Spine Navigation

Overview

The Spine Navigation allows a user to drill down through their organization hierarchy in a simplified manner, optimizing the speed at which insights can be gathered. Users can see where they are in the hierarchy at any point as it is a core navigational structure on the native dashboards as well as individual applications. 

Use Cases

The Spine Navigation will be utilized by all users in Trane Cloud. Customers will be able to look at their organization, all buildings in the organization, all systems in a building and all assets in a system. Trane Technicians will be able to look at multiple organizations that they service to optimize how they gather insights.

User Access

All users that have access to Trane Cloud will be able to use the Spine Navigation. 

Considerations and Limitations

For insights related to specific levels in the Spine, the user will leverage the associated dashboard to view specific details. 

Customization

The user can access recently selected options by navigating to the appropriate Spine dropdown menu. This selection will change based on previous sessions.

How It Works

The Spine Navigation hierarchy is as follows: 

• Organization: Includes all buildings in an organization 

• Building: Includes all systems in a building 

• System: Includes all assets in a system 

• Equipment: View for specific assets 

When a user clicks the dropdown menu on the Organization Tab, they see a list of available organizations and associated buildings (image to the right). The user can also understand how many systems reside in each specific building before they select one.

Navigating Trane Cloud

When a user hovers over the Building option, a dropdown menu will appear. The user will then click on a specific building and the Spine will update to reflect that building. The dashboard content will change to only show information related to that building. If the user wants to change the building selection, they can click the dropdown next to the current building to get a list of all available buildings (image to the right). The hover behavior to access the Spine menu dropdown options are consistent across each hierarchical level.

Systems are comprised of various assets that work in a common operation (for example: chilled water system). The user can select a specific system or multiple systems in a specific building by navigating to the System dropdown menu (image to the right). Once the system(s) are selected, then the spine navigation will update accordingly.

“Equipment” refers to an individual piece of equipment in a building or system. Equipment is typically connected to a System but is allowed to be a standalone asset. To select one or multiple pieces of equipment, the user will hover over the Equipment button in the spine to see what assets can be viewed. Once selected, the spine option will update accordingly (image below).

Customization

The user can access recently selected options by navigating to the appropriate Spine dropdown menu. This selection will change based on previous sessions.

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