Advanced Operations with a Site

Working with Overall Site Status

The overall site status, as opposed to its functional status (see section Work with Site Statuses), is the general operational status of the site. The overall status can be one of the following:

• Active (the default status) – a status in which the site can receive alarms

• Inactive – a status in which the site cannot receive alarms, all incoming alarms for it are rejected by evalink talos

The overall site status is displayed on the Overview  page of a site, in the Site Status area. To access the page, go to the Sites page and click on the site name in the list. If the site status is changed to Inactive, a warning message Device is Inactive, evalink talos will reject Alarms  is displayed.

Only Administrator or Manager can change the overall site status.

Change the Overall Site Status

The site status can be changed on the Overview  page of a site:

• manually, when necessary

• automatically, by setting a timer for activation and / or deactivation

To change the status of a site:

1. On the Sites > [site] > Overview page, click the import_export Change button

2. In the Change Status dialog that opens:

• to change the site status immediately, check or uncheck the Active option

• to set a timer for the status change

  a. Click Add in the Activation Date area and / or in the Deactivation Date area, accordingly

  b. Specify the date and time for the activation / deactivation

3. Click Submit

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If you need to activate or deactivate a site periodically, consider using Activation / Deactivation alarms for this purpose. For details, see section Manage Sites > Edit the Site Settings, the Special Alarms pane description.

When the site status is changed, a Deactivate Device or an Activate Device event appears on the Event Logs page of the site, site group, and in the global Event Logs.

Shareable Site Links

Sharing a site allows you to create links to a site on your tenant that you can share with other users who do not belong to your tenant.

You can configure the set of permissions for each shareable link, including viewing and / or management permissions.

When someone opens your site using a shared link, they don't have to log into evalink talos and will not view any other information from your tenant, such as Company, Alarms, Events.

You can create multiple shareable links for the same site using different access and peermission configurations. All shareable links that you create are displayed on the Share subpage for each site.

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You can share Regular Site Groups in a similar way.

The figure below shows a record of a shareable link to a Site:

Each shareable link record includes:

• The link itself and its expiration date, if applied

• Information about the last time it was used for access

• Password, if any

• Enable / Disable toggle

  When you disable the link using the toggle, the record is marked as Disabled

• Permissions, configured for the link

• Edit, Copy Link and Delete controls

Create a Shareable Link

To Create a shareable link:

1. Navigate to the site or a Site Group you want to share

2. In the Overview page of a Site or a Site Group, click share Share

3. In the Share subpage, click add Create Link or Share Site / Share Site Group.

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   The Share Site / Share Site Group button is available only if you have no shared links for this site or Site Group. If there's at least one shareable link record, use the add Create Link option.

   The Site Sharing dialog opens:

4. In the Site Sharing dialog, fill out the following fields:

   • Description - a few words describing the link

   • Password - a password a user with a link has to enter for access

   • Test Type - select a test type for the shared site.

     For details about Test Types, see section Working with Test Types

   • Check / Uncheck the permissions that you want the user with the link to have in Share and Manage fields

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     The Share permission list allows users with the link to view information about the site or Site Group.

     The Manage permission list allows users with the link to change information about the site or Site Group.

5. Select the expiration option for your link

6. Click Submit

Edit a Shareable Link

To edit a shareable link:

1. Go to the site or Site Group Overview > Share

2. For the desired shared link record, click Edit

3. Edit the shareable link as desired

4. Click Submit

Delete a Shareable Link

Deleting a shareable link immediately revokes any access to your site or Site Group through this link. If a user with a link has your site opened at the moment when you delete a link, evalink talos still lets you delete a link. The user with an opened site or Site Group will not be able to save any changes they have made.

The moment they try to save changes or refresh the page, they receive an error message.

To delete a shared link:

1. Go to the site or Site Group Overview > Share

2. For the desired shared link record, click Delete

3. Type the delete confirmation

4. Click Submit

Assign a Service Company to a Site

Service Companies can act like contact, schedule and workflow databases that you can assign to a particular site or to multiple sites instead of managing repeatedly used contacts or similar workflows and schedules for each separate site.

For more details about Service Companies, see section Working with Service Companies.

To assign a Service Company to a Site:

1. Navigate to Sites > [Site] > Settings

2. In the Site pane, select the Service Companies you want to assign to the site from the Service Companies field

3. Click Save

The Service Companies you have assigned to the site are shown in the Overview tab for your site, grouped by their type.