDataSource="rm:ds_rm_highlight;eq:ds_eq_highlight"
labelsDataSource="rm:ds_rm_label;eq:ds_eq_label" highlightType="restriction">
</panel>

The order in which the system highlights assets is the same order as the order in highlightDataSource property.

You can specify different label size per asset. In <report /> , define labelHeight to be something like <report labelHeight=”rm:5;eq:1.5” /> .

With multiple assets highlighting, it’s likely you want rooms to be border-highlighted to make other assets more readable. And if you want to print out the PDF report, border highlighting also save a lot of ink. In <report /> , you define labelHeight like <report borderHighlight=”rm:5” /> (5 is the border size).

You can define a legend panel for each asset, and the display order will be the same as their defined order in axvw.