Facility Control

I have a project where I have created several custom panel files for devices such as QLab, Hyperdeck, lighting controls, etc.
I have then created a panel file with tabs and included the other panel files into each of the tabs. 

This has worked well! The client has now asked for a general status page, which will have a small subset of controls from each of the included panel files.
If I try to drag a component from one of the panel files into this status page, it does not work.  I am assuming it is a context issue.

Is it possible to achieve what I have outlined?

Hi Richard

If you have parameters defined inside of custom panels and want to share their data elsewhere to other panels on other DashBoards, you'll want to do a search in this forum for 'jsonport'.  We have posts like this one that go into detail about how to achieve this. 

Quick shortcut note:

If all panels are in the same DashBoard process, you can skip most of this and just use an external XML data source to hold all of your parameters and DashBoard will keep all parameters backed by the same XML file in sync with each other automatically.

James,

That worked. Thank you

James,

That worked well, and I now have some related questions:

1. When I add my custom device to the basic tree view the status indicator colour indicates the panel is running with the jsonport setup correctly. Is it possible to have this show 'my' device status? Is there a common paramId I should use to get green, amber, red indicators in the tree?
2. Is there a widget hint type that shows the status as a combination of a coloured dot and descriptive text? I can create an alarm dot and separate text but would like to mimic the status indicators on your product status pages.
   
   
3. Is there a simple way of putting elements from Ross device status pages (eg TouchDrive). I can pull the whole page in but can't just pull the overall status.