Taking the liberty to throw a ‘feature request’ in the questions here, because I believe there might be some solutions for this:
Given Skyline deals with broadcast and satellite concerns, could a running clock (current time) macro and shape be created. This would be able to create a clock(s) of various times to show the area’s we communicate with as local time and UTC time.
(feature request: Clock macro – DataMiner Dojo)
I guess something like below is what we are after here? To have a few of these clocks on Visual Overview showing different time zones. These are in Visual Overview.
There are a number of visio placeholders that would allow you to display certain times as text: [DataMinerTime], [localtime] and [UTCTime]. Futhermore, you can also use the [SUM:] and [subtract:] placeholders in combination with these time placeholders to display the time in a certain time zone. For an overview of all available Visio placeholders, please consult this help page.
Nice option to handle this! Many thanks for your answer!
So Michiel, if I wanted to add local time would it be a shape with shape data “Info” and value would be [localtime] ?
You can immediately put these placeholders in the text of the shape. It should look something like this: [Sum:[UTCTime],02:00:00]
Additional examples in the RN: https://community.dataminer.services/documentation/dataminer-v9-6-7-release-notes/#21911
For this to work, you need to load the DRS Studio Clock driver on your DataMiner System. This drivers takes the time, converts it in degrees and then uses that to animate the clock graphic in Visual Overview (using the “rotate” for the arrows). Of course, if you prefer a digital clock, you could also just have a background driver generating the time / data as strings and display those in Visual Overview.