When connected to OpenSpirit the extension will listen for OpenSpirit events ( data selection, GIS feature selection, grid, and map view definition events) . When the lightening bolt is displayed on the highlighted button this indicates that listening for these events is turned on. Sometimes you may wish to temporarily suspend listening. This is done by clicking the button shown below . When listening is disabled no lightening bolt is displayed. By default, when you first connect to OpenSpirit listening is turned on.
Listening turned off:
Listening turned on: 