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The System Management is the central administrative unit for WinCC OA Systems.
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Alert and Event Screen (AEScreen)
The alert and event panel (AEpanel) in WinCC OA is a standard panel and allows displaying alerts and events in table format.
Customization
Customization - Context Menu for the AEScreen

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- Project Administration
  The chapter contains a description of the process monitor as well as the project administration.
- Graphics Editor (GEDI)
  Used for creating and editing panels, provides tools for creating and configuring graphic objects.
- System Management
  The System Management is the central administrative unit for WinCC OA Systems.
  - System management
  - Diagnostics
    - Login Statistics
    - Alert and Event Screen (AEScreen)
      The alert and event panel (AEpanel) in WinCC OA is a standard panel and allows displaying alerts and events in table format.
      - Requirements and installation
      - Alert states
      - View of the Alarm and Event Screen
      - Alert table
      - Event table
      - A&E-Row/Screen
      - Column configuration
      - Customization
        Customization - Permission Checks for the AEScreen
        Customization - Context Menu for the AEScreen
      - Properties of the alert table
      - Example of how to add a user-defined column
      - openAES()
        Opens the alert and event panel at the desired position and allows executing an action such as print the upper table of the alert and event panel or save the table.
      - Alarm filtering
    - Event Manager Connections
    - Memory/Disk Resources
    - System Overview
      A panel for the diagnostics of a WinCC OA system.
    - Diagnostic Tool
    - Continuous Monitoring
      The Continuous Monitoring feature of WinCC OA provides an interface for external tools to read and validate log and error messages of Security Events that were generated by the WinCC OA.
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- Wizard Framework
  Used for easy creation of wizards in a uniform layout style. The key elements "Navigation Bar" and "Bottom Bar" can be customized to fit the needs of the custom wizard.
- XML Panel Format
  The XML (Extensible Markup Language) panel format allows creating WinCC OA panels.
- Simple Symbols, basics
  The "Simple Symbols" functionality is used to simply assign corresponding symbols to data point types and increase the working comfort when working with different symbols.
- ScriptWizard
  Simple wizard for creating graphical user interfaces for users without prior programming knowledge.
- Panel topology/Group alert facility
  Tree structure for process panels with integrated group alert system
- Object-Oriented Panel References
  Reusable objects built with the GEDI tools. Insert them within an existing panel to provide a graphical element.
- Multilingual Projects
  WinCC OA is designed to provide both Native Language Support and Multi Language Support.
- Translator
  The WinCC OA Translator functionality supports you in creating and maintaining multilingual projects. It offers a convenient interface for translation of reusable terms.
- Layout management
  Layouts change the size and position of objects according to parameters previously defined in the GEDI.
- Generic Dialog Framework
  The Generic Dialog Framework is an easy way to generate your own dialogs by adjusting a set of prefabricated panels.
- Simple Configuration
  Simple configuration windows and panels support you in combining events (such as a mouse click) with different actions such as setting data point values, showing panels or changing attributes.
Data Management
Classify, structure and archive your data.
Business Logic / Control
Endless possibilities in data processing for your projects.
Data Visualization
User interfaces, Trends and Reports for every purpose and device.
Southbound Interfaces
The process connection to the actual machines/sensors.
Northbound Interfaces
Your portal to the cloud or supervising systems.
Web Connectivity / Network Interfaces
Data exchange, APIs and web technologies
User Management
All about authorization, authentication and login-customization.
Availability
How to get your system uptime to the maximum.
Reporting
Create state of the art project reports without limits.
Addons
Useful tools and enhancements for special demands.
Reference Tables
Detailed and extensive content for special project adaptation.
Videos & Tutorials
Explore the capabilities of WinCC OA with our carefully selected collection of video tutorials and guides.
WinCC OA Documentation
Basic information about terms and functions within the documentation.
Disclaimer
A brief clarification of liability exclusions or legal notices.

Customization - Context Menu for the AEScreen

The alert and event screen can be customized by adding customized extensions such as context menu items to the alert and event screen.

Open WinCC_OA_Proj/scripts/libs/aescustomizations.ctl, follow the TODO steps there and implement the interface for adding the context menu:

When Row Customization is enabled and you open the Alert and Event screen, the following message is shown: WCCOAui1:["DEMO active: initializeAesRowCustomization()"]
Click Start/Refresh to get the alerts (if your project has none, produce them). Right-click to open the context menu Demo. The menu item will be displayed:
Figure 1. Menu item Demo

and the following will be written to the log:
```
WCCOAui1:["CustomizeAesRow::addMenuItems"]["menuItems"][dyn_string 1 items
WCCOAui1:     1: "PUSH_BUTTON,Demo,1,1"
WCCOAui1:]  
```

When you click the Demo menu item, the following will be written to the log:

WCCOAui1:["CustomizeAesRow::handleMenuItemClick"]["functionId"][1]
WCCOAui1:["Custom menu clicked: "]["functionId"][1]["selectedRows"][mapping 2 items 
WCCOAui1: 0 : mapping 60 items 
WCCOAui1: "#52" : -?- 
WCCOAui1: "abbreviation" : 3 
WCCOAui1:LANG:10000 "W" 
WCCOAui1:LANG:10001 "W" 
WCCOAui1:LANG:10027 "W" 
WCCOAui1: "#38" : -?- 
WCCOAui1: "priority" : 40 
..... skipped 
WCCOAui1: "#59" : -?- 
WCCOAui1:]

When the Row Customization is enabled and you open the Alert and Event screen:
```
WCCOAui1:["DEMO active:
initializeAesPermissionCustomization()"]
```
Click Start/Refresh . When you click the row(s), the following will be written to the log: WCCOAui1:["CustomizeAesPermission::hasAccess(1, 1, 1)"] WCCOAui1:["CustomizeAesPermission::hasAccess() returned TRUE"]