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Opera User Documentation

This documentation describes all procedures needed in order to run and manipulate the Opera software as a BASIC user. Furthermore you will be educated onhow to interact with Opera and use the provided information to the full potential. Have in mind that Opera is an very user friendly software and it is extremely customizable, meaning that you can edit/change it any way you wish for it to cater your needs.

In specifics, this documentation will go over the following topics:


 * Opera Layout
 * Opera Customization
 * Widget & Chart Interaction
 * Creating, Reading, Updating & Deleting Data
 * Opera Analysis

The Opera suite is used to plot diagrams and charts relevant to the manufacturing process of the factory, with a focus on production, maintenance and quality. With the help of Opera you are able to recognize the areas in your plant that need improving and it allows you to augment your processes by providing critical information to your company.

NOTE: the application makes a very big distinction between ADMIN and NON-ADMIN users, giving the administrators the possibility to use the client configurator and act on server parameters directly from the client.

The segments which are specific for admin users will be distinctly specified as such.

2.1.4. Ellipsis
The Ellipsis Menu is represented by three vertical dots and can be found in the top-right hand corner of Opera PM, as shown in Image 1 below. The menu performs a multitude of functions such as password change, user settings, license info etc. Please read on for a full information base.

2.1.4.1 User
The User sub-option of the Ellipsis main menu is called User settings and is used for personalizing your OPM user profile. From here, as you can see, you can change the principal rules that your profile follows regarding the general appearance settings, main dashboard, grid settings, language, widgets and notifications settings. The effect of the changes generally is immediate.

NOTE: It is essential to know that any changes made in this menu apply for this user, which means any time you login the changes that you have made will be saved for every session of Opera that you launch. This can be overridden only if you are an administrator having access on the Admin option which will be later on explained.

''Image 1. Accessing user settings''

General settings

Theme

In general settings first you can change the Theme or visual appearance of Opera choosing between many variants.

Image 2. Choosing a theme

The preferred one is the Essential, but for example as shown, you can choose the rarely found high-contrast theme if you have vision problems or the essential-light theme for light environments or when you use Opera on mobile device.

Image 3. Example of how high-contrast theme looks like

Image 4. Example of how essential-light theme looks like

Modal style

Afterwards is the Modal style from where you can decide, checking the boxes, if to be asked for confirmation with a pop-up window before closing a chart or a tab as a grid table entity for example.

Image 5. Choosing chart and tab modal style

Image 6. The pop-up window when confirmation mode is active

Font

Lastly you can customize the font appearance. So, in the Font tab you can choose the type of font, the size, choosing between a range, the style, from regular to italic and oblique, and you can choose the font weight or letter thickness from a range. Take in account that not every change can be applied everywhere for layout interface reasons.

Image 7. Font related tab

Main dashboard

In Main dashboard you can change how the welcome screen appears. Logically, in this case for the configuration to take effect you have to log out and relog in the OPM. It is possible to have a different layout shown after logging in to the application. After log in, in fact, you can see the standard Welcome page of Opera as the default behavior or it is possible to have two other configurations:


 * Keep the standard Welcome page and open a customized dashboard as an additional tab by choosing the desired dashboard from the "Main Layout" list. To restore the default behavior, simply select "No Dashboard".
 * Override the standard Welcome page with a customized dashboard by choosing the desired dashboard from the "Main Layout" list and by checking the box "Main Layout".

Image 8 below describes the Main Dashboard options:

Image 8. Image Main dashboard options

Image 9. View of the main dashboard when both welcome page and personal layout is active

Grid Settings

Grid Settings options are straight forward. The following screen will appear (Image 8) which will give the user the choice of:

•             Requesting confirmation when a table is updated.

•             Requesting confirmation when a table row is deleted.

•             Requesting confirmation that required/mandatory fields are placed at the top of the selection panel. Please refer to Image 9 for an example.

Image 8: Grid Settings

Image 9: Required Fields Prioritized

Under the “Grid View Options”, the following screen will appear and offers the following choices to the user:

•             A paging or scrolling view.

•             There is a choice of four font sizes: default, medium, large and extra.

•             The final four options are self-explanatory, relate to the grid style and perform no functions as they are purely intended as visual aids. Please refer to Image 10 below. Please also note that again, not all Alternate Row Colors can be applied due to layout interface reasons.

Image 10: Grid View Options

Language

Opera offers a choice of four languages as demonstrated in Image 11 below. For more detailed information regarding languages, please refer to subsection 2.1.4.2. Language further on.

Image 11: Language Options

Widgets

The following Image 12 sets out the options available. A widget width can be between 2 and 12 rows. The height can be between 1 and 12 columns and the third option is to change the color, noting that this will be the default palette when a chart is first created. For more information regarding Widgets, please refer to section 3 of the User Documentation.

Image 12: Widget Options

Notifications

The notifications settings appear as follows in Image 13.

Image 13: Notifications Settings

The first box above allows the user to select how long notifications appear on the screen for (a timeout period) whilst the second box allows the user to select the notification level. Level 1 is considered the highest priority and level 8 the lowest. An example of a level 1 message could be a “fatal” error, such as machine failure. The following Image 14 is a list of notification messages in order:

Image 14: Notifications Warnings