The Instrument Directory window is your primary browser, providing access to all of the instrument records and historical information stored in the Cornerstone database. 

Using the features of the Instrument Directory window, you can organize your instrument database into a hierarchical structure that represents a model of the plant where the instruments are deployed.  This hierarchy is called the Database Structure View.  Since you will be familiar with this organization model for your plant, this display will make it easy for you to browse your instrument database and quickly find any instrument, even if you can’t remember its tag.

If you are using your Base Station for an on-line instrument management system with HART multiplexers connected to your field instruments, the Instrument Directory also displays a Connection View.  That view depicts the communications equipment and the connected field instruments and provides for “browsing” the instruments themselves.  The Connection View graphically illustrates the physical connection hierarchy of key communications equipment used to interface Base Station to your instruments.  It also provides direct access to functions related to the setup of that communications equipment, right from this view.

This window is a vertically split display with the graphical structure maps (Structure View and Connection View) on the left side, and a columnar list of instruments on the right.  The contents of the instrument list on the right side reflect the “contents” of the selected level in the structure displayed on the left side.

Context menus (raised with a right button click) are used throughout the Instrument Directory display to provide access to key functions that relate to each area of the directory. 

Context menus, raised by right clicking on the desired instrument, provide access to the most commonly used functions associated with an instrument.  This includes connecting, history data, configuration data, etc.  These functions raise the appropriate window, with this instrument already selected for action.

Plant Structure Levels

All level descriptions (above) can be renamed to suit your enterprise.  Each individual structure item within the structure hierarchy can be named to suit your plant organization

Structure View Instrument List

Displays the following instrument data:

You can select column width, order, hiding, and sorting to suit your situation.

Structure View Management Functions

These functions allow you to set up and maintain the Instrument Directory exactly as required by your application.

Structure View Instrument List Functions

These functions pop up with a right button click on a device in the Instrument List portion of the Directory.  They provide direct access to the most important instrument functions provided by the Base Station software.

Connection View Instrument List

Displays the following instrument data:

You can select column width, order, hiding, and sorting to suit your situation.

Connection View Management Functions

Connection View Instrument List Functions

These functions pop up with a right  button click on an instrument in the list.  They provide direct access to the most important instrument functions provided by the Base Station software.

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