General overview of LOGiCAL
The first thing you see after signing into LOGiCAL is the dashboard
Note!
The views look different, depending on the permissions assigned to you. Also, browser window size or if it is viewed on a mobile device affect the views.
The header row
The header row contains five components:
| Icon | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Menu toggle | Toggle for enlarging / shrinking the navigation bar. | |
| Getting started | Opens this Getting started dialog | |
| Help | Opens this help document. | |
 | Change language | LOGiCAL is translated into many different languages. The language setting is user specific and every user has the possibility to use LOGiCAL in their own preferred language. By selecting your preferred language. The user interface is automatically refreshed and translated to your selected language. |
 | Signed in user | Manage user information in myBeamex, switch organizations (if you belong to several), LOGiCAL settings, subscription details and sign out. |
The navigation bar
The navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen contains the main menu with following items:
| Icon | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Create | Quick link for creating a new instrument. See Create instrument for more details |
| Dashboard | Opens the dashboard view. | |
| Calibrations | Two separate views: One for managing your upcoming calibration tasks and one for completed work. For details, see Manage work and Completed work. | |
| Instruments | View for maintaining your organization's instrument database and provides access to calibration results. See Instruments for more details | |
| References | View for maintaining your organization's reference database. For more details, see References | |
| Lists | View for maintaining different lists used throughout LOGiCAL application. For details, see Lists | |
| Help center | Here you can find
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You know which main navigation item you are working with from a green bar shown on the left side of the active selection.
Note!
Permissions can be used to limit which menu items are visible for a certain user role.
Common elements
Date picker
Where ever you need to select a date within LOGiCAL, it is done using the date picker.
- If you need to select a different year, that can be easily done by clicking the year in the top left corner of the date picker The view changes to show years, from which you can choose the right one.
- Months can be scrolled back and forward with the arrows highlighted in the picture.
- Date is selected by clicking on one.
Once you are done, click Ok
Filter and search
See here for information about how to use the search functionality.
Breadcrumb
Shows the current position in the plant structure. The items in the structure are clickable for easy accessability to parent items. The last item contains an context menu containing both edit and calibration related functionality.
Share
You can share a view with a colleague within your organization by clicking the share button found from the top left part of the view you are working with.
Note!
Permissions can affect whether the the link can be opened by the recipient or not.
List view
See here for more information about list views.
Context help
LOGiCAL contains some context specific help dialogues. They are found in the instrument creation / editing views. By clicking on the question mark, the context help can be opened:
An opened context help example shown below:
