RE: [obix-xml] outOfService

["Considine, Toby (Facilities Technology Office)" <Toby.Considine@fac.unc.edu>]

I like the comment about no double negatives, but how about no negatives?
Controls Guys tend to think "what's in alarm".  My perception (and quick
poll) of enterprise guys is more in the line of "What can I get to?"


I'm thinking:

"inService=true"

Or
"available=true"

Or
"onLine=true"

This somehow feels more to me like "All Systems Go" Of course, the
counter-arguments is that true is interesting therefore more intuitive
"payAttention=true" and that this is more similar to the isInAlarm=true that
drives many of today's control UIs.


tc


 

-----Original Message-----
From: ahansen@tridium.com [mailto:ahansen@tridium.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:22 AM
To: obix-xml@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [obix-xml] outOfService

Brian and I would like to change the "outOfService" status flag to
"disabled".  outOfService is BACnet terminology and we believe it is less
meaningful than disabled to enterprise developers.

At Tridium we made this change in our product because we didn't like the
double negative to indicate components were enabled (outOfService=false).

If you care, speak up at the next meeting.