Is it possible to place time selector widget on master header in order to controll all mashups?

[fmanniti]

In my project I have a master with a menu and three mashups.

I would like to have this option

1) See current data

2) See history of data

if you click on 1 all tables, grids, widgets and whatever show you what's going on right now, if you click on 2 you will see data of a certain range of time in the past.

Now, if I have a single mashup it's easy to do because you just add a query service and bind a time selector widget with it but if you have several mashups is it possible to place the time selector in the master so that, if I click on option 2, all my three mashups will be set in "history mode"?

[ttielebein]

Hello, I believe what you need here are mashup parameters. See the documentation found here: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS187026

Hope this helps!

Tori

[fmanniti]

I'm studying mashup parameters just now so I might be wrong but, to what I understood, this works only between mashups but in masters I don't have a "Configure mashup parameters"

[emoreira]

An option would be adding it to the Session parameters..

1. Create a ThingShape with the parameters you want to pass between mashups and add it to the UserManagementSubsystem;
2. Add the Time Selector widget to the master and bind its parameters to the session properties you created
3. Bind the session property to the mashup parameters and consume it inside each mashup.

I did not test it myself but it should work.

Cheers

Ewerton

[fmanniti]

Forgive me, but in point 1, did you mean Thing Shape instead of Data shape? Because I can only add ThingShape in UserManagementSubsystem

[emoreira]

Yes.. you are correct. I thought one thing and wrote the other!

I fixed it.

[fmanniti]

Ok, this works, just one more question (sorry, I guess it's quite stupid but I'm full of new information right now and I'm quite confusing):

if the time selector was in the same mashup I should have bind startdatetime with the start date of my query service, enddatetime with the end date and then Updated to the Service itself

Now that this is in the master, I binded StartDateTime and EndDateTime to the session and in mashup I binded the session parameters to the Query parameters. How can I bind the Updated event? Shell I create a new event in the ThingShape?

[PaiChung]

This part you can either use Updated to trigger a Service which changes a different Session Parameter value and use the Session Parameter Value Changed event to trigger the Service

OR use the Session Parameter start/end time changed events directly, this gives a different behavior since you'll get an update when you change the start and an update when you change the end.

[PaiChung]

Unfortunately Masters can't pass mashup parameters to Contained Mashups (Unless you go a very complicated route)

For this particular use case it is best to use Session Parameters to pass the values from the Master to the Contained Mashups.

[fmanniti]

Yes, thanks.

I'm following Ewerton's advice which looks to work

Thank you very much

[PaiChung]

oops I started this response at one time and then posted it an hour later hahaha.