Site Structure

Create Sites, Areas and Equipment, and reorganize the tree using drag-and-drop.

The OEE site structure has three node types — Site → Area → Equipment — and a small set of rules about which can be a parent of which. This page covers how to create each level and how to move nodes around afterwards.

OEE Sites tree — a Site (Mintastic Fredericia) expanded to show its Areas and Equipment; other Sites appear collapsed below

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Node types and rules

Node	Allowed parent	Allowed children
Site	(top level — none)	Areas
Area	Site	Equipment
Equipment	Area	(leaf — none)

Sites cannot be nested under other Sites; Equipment cannot live directly under a Site without an Area in between. The drag-and-drop logic enforces this — drops on illegal targets are silently rejected.

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Create a Site

1. On the OEE Sites page, choose + New Site above the tree.

2. Fill in the dialog. The fields are the same as on the Site Settings tab — at minimum:

   • Site name (required)

   • Time Zone (required, defaults to Europe/Berlin)

   • Data Store (recommended — without it the Site cannot calculate OEE; only data stores with the OEE purpose appear in the dropdown — see Prerequisites)

3. Optionally drop a marker on the map by clicking the desired location, or type Latitude / Longitude directly.

4. Choose Ok.

The new Site appears in the tree and is selected so you can continue configuring it.

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Add an Area

1. Select the Site you want to add the Area to.

2. Open the kebab (⋮) menu on the Site node, or right-click it, and choose Add area.

3. Enter a name in the prompt and confirm.

Area context menu — Add Equipment, Rename, and Delete actions on hover or right-click

Areas are pure containers — they only have a name and description. See Areas for details.

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Add Equipment

1. Select the Area you want to add the Equipment to.

2. Open the kebab menu on the Area, or right-click it, and choose Add Equipment.

3. Enter a name in the prompt and confirm.

Equipment context menu — Rename and Delete actions on the leaf node

The new Equipment is created with OEE disabled. Open the Equipment tab to enable it and configure tags, shifts, stops, and so on.

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Rename a node

1. Select the node.

2. Open the kebab / context menu and choose Rename.

3. Edit the name and confirm.

Renaming has no side-effects beyond the display name — IDs do not change, and references from elsewhere in the platform still resolve.

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Reorganize the tree (drag-and-drop)

Re-parenting Areas or Equipment is gated by the reorder toggle so you don’t move things by accident:

1. Click the lock / arrows toggle next to + New Site. The tree icon switches from a lock to up/down arrows.

2. Drag the node onto a new parent:

   • Drop Equipment onto an Area to re-parent it. Dropping it onto another Equipment moves it under that Equipment’s Area.

   • Drop an Area onto a Site to re-parent it. Dropping it onto an Area or Equipment moves it under that node’s Site.

   • Sites cannot be moved — drag is cancelled at the start.

3. When you’re done, click the toggle again to lock the tree.

When you move a node between Sites, the entire subtree moves with it.

The tree is saved after each successful drop — there’s no separate "Save reorder" action.

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Delete a node

1. Select the node.

2. Open the kebab / context menu and choose Delete.

3. Confirm in the dialog.

Deleting a Site removes the Site and everything under it. Deleting an Area removes the Area and any Equipment under it.

Enabled equipment blocks deletion. If the node you’re deleting (or any descendant) has OEE enabled, the operation is cancelled and an error lists the offending equipment names. Open each one, set OEE Enabled to off on the Equipment tab, save, and try again.