IC-Web

IC-Web is a web-based version of NEXUS IC, running in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox. It aims to replicate the functionality of NEXUS IC in a web browser, using Javascript and REST, with the exception of Configuration, which is available only from NEXUS IC.

It aims to meet two use cases: read-only access for a large number of users, and read/write access for a smaller number of users with an IC-Web read/write license.

To deploy IC-Web your organisation will need an IC-Web license. Contact support@nexusic.com for details. If your NEXUS IC is hosted within Wood infrastructure, IC-Web may be available via Software as a Service (SaaS).

For the most part, user documentation for NEXUS IC applies to IC-Web. There are a variety of differences related to the different implementation challenges in Javascript/REST versus Windows/SQL. Recent changes in NEXUS IC may not yet be reflected in IC-Web, and vice versa.

Differences

  • After 1 hour of inactivity, your IC-Web will disconnect. Also, after 10 minutes (by default) of inactivity over the entire web server, the web server will disconnect. In either case, tap F5 / Refresh to go back to the login prompt.

  • A variety of tabs, panels, pop-ups, etc. will briefly show a “Loading” throbber when selected.

  • A variety of forms (e.g. Asset Information forms) in NEXUS IC allow in-place editing. In IC-Web, you will instead see an Edit button, which will pop up a modal form for you to do the editing in. This is so that when you complete editing, IC-Web can immediately commit your changes to the REST service.

  • IC-Web pop-up “windows” are not actual windows, and cannot be moved outside the bounds of the web browser.

  • Some data entry controls, such as date/time pickers, will look and work slightly differently in IC-Web.

  • When another user changes data, NEXUS IC will automatically offer to refresh your local copy. IC-Web will not automatically invalidate stale data.

  • NEXUS IC remembers many window and panel sizes and positions in a settings file for each user. IC-Web does not.

  • IC-Web shows version information at top right instead of at bottom right. Other NEXUS IC status bar fields are inapplicable to IC-Web, and are not shown.

  • NEXUS IC has a Search box at the top right. IC-Web instead has a Search box above the Asset tree, which searches only Asset names.

  • The IC-Web asset tree is not yet updated to match the new look in NEXUS IC 6.6.

  • Reports in IC-Web can be delivered via email (just as in NEXUS IC) but cannot be generated and launched directly. The up-side is that an IC-Web user does not have to wait for a report to generate before continuing — the IC-Web server will generate and email the report in the background.

  • Charts in IC-Web are rendered by a third-party library and will not look identical to charts in NEXUS IC. Charts in IC-Web may be slower to render than in NEXUS IC.

  • 3D drawings are supported via a conversion process:

    • Once you are happy with a 3D CAD drawing (you have set up any desired tags for navigation etc), send it to us.
    • We will convert your CAD file to DAE, a 3D format that works well in web browsers and which is understood by IC-Web.
    • You (or we) can then load that file into your NEXUS Library as a Drawing on the same asset in the same Library Category group as your original CAD drawing.
    • NEXUS IC will list both files in the drawing panel but only the CAD files renders in 3D; DAE is an unsupported drawing format for NEXUS.
    • IC-Web will display the DAE file as a 3D scene.

    In 3D drawings in IC-Web, hold left mouse button and drag to rotate, right mouse button and drag to pan, and use mouse wheel or hold middle mouse button and move up/down to zoom.