Using the Control Tool

The Control Tool lets you perform actions on assets. It is typically brought up from the Viewer, although it can also be brought up from an event in the Work Agenda window. The actions you can perform on assets include tagging an asset, placing a note on an asset, repredicting an outage upstream or downstream from an asset and opening and closing an asset.

Control Tool topics include:

• Understanding the Control Tool

• Highlighting Events in the Work Agenda

• Tagging Assets

• Highlighting Events in the Work Agenda

• Viewing Documents Associated with an Asset

• Viewing Associated Customers

• Adding Notes

• Viewing Asset Attribute Information

• Toggling Call Display

• Viewing Associated Customers

• Using the Look Ahead Dialog Box

• Associating Documents with Assets

• Associating Damage Assessments to an Asset

• Completing and Instructing Actions

For related topics, see also:

• “Using SCADA Control Tool Features ”

• “Web Switching Management”

• “Working with Safety Documents”

• “Using the Training Environment Control Tool”

Understanding the Control Tool

The Control Tool lets you perform asset operations based on the current status of the asset. For example, if an asset is already open, you can close it. If the asset is closed, you can open it.

You can access the Control Tool from the Viewer by double-clicking an asset or by selecting an asset and then clicking the Control Tool button (

) on the Viewer toolbar. If you click the Viewer drawing area without selecting an asset, the system selects the nearest asset.

The name of the asset and its type are displayed at the top of the Control Tool. When operating in Real Time with Web Switching enabled, the tool recording the steps will also be displayed at the top of the Control Tool. Tools that record steps include Switching Sheets, Standalone Safety Documents, Event Details Steps tabs, and the Miscellaneous Log. The recording tool label will be hidden in Study mode if no tool is actively recording Study actions.

The left side of the Control Tool provides a set of buttons with options that you can perform; the options that appear differ depending on the type of asset that the Control Tool was opened from (and so on).