1. “NiagaraAX Graphics” July 2007
Scott Muench - Manager Technical Sales
James Johnson – Sales Engineer
Ed Merwin - Director Channel Sales
© 2007 Tridium, Inc,

2. Welcome!
The goal of TridiumTalk is to share with the Niagara community timely content on sales, products and technical topics.  Each session will last between minutes and will be a mix of presentation, demonstrations and Q&A.
This session and past sessions will be posted on our community web site at (more details to come)
The content presented here is representative of Tridium’s Niagara technology and products in general, please contact your channel partner for specific details and pricing.
As a courtesy to others in the conference, please place your phone on mute until the Q&A portion of the program

3. Agenda Introduction The User Experience Getting the Information
Graphic Elements
Built-in Views
Live Demonstration
Next Steps – Advanced topics
Where to Find More Information
Question and Answer Session

4. Introduction
AX Graphics - Tech Session for Building the User Interface
Continuing the series of technical TridiumTalk sessions, AX Graphics is a live "over-the-shoulder" look at how user interfaces are created in the Niagara Framework. The graphical elements and various views used to create real life applications will be demonstrated.

5. User Experience Audience Navigation Look and Feel
Who is to be the user of the system?
How will they be using it? What tasks do they need to perform?
What devices will they use? Client tool, web browser, PDA?
Navigation
Pre plan the levels of penetration and the flow to get there
Decide on a navigation approach:
Text and Hyperlinks
Buttons/Tabs and Icons
Nav Bar Menus
Look and Feel
Create standards for layout, colors, font type and size
Keep as simple and consistent as practical

6. Audience – Planning for the use

7. User Experience Audience Navigation Look and Feel
Who is to be the user of the system?
How will they be using it? What tasks do they need to perform?
What devices will they use? Client tool, web browser, PDA?
Navigation
Pre plan the levels of penetration and the flow to get there
Decide on a navigation approach:
Text and Hyperlinks
Buttons/Tabs and Icons
Nav Bar Menus
Look and Feel
Create standards for layout, colors, font type and size
Keep as simple and consistent as practical

8. Navigation – Text and Hyperlinks

9. Navigation – Buttons and Icons

10. Navigation – Nav Bar Menus

11. Getting the Information – “The Driver Framework”

12. Getting the Information – Control logic

13. Graphic Elements – “Widgets”

14. Graphic Elements – Make Widget Wizard

15. Graphic Elements – Pallets

16. Px Graphic View

17. Px Editor

18. Logging Views

19. Alarm Console View

20. Rich Presentations In a Browser

21. Grid Table and Label Pane

22. Live Demonstration

23. Next Steps - Advanced Topics
Relativized ORDs – creating a template graphics
The Nav file – custom experience for each user
The Component Grid - summary screens
Dynamic linking to graphic properties
Transparency and gradient properties
Your Imagination Here…

24. More Information
Past TridiumTALK – What’s new 3.2 – Grid table and Label Pane
Web Forums and Blogs –
On-line demo station –
User Documentation – Niagara Bowser User Access Guide
More advanced Documentation – Niagara User Guide
Training and Certification –
Advanced training and topics – Ask your channel partner for details

25. Question and Answer Session
Select the Q&A icon in the Netspoke menu bar to type your questions
Feel free to speak up for further discussion
Please introduce yourself, company name, and where you are calling from.

26. Thank you! We would like your feedback on today’s TridiumTalk
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If you have any further questions, comments or topic suggestions, please them to
Ed Merwin
James Johnson
Scott Muench