This post is part of the series Forced Root Cause Monitoring via Mashups and Modal Popups

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Required Entities

In this simplified example we'll just use a Thing to set a status triggering the popup.

This Thing will have two properties and one service:

• Properties
• trigger (Boolean) - to indicate if an error status is present or not, if so - trigger the popup
• selectedReason (Number) - to indicate the selected reason / root cause chosen in the modal popup
• Service
• clearTrigger - to reset the trigger to "false" once a reason has been selected

The selectedReason will be logged into a ValueStream.

In addition to the Thing and the ValueStream we will need a StateDefinition to pre-define potential root causes to be displayed in the popup. We will use three states to be used in a traffic-light fashion to indicate the severity of the issue in a custom color schema.

To display the monitoring Mashup and the popup we will need two Mashups.