This use case applies to the network and equipment graphic components.

In the network and equipment graphic components, predefined business objects can have a specific graphic called the System window, which displays a list of attribute values. You can easily add attributes to the System window through these properties:

You can also specify the description of the attribute. If the description is set, the attribute will be displayed in the System window in the format <description: value>.

The attribute description is configured with the following properties:

In this customization you see that the attribute site is added to the System window and is displayed in the format Site: value.

The following example is from the file:

where <installdir> is the directory where you have installed JViews TGO.

How to Extend a Predefined Business Class

The following extract in XML shows how to define the business class.

<class>
  <name>NMW</name>
  <superClass>ilog.tgo.model.IltNetworkElement</superClass>
  <attribute>
    <name>site</name>
    <javaClass>java.lang.String</javaClass>
  </attribute>
  <attribute>
    <name>vendor</name>
    <javaClass>java.lang.String</javaClass>
  </attribute>
</class>

How to Display an Attribute in the System Window

The following extract in CSS shows how to declare the new attribute, so that its content is displayed in the System window.

Attributes are configured in CSS with the type object and the CSS class formatted as business class/attribute name.

object."NMW/site" {
    label: @site;
    visibleInSystemWindow: true;
    captionLabel: Site;
    captionLabelVisible: true;
}

The property visibleInSystemWindow indicates that the attribute is to be displayed inside the System window graphic.

The property label indicates that the attribute site is to be represented as text with the value of the attribute.

The properties captionLabelVisible and captionLabel indicate whether or not the attribute is to be displayed with a description in the System window.