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Customizing the Floorplans View

To customize your floor plan view, click the View tab on the right sliding panel. The View tab displays the list of devices.

The Floorplans navigation menu on the right pane consists of the Properties, View, and Edit tabs. The following table describes the menu options available for a floor:

Table 1: Floorplan Menu Options

Tabs

Options

Properties

The Properties tab has the following menu options:

APs—Displays the total number of APs, the planned APs, and the number of APs that are offline.

Floor name—Displays the floor name.

Floor number—Displays the floor number.

Width—Displays the current width of the floor plan. To change these settings, click the Measure icon and measure a portion of the floor.

Height—Displays the current height of the floor plan. To change these settings, click the Measure icon and measure a portion of the floor.

Gridsize—Displays the grid. Decreasing the grid size enables the location to place clients in a small grid which increases accuracy.

Advanced—Allows you to set the values to indicate if the environment is related to an office space, cubicles, offices, or concrete.

View

The View tab has the following menu options:

Devices—Displays APs, clients, and rogue devices detected on the floor.

AP Overlays—Shows the heatmap for the current and adjacent floors.

Floorplan Features—Displays the following details:

Grid Lines—Allows you to change the grid size and color.

Labels—Shows or hides the labels tagged to the devices on the floor.

Origin—To ensure that multi-floor heatmaps display properly, ensure that your floor plans are vertically aligned. Floorplans use the origination point for this alignment. By default, the origin appears in the upper left corner of the floor plan. You can drag and drop the origin point to the correct position.

Regions—Displays the regions defined within a floor plan. For example, you can define two small regions of high density clients within a larger floor plan with lower client density.

Walls—Displays walls drawn on the floor.

Edits

The Edit tab has the following menu options:

Drawing—Allows you to draw a region or wall for the floor.

Devices—Allows you to add and delete the already deployed or planned devices.

Actions—Displays the following options:

Select All—Selects all floors.

Export Floor Plans—Exports the floor plan of a specific floor.

Undo—Cancels the previous action.

New Floorplan—Allows you to create a new floor plan.

Auto-match Planned Devices—Automatically matches the devices that are planned for deployment and reloads the page.

Go to floor above—Allows you to navigate to the floor above.

Go to floor below—Allows you to navigate to the floor below.

Refresh—Refreshes the page.

Replace Background—Allows you to replace the current background.

User Interface Elements of the Floorplans Dashboard

The Floorplans dashboard provides various options to customize your view. The customizable parameters include:

Table 2: User Interface Elements

UI Element

Description

Click the drop-down to select a specific floor from the site.

Click APs to view the details of the access point and the RF environment.

Click Clients to view the client details.

Click Rogues to view the rogue details.

Click Heatmaps to view the strength of RF coverage in each location. You can view heatmaps in monochrome also. Click the monochrome checkbox in the Floorplans dashboard to select either the monochrome display or the colored display of heatmaps.

Click Walls and Regions to view the segregation of regions and walls in the selected floor.

Click the Refresh icon to refresh the floor plan details.

Click the + or - icon to zoom in or zoom out of a floor plan. You can also scroll to increase or decrease the floor plan view. Additionally, click the box icon to view the floor plan in full screen mode.