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Control Panel#

Control Panel gives the people who use a system day to day a simple set of buttons, each firing a task, without exposing the rest of Cloud.

A configured Control Panel

A new site needs Control Panel enabling first, which creates its first page.

Control Panel is designed to work best with mobile devices. The Control Panel editing interface adds a background grey panel to allow for easier editing.

Pages#

Page settings live in the Control Panel settings pane.

The Control Panel settings pane

Setting Notes
Page Title Text shown at the top left of the page
Page Background Colour Specify a solid background colour for the page
Page Background An uploaded image. Images fit to the page but are not scaled down, so a large file will be slow to load
Action Notes
Add page Specify where in the page order it goes
Duplicate page Copies all settings including buttons to a specified page order. Pages can be moved using this functionality: first duplicate the page, then delete the original page
Limit Access Select which users in the project can see the current page. Pages are silently removed from navigation when a user cannot see them
Remove page Deletes the page settings. Tasks assigned to its buttons are kept

Page types#

There are currently 6 page types which each contain different controls:

  • 8 Buttons
    • Provides up to 8 customisable buttons on a page which can fire a task.
  • 4 Buttons + Override Controls
    • Provides up to 4 customisable buttons on a page which can fire a task and a colour picker override control on the right of the page
  • Override Controls + 4 Buttons
    • Provides up to 4 customisable buttons on a page which can fire a task and a colour picker override control on the left of the page
  • 2 Override Controls
    • Provides up to 2 colour picker override controls
  • Spaces
    • Allows for direct Space control with feedback on devices which support Spaces
  • Tags
    • Allows for direct Tag control with feedback on devices which support Tags

Control configuration#

Different control types have different configuration options which can also depend on the devices in a site.

Buttons#

  1. Select a button to open its configuration.

  2. Choose existing tasks for it to fire, or add new actions. Actions added here go into a new task when the button is created - rename it using the hashed-line box above the actions.

    Choosing tasks or actions for a button

  3. Enable the button with the toggle.

  4. Set the button text, then its background and text colours. The toggle matches it to the Pharos Cloud colours instead.

  5. Preview shows the result. Toggle a dark or light background to see how it will look against yours.

    Button appearance and preview

  6. Select Save Changes to save the button and create a task for any new actions.

Overrides#

  1. Select an override to open its configuration.

  2. Select the fixtures which the override control should adjust. Multiple selections can be made by navigating back to the controller list once a selection has been made.

    Groups overrides

  3. Enable the control with the toggle.

  4. Configure if the override should just display the colour picker, or also include intensity and colour temperature sliders.

  5. Optionally label and set colours for the control.

    Configuring an override

Spaces#

The Spaces interface has very similar functionality to the Spaces tab available in supported devices. Learn more about how it operates on the Spaces page.

  1. Add a Spaces page and select (configure) it in the Control Panel editor.

  2. Configure the options for the Space interface.

    Configure spaces control panel

  3. Once enabled, spaces can be edited to be pinned or hidden from users.

    Configure spaces edit

Tags#

The tags interface has very similar functionality to the tags tab available in supported devices. Learn more about how it operates on the Tags page.

  1. Add a tags page and select (configure) it in the Control Panel editor.

  2. Configure the options for the tags interface.

    Configure tags control panel

  3. Once enabled, tags can be edited to be pinned or hidden from users.

    Configure tags edit

Using Control Panel#

Select Go to Control Panel. It works in a desktop browser and is optimised for mobile.

Each site's Control Panel has its own URL, from which users cannot navigate into the wider Cloud interface - they sign in and land straight on the panel.

A user needs three permissions to use it:

  • Site:View all
  • Control Panel:View
  • Task:Execute

Controls behave in different ways:

  • Buttons - select a button to dispatch a task. No feedback is provided in the button
  • Override - choose overrides and select to dispatch. No feedback is provided on the override control
  • Spaces - adjust the live controller state and commit changes. See feedback of the current state. Learn more about Spaces.
  • Tags - adjust the live controller state and commit changes. See feedback of the current state. Learn more about Tags.