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FOR SMartServer 3.3 and prior releases, the LOCATIONS widget is called the Map Widget.

You can create contexts to organize devices within the SmartServer IoT to mirror their locations within the physical site to facilitate effective system planning and navigation. A context is a digital representation of a real world region, area, or space.  You will use the CMS Planning widget (introduced in SmartServer 2.8) to view, create, organize, edit, and delete contexts.  Other CMS widgets use the context information to organize your devices by the contexts you define. For example, you can organize sequence of operations, dashboards, and connections by contexts. See the SmartServer IoT Node-RED Tutorial for a getting started tutorial on creating a sequence of operation and applying it to a context within the system.

For each context you create, you select a context type which can be a campus, building, floor, room, or area.  A campus may be a region, such as Northern California, a site such as the Olympic Village, or a campus such as the University of California.  An area may be an area in a campus, such as a parking lot or street, or an area on a floor such as a VAV zone.  You can associate other system entities such as datapoints, devices and users with these contexts to provide a physical location reference to these entities.  For example, you can use contexts to identify select specific devices or user interfaces such as the following:

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