Variable notifier: know the application name of your vehicle in an overview application

Using variable notifiers, you can view the name of the application a vehicle belongs to from an overview application. This article describes how to achieve this.

Requirements:

Install and enable the UserSync plugin. Find out how to create an overview application here.

Setup

1. Import this event rule into each of your source applications. Read about how to import event rules.

• This event rule forces the event to trigger and saves the App Name into a variable that will be retrieved later on by the Overview application.

2. Log in to the Overview application (the application where all your vehicles of your server are together).

3. In the Overview application, use any device mapper configuration and map the variable Custom text.

For example, we can use TrackerOne device mapper and map Text1 input to Custom text.

• This variable should correspond to the one used in the event rule from step 1 in each application.

4. Refresh the browser and add the column custom text.

5. Select the variable Custom text from the list.

6. Save the Workspace for the custom column to be saved in the application.

Now when you get activity from your trackers, you'll see the application name updated in that column on the screen.

Additional notes

This feature works with live data. It requires your devices to be active and report to the server before seeing any data in the custom text column in the overview application.