The Rules card gets less attention than charts and maps, so here is one on a board of its own. Personal board, one card, for a place called Pool plant · Ankara.
From the top: Add rule beside the card’s title, the place’s Auto / Manual switch (on Auto here), a search box and the rule list. There is one rule, Monthly report reminder, switched on and Idle. The line under it reads “Last run Nov 1, 04:31 PM: every condition holds · Next Dec 1, 09:00 AM”. A rule with a time trigger shows when it runs next.
Under the list is Commands: pick a device, then one of its commands, then Send. In the shot no device is picked yet, and Command and Send are greyed out.
Rules are written as sentences (When, Only if, Then) and each one runs as a flow behind the scenes. The full description is on The Rules card.
Can our technicians switch a place to Manual themselves during maintenance, or only admins?
Technicians can. Switching a place between Manual and Auto is a User permission by default; adding, changing and deleting rules is Admin. When they switch to Manual they pick until when (until they switch it back, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 4 hours) and can write why. See Manual and Auto modes.
And while it’s in Manual, does the Commands part of the card still work? That’s exactly when we’d run the pump by hand.
Yes. Commands you send from the card’s Commands list or from the device page still go through in Manual. Commands from rules are skipped, and the rule’s run log says the device is in Manual. Alarms keep working as usual.
Is the mode switch logged? We have to show who switched what during an audit.
Yes, every mode switch is audited, and so are creating, changing, switching and running rules. While a place is in Manual the card also shows a banner with since when, by whom and until when.
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