GFE Status Bar

January 27, 2009

The Status Bar appears at the bottom of the GFE display. It contains two complete status bars, each with a message indicator light and message display. At the right side of the two status bars is an indicator for ISC send enabling, a progress bar, and the current time. When a new message is displayed, the appropriate message light will blink. Messages are color-coded (set up in the gfe configuration file) and of the following categories:

Regular: Successful completion of an operation. (default color: green)
Significant: An error message usually indicating an operation cannot be completed. (default color: yellow) When a Significant message occurs, the Significant Messages Dialog will appear.
Urgent: A serious error usually indicating a server or system problem. (default color: red) When an Urgent message occurs, the Urgent Messages Dialog will appear.
Alert: A warning to the forecaster of an event (default color: orange).

To acknowledge a Regular or Alert message and stop the blinking, click MB1 over the message which will change to gray.
To view a list of previous messages, click on the ^ sign to the left of the Status message. The View Messages Dialog will appear.

The ISC Send Enabling indicator looks like a red traffic light, when ISC data will not be sent from this GFE, and looks like a green traffic light, when ISC will be sent from the GFE. The user can control the overall ISC send enable through the Consistency->ISC Send Enable menu entry. The traffic light is red, to denote no ISC traffic will be sent, if the ifpServer ISC configuration is disabled. If enabled, then ISC data will be sent either on saving, publishing, or manually sending the grids via the Send Intersite Coordination dialog.

Most of the status messages will appear in the left status bar. The right status bar is reserved for incoming ISC traffic and Smart Init model arrival messages.

Urgent Messages Dialog

The Urgent Messages Dialog appears with a red message bar. Multiple messages may be active in the Dialog and each must be acknowledged by clicking "Acknowledge." You can acknowledge all the active messages by clicking "Acknowledge All." A history of all messages, including Urgent Messages, can be viewed in the View Messages Dialog.

Urgent Message

Significant Messages Dialog

The Significant Messages Dialog appears with a yellow message bar. Multiple messages may be active in the Dialog and each must be acknowledged by clicking "Acknowledge." You can acknowledge all the active messages by clicking "Acknowledge All." A history of all messages, including Significant Messages, can be viewed in the View Messages Dialog.

Significant

View Messages Dialog

To view a history of status messages, click on the ^ to the left of the Status Bar message. The View Messages Dialog will appear. The messages are color-coded with the most recent listed first. You may scroll or resize the window to see all the messages. Click "Close" to close the dialog.

Progress Bar

The Progress Bar is on the right-hand side of the Status Bar. It shows the progress of a smart tool executing over multiple grids. For point-based smart tools, if the user clicks B3 over the Progress Bar, the smart tool execution will be interrupted. In this case, the progress is shown per grid, so if you are running a point-based smart tool over multiple grids, you will see the progress bar paint for each grid.

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