The Control Tool lets you perform actions on devices. 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 devices include tagging a device, placing a note on a device, repredicting an outage upstream or downstream from a device and opening and closing a device.
The Control Tool lets you perform device operations based on the current status of the device. For example, if a device is already open, you can close it. If the device is closed, you can open it. You can operate all or some of the phases of a device (if the device is a multi-phase device).
You can access the Control Tool from the Viewer by double-clicking a device or by selecting a device and then clicking the Control Tool button () on the Viewer toolbar. If you click the Viewer drawing area without selecting a device, the system selects the nearest device.
The name of the device 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 device that the Control Tool was opened from (pipe, valve, pump, cable, conductor, transformer, fuse, and so on).