QuickStart User Guide

V1.02

 


Index

Common Page Controls. 2

Keyboard Controls. 12

Alarm Page. 12

Trend Page. 19

Customising My View.. 32

 

 

 


1         Common Page Controls

At the top of every page is a tool and information bar.  This bar can be in three different formats, but the information in each is essentially the same.  The standard tool bar is shown below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.1        Zoom out

The Zoom out button is used to display the page, which is logically the ‘parent’ to the one that is currently being displayed.  For example, if you were currently displaying a page, which was for a major area of your plant, then pressing Zoom out may display the overview of your entire plant.

 

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1.2        Display Homepage

The Display Homepage button will display your normal or favourite page.   You can only have one favourite page.  You can set up your favourite page with the customisation features.  Learn about customising your interface here

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1.3        Display Menu

This button has two functions – a left mouse click will display a new window with a ‘tree view’ of all available pages in the system, from which you may select the one you wish to display:

 

A right mouse click on this button will display a menu like that on the windows start menu, with similar entries as in the tree:

 

 

…From which the page you wish to display may be selected.

 

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1.4        Display Help

Clicking on this button will display this help file.

 

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1.5        Display Trends

Clicking on the display trends button will display a form asking you to select the trend you which to display, or take you directly to the trend page associated with the currently displayed graphics page.   If there is no trend page associated, then the following form is displayed:

 

The three entries shown here demonstrate the three possibilities you may have:  You may load a trend page, which you personally have created earlier – these are designated with your user name followed by the colon.  Alternatively, you may display one of the pre-defined trend pages, which the person who set up your system has configured.  These do not have a username designated against them.  Finally, you may create a new, blank trend page.  If you do either of the first two options, the trend page will be displayed, together with the trend pens on it, which were configured or saved earlier.  The last option will cause another form to be displayed:

 

On this form, you may type in a new trend name.   If you have engineer or better privilege, then the ‘Default Trend’ checkbox will be available, and you can make the trend you create available to all users.

See also the section about the trend page.

 

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1.6        Display Alarms

This button will take you to the alarms page.

 

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1.7        Input Echo

This is a display window.  It echoes what you type on the keyboard or displays words, which describe the functions of the keyboard combinations you press.

 

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1.8        System Messages

This display window shows messages, which Quickstart from time to time displays.  None of them are of a critical nature – they include things like – the page specified does not exist, or the window you have selected cannot be displayed twice, etc.

 

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1.9        Page Previous

The page previous button displays the page, which is logically next to the current page, at the same level.  Perhaps the easiest way to view it is through a tree view of the pages in an example system:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


In this example, the pages indicated by ‘primary’, ‘secondary’ and ‘tertiary’ are all at the same logical level.  If you were currently displaying the ‘secondary’ page, then the page previous button would display the primary button.

Note:  The functionality described here is the default for Quickstart, however it is possible for the configurer of your system to over-ride it and make different pages neighbours to each other.

 

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1.10   Page Next

The page next button works the same way as the page previous button, except that the page in the opposite direction (from the perspective of the page tree) is displayed.  For example, if the ‘secondary’ page is being displayed at the moment, then the ‘page next’ page would be ‘tertiary’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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1.11   Last Page

The last page button will display the page you were one, before you displayed the current page.  This button will display the page before that and so on, for up to 10 pages.

 

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1.12   Page Up

Depending upon how the person who implemented you system chose to use Quickstart, the page up and page down buttons may only be available on the alarm pages.  The page up button will display a page, which is numbered one less than the current page.  In the case of graphic or other pages, this may have proven necessary of there was more information for a given logical portion of the plant which could be displayed on a single page, so two or more numbered pages were used.  On the alarm, system alarm and alarm summary, the page-up button will display the previous page of alarms, provided that page 2 higher page of alarms is currently being displayed.  See also page down.

 

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1.13   Page Down

In similar fashion page up the page down button will display continuation pages from the current page.  On the alarm, system alarm and alarm summary pages, the button will display the next page of alarms down from the one currently displayed (if there are any).

 

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1.14   System Alarms

Pressing this button will display the System Alarms page.  The system alarms page displays information about problems Citect may be having communicating with field controllers or configuration errors or other problems.

 

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1.15   Last Alarm

The last alarm display displays the most recent, unacknowledged alarm in the default areas and categories selected for the currently logged in user.  For information about setting up areas and categories for users, see The Alarm Page.

This button will display the alarm page.

 

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1.16   Page Title

This display field shows a descriptive title for the current page.  The internal page name can be obtained from the tool tip of the page title.

The page title, with the tool tip displayed.

 

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1.17   Time/Date

This section of the page displays the current time and date, as set currently set up on the PC.

 

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1.18   User

The user control indicates the name of the currently logged in user.  In addition, clicking on the name will cause the login form to be displayed:

 

 

A valid username and password need to be typed in here, otherwise the following message will appear:

 

If a correct username and password are typed in then a progress form will be displayed:

 

This will be displayed until the users’ preferences are fully loaded.  Typically, a new page will be displayed as the user will generally have a different home page to the one which was being displayed.

 


2         Keyboard Controls

There are quite a few controls available from the keyboard as well as from buttons on the screen, and it is often more convenient and quicker to use these that to wrestle with the mouse or in some cases remember which page some controls are located on.

 

Key Sequence

Function

Security Level

ALT-F4

Shutdown

Configurable *

CTRL-L

Login another user

All

INSERT

Show the start-type menu

All

HOME

Display the users home page

All

CTRL-P

Display system information about the nearest live animation

Engineer

<Page Name Fragment>

Display the first page with an ending which matches

All

CTRL-A

Add a variable from the nearest AN to the watch window, and display the watch window if it is not already displayed

All

CTRL-W

Display the watch window

All

Spacebar

Silence the current audible alarms

All

ALT-P

Print the screen to the current users selected printer

All

CTRL-K

Display the kernel

Engineer

CTRL-Page Down

Same as Page Down button

All

CTRL-Page Up

Same as Page Up button

All

Page Up

Same as Page Previous button

All

Page Down

Same as Page Next button

All

Esc

Same as Zoom out button

All

Home

Same as Home button

All

ALT-T

Same as Tool tips selection

All

F4

Same as Trend Button

All

CTRL-D

Disable the currently highlighted alarm (on the alarm page or in the alarm banner)

Engineer

CTRL-E

Enable the currently highlighted alarm (on the alarm page, when disabled alarms are being displayed)

Engineer

 

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3         Alarm Page

 

 

The alarm page displays alarms current alarms which the user has access to.  The page looks like this:

At the top, are the common page controls.  At the left hand side are the alarm page controls and in the centre-right are the alarms themselves.  The colour code for the alarms is described in alarm display colours

 

3.1        Alarm Display Colours

The following table describes the alarm display colours:

 

State\Category

Urgent

Warning

Logged Event

On/Unacknowledged

Black on Red

Black on Yellow

Black on White

On/Acknowledged

Red on Black

Yellow on Black

White on Black

Off/Unacknowledged

Green on Red

Green on Yellow

Green on White

Off/Acknowledged

Green on Black

Green on Black

Green on Black

Disabled

Grey on Black

Grey on Black

Grey on Black

 

 

3.2        Alarm Page Controls

The alarm page controls are mostly located at the left hand side of the alarm page:

These alarm page filters will only affect the view of alarms while the alarm page is being displayed.  Once the alarm page is left, the filters will be restored.  If it is desirable to save the settings as default, then the save current alarm configuration button can be pressed

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


In addition to the controls on the left hand panel, there are two controls on the standard template which server a slightly different purpose when the alarm page is displayed:

 

The page up and page down buttons will display the next page of alarms (if the is one) or the previous page (if you are displaying any but the last page currently)

 

3.3        Area Pre-Selections

The alarm preselections buttons are used to set the alarm area filters to a known state.  The known states are:

 

  Display Controllable Areas

This button will cause all of the areas that the currently logged in user can control to have their alarms displayed.

 

  Display Viewable Areas

This button will cause all of the areas that the currently logged in user can view to have their alarms displayed.

 

  This button will cause no alarm areas to be displayed.  Note:  The System alarms area is always displayed.

 

  Default alarm area selection

This button will cause the users’ default alarm areas to be displayed.

 

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3.4        Area Selection/Display

This selection of controls displays which areas are currently having their areas displayed.  The areas being displayed will have the ‘pressed in’ look.  If there are arrows and a scroll bar displayed, then there will be areas which the user may be able to select, or may even be selected, the status of which cannot be viewed until the arrows a pressed so that their buttons come into view.  Note that the scroll bar buttons are currently the only way of altering the area buttons that are currently being displayed on the control.  The square that moves up and down purely shows how far down the list you are, and cannot be dragged to the desired location.

The names on the buttons should reflect the names of the areas of your plant, for example “Primary”, “Secondary” etc.

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3.5        Audible Alarm Area Display

If the  Hide/Show audible alarm configuration button is pressed, small icons will be displayed next to each of the alarm areas:

 

 

The ones with the red cross will not produce an audible alarm, whilst the ones with the blue ‘wave’ will produce an audible alarm (provided audible alarms have been configured elsewhere in the system).  The status of this control can be toggled with a click of the mouse on them.  These selections will only be in force until the user logs in again, unless they are saved.

If the user does not have engineer privilege, then they will be prompted for an engineer username and password to change this setting:

 

 

If a valid engineer username and password are not entered, then the change will not be made and the system will display the following message:

 

 

..and will ask again, until the cancel button is pressed.

 

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3.6        Type Selection

 

 

 

The 5 ‘types’ of alarms depicted here are, from top to bottom, ‘Active’, ‘Unacknowledged’, ‘Acknowledged’, ‘Disabled’ and ‘All’.

Active alarms are those that are either ‘On’ or ‘Unacknowledged’ or both.

Unacknowledged alarms are those that the user has not yet acknowledged, either by clicking on the alarm itself or by clicking on one of the multi alarm acknowledge buttons.

Acknowledged alarms are those which are still on, but have been acknowledged by the operator.

Disabled alarms are alarms which have been disabled by an engineer-level user, because they are currently faulty or giving misleading information.

The ‘all alarms’ button displays all configured alarms in the system, whether they have any active status or not.  See Alarm Display Colours for details of the way alarms in different states are displayed.

 

The alarm display type buttons are ‘mutually exclusive’ that is, only  one may be selected at a time.  Selecting one will cause the others to be deselected.

 

The selection of these buttons will be lost once the page has been left unless the configuration is saved.

 

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3.7        Category Selection

 

 

The alarm categories which can be selected from this control are, from top to bottom:  Urgent, Warning, Logged or Events, and All.

Urgent alarms are alarms that require the immediate attention of the operator as plant or personnel may be in danger, or loss of production is imminent.

Warning alarms are alarms that indicate process parameters are currently outside normal operating parameters, or is in an abnormal state, but loss of danger to plant or personnel in not imminent and production is not currently being lost, however if the current situation continues, the state of the plant may become worse to the point where an urgent alarm occurs.

Logged or Events alarms are not really alarms at all, but are rather logs of normal happenings in the plant, such as a pump starting on a process level low, in order to replenish it, and then stopping again once the tank is sufficiently full.

These three controls are independent and any or all of them may be selected.  This is in contrast to the final control which is mutually exclusive to the first three.

The final control is the display all categories control.  This will display all alarms, in all categories, including those which have not been assigned specifically to a category.

The selection of these buttons will be lost once the page has been left unless the configuration is saved.

 

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3.8        Custom Filter Form Selection

The custom filter form will display a form like the following:

 

 

This form will display tags based upon the settings selected.

When such a filter is in place, the button will be pressed in:

If the custom filter is no longer required, pressing the button again will remove it.

For more information about setting custom alarm filters, press the help button on the form.

 

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3.9        Acknowledging Alarms

Acknowledging alarm may be done in one of three ways:

 

Acknowledge the current page of alarms.  All unacknowledged alarms on the currently displayed page of alarms, which are in the currently logged in users controllable area will be displayed.

 

Acknowledge all alarms.  All unacknowledged alarm in the currently logged in users controllable areas will be acknowledged whether they are currently being displayed or not.

           

Click on the alarm, either in the last alarm banner, or on the alarm page.  The alarm clicked upon will be acknowledged, provided that it is in the currently logged in users’ controllable area.

 

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3.10   Printing Alarms

The currently viewable alarms may be printed to the users’ printer simply by pressing this button.

 

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3.11   Saving Alarm Configuration

Most of the filtering etc will be lost when the alarm page is left, or if the user is logged out.  In order to save the current setup as the default for the user, the save configuration button needs to be pressed.  If the current user has engineer privilege, then the settings will be saved with no further intervention.  If the user is an operator or viewer, the system will require that an engineer username and password be entered:

 

 

Once an engineer password has been entered, the settings will be saved.  If an engineer user name and password are not forthcoming, then the following message will be displayed:

 

 

…and the settings will not be saved.

 

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4         Trend Page

The trend page in Quickstart is a new concept in trend page configuration for Citect.  There is just one page which takes information from a database about which trend pens are to be displayed.  New trend page configuration can be saved on a per user or system-wide basis.

The trend page can be displayed either by pressing the trend button on the standard template or by pressing the key-sequence which will invoke the trend page.

Once displayed, the trend page will either be blank, with the name you were asked to give it, or it will have the pens from the trend you requested.  If there was a trend page configuration associated with the page you were displaying before, the pens from it will displayed without further intervention.  If a blank or different configuration was required, it is necessary to press the button or key-sequence again, to get the trend menu.

A trend page looks like this:

Text Box:

* The trend pane is normally black, but for the purposes of this illustration it has been whitened.

 

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4.1        Trend Scroll Controls

The trend scroll controls are used to change the time for which the trend data is displayed. 

 

 Moves the trend pane back in time by one full trend pane’s time.

 

 Moves the pane back in time by half of the period displayed in the trend pane.

 

 Moves the trend pane forward in time by one half of the current trend pane span.

 

 Moves the trend pane forward by the full time displayed in the trend pane.

 

 Mves the trend pane so that it is displaying current data, that is, the rightmost part of the trend shows real-time data.

 

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4.2        Trend Zoom Controls

The trend zoom controls may be used either in conjunction with the rubber-banding controls or by themselves.

When used in conjunction with the rubber banding controls, the zoom in control -  zooms into the area selected.

 

To make a ‘rubber band’ selection on the trend, you must first activate the cursor by clicking on the trend pane away from where you wish to make the rubber band selection.  Next, click on the trend pane at the top left hand corner of the section you wish to zoom into, then, while holding the mouse button down, drag to the bottom right hand corner of the area of interest, then release.  Finally, press the zoom in button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The area of interest will then be displayed in the entire pane.

 

Text Box:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To restore the original zoom factor, the zoom-out button -  may be pressed, resulting in a similar display to the original pane:

 

 

Text Box:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other way that the zoom buttons can be used is without the rubber-band functionality.  This way, the central quarter of the current trend pane will zoom to fill the screen when the zoom-in button is pressed, and when the zoom-out button is pressed, the current trend pane becomes the centre quarter of the trend.

 

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4.3        Trend Span and Period

These two indications/controls are used to control and display the amount of information on the trend, the period which it covers, and the time interval that a ‘pixel’ on the screen represents.

The lefthand control is the trend span.  This time represents the total amount of time that the trend pane is displaying.  It can be changed by clicking on the time interval displayed, which will display a keypad entry form:

A new time span may then be typed in, and if the OK button is then pressed, it will be applied to the trend pane, and the amount of trend data requested will be displayed.  Changing the span time will have a corresponding effect on the period or resolution of the trend.

The trend period (or resolution) can be changed in a similar way to the span.

 

Typing in a time interval here will have the effect of displaying the time intervals amount of information per pixel on the screen.  This will have a corresponding effect on the trend span.  Typing in 1 hour here will result in a span of 867 hours, since there are 867 pixels across the trend pane.

 

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4.4        Trend Start Time/Date

The time and date at the bottom left of the trend pane are the time and date of the information at the leftmost area of the trend.  Clicking on these controls, however, will produce controls for changing the trend end time and date.  This is because the trend span and end time together completely define the trend start time, so it is not itself directly editable.

 

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4.5        Trend Pen Control and Indication

The trend pen control and indication panel at the bottom of the screen allows the selection of a trend for the pen and the viewing of the description for the pen, as well as the current or cursor value, depending upon whether a cursor is present.

A trend may be chosen for a pen by clicking on the place where the description is displayed.  This will produce a form similar to the following:

 

 

The desired trend can then be selected from the drop-down list box.  The ‘select from comments’ checkbox will cause the drop-down list box to contain the comments of the trend pens.  These will usually be full descriptions of the trends and may be easier to choose from:

 

 

Once the trend is selected, the add button can be pressed, and the selected trend will be assigned to the pen chosen.

Similarly, clicking on the pen description, and then pressing the delete button on the select pen form can remove the trend on a pen.

The pen can also be cleared by pressing the ‘delete’ key (on the keyboard)

 

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4.6        Trend Pane

The trend pane is large, and black, and contains the traces of the currently selected trend pens. 

The trend pane can be clicked upon display the cursor, or clicked and dragged to produce a rubber band.

 

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4.7        Copy data to Clipboard

Pressing the trend data to clipboard button -  will cause the currently displayed trend data to be copied to the windows clipboard.

If a rubber band selection is currently active, only the period covered by the rubber band will be exported to the clipboard.

The data on the clipboard may then be pasted into Microsoft ® Excel or similar producing a result like this:

 

The data may then be manipulated as desired.

The data cannot be pasted into a text-only editor.

 

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4.8        Copy data to File

The export data to file button -  works in a similar way to the copy to clipboard function, except that the data is sent to a file in dbase, CSV (comma Separated Values) or txt (plain text) format.  These files may then be placed onto other media for backup or imported into a wide range of other programs for further analysis.

Once the data has been selected and the button pressed, then the save file dialog will be displayed:

 

This dialog allows the selection of the location where the resulting file will be placed as well as the name and format that the data will be saved with.  Pressing the save button will complete the export process and the file will be available from the previously selected location for further processing.

 

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4.9        Print

The print button -  will send a plot of the current trend to the default printer or to the printer chosen, in either colour or black on white.

Pressing the button produces the following form:

Pressing OK will print the page with the parameters selected.

 

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4.10   Toggle Grid

The toggle grid button -  will cause a grid to appear (or disappear) at 25% intervals across the trend both vertically and horizontally:

 

 

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4.11   Trend End Time/Date

 

The trend end time and date controls display the time and date at the extreme right of the trend pane.

Clicking on these will cause forms to pop-up which allow new times to by typed or clicked it:

 

 

 

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4.12   Cursor Controls

The cursor is a convenient method of finding the value of a trend pen ad a particular time and date, or of finding out the time and date of a particular event in a trend.  The trend cursor is activated by first clicking on the trend pane.  A vertical white line will appear on the trend pane an the cursor controls will appear:

 

 

The cursor controls are located at the right hand side of the trend pane, between the pen scales.

The button labelled ‘cursor’ causes the cursor to disappear.  The time and date fields shown are the time and date of where the cursor is currently displayed.  The time and date or location of the cursor cannot be entered here, but may be changed by clicking on the trend pane near to the cursor and dragging it to the location required.  If the trend end time or zoom is changed, the cursor physical position on the screen will be maintained, whilst its’ time and date will be changed.

While the cursor is being displayed, the trend pen control and indication section will display the cursor value for the pen rather than the latest information.

When the desired time has been located with the cursor, values of the pen can be read from the pen section.

 

 

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4.13   Revert

This button -  will cause the page to revert to its’ stored state – all changes to pens and scales etc will be lost.

 

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4.14   Save

 

This button -  will save the current trend page configuration to the current, or a new or any other existing trend page configuration.

 

The default is to save the current page back to its’ present location.  If you choose to do this you will be asked:

 

 

…or similar.  If you choose OK then you will overwrite the existing definition, otherwise no action will be taken.

If the current user is not an engineer, then the option to save as a default trend will not exist.  Default trend are trends which are available to all users. The system will offer to save default trends as trends belonging to the current user, when the user does not have engineer privilege.  Users with engineer privilege have the opetion of overwriting the existing default trend definition or creating or updating a user or default trend definition as they desire.

 

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4.15   Delete

 

This button will produce a form with a list of all trend page definitions from which the user may choose a definition to delete.  The list will only contain trends which the user has permission to delete.  In the case of users with engineer privilege, this is all of the default trends, plus all of their own user trends.  For operator level users, only their own trends will be displayed for deletion.

 

 

Pressing OK while the trend name is being displayed will cause the trend definition to be deleted, once the confirmation has been OK’d.

 

 

A progress bar will be displayed while the page is being deleted:

 

 

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4.16   Trend Pen Scales

The high and low scales of the currently displayed trend pens are displayed on the right hand side of the page:

 

These may be changed on an individual basis, or if desired, all at once.  Clicking on one of the scales will display a number entry form:

 

 

Once an new value has been entered, and the OK button pressed, the following form will be displayed:

 

 

Clicking accept will cause the entered scale to be applied to all pens, or just the pen whose scale was originally clicked on, depending upon which selection is chosen here.

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5         Customising My View

Each user may customise certain aspects of their user interface.  The majority of these are accessed from the right-mouse-click when performed anywhere on the page (apart from the menu button).  Pressing the right mouse button will cause the following menu to be displayed near where the mouse cursor is currently:

 


           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Releasing the right mouse button and choosing the selection by clicking on it with the left mouse button selects the items.

For all of these settings, unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

Each of these selections is described below:

 

5.1        Select Colour

 

Choosing the select colour option will cause the following form to be displayed:

 

Choosing one of these colours and pressing OK will cause it to be the colour used for the background of the ALARM PAGES.  It may also be used on other pages in the system, if configured by your integrator or engineer.

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

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5.2        Select Template

 

The select template selection will cause the following form to be displayed:

 

 

Selecting ‘standard’ will choose the toolbar which Quickstart comes with by default.  The Alarms option will select a toolbar with 3 alarms displayed on it.  The Touch Screen option will enable a toolbar with large buttons for easy selection from a touch screen.

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

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5.3        Display Watch Window

 

The Display Watch Window will display a window with the current selection of watch variables for the current user.  If the user has no watch variables selected at the moment, the following message will be displayed:

 

Alternatively, if there are watch tags configured, then a window similar to the following will result:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The watch window will continue to be displayed until it is closed or all of the watch variables are removed.

To add variables to the watch windows, place the mouse over an animation of interest and press CTRL-A.  A form similar to the following should be displayed, or if there is only one variable on the animation, it will be added forthwith.

 

 

Once a tag is selected from here, and the OK button pressed, the tag will be added to the watch window, provided that there is a free space.

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

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5.4        Change Language

 

Provided that the correct language.dbf has been created for the language in question, selecting your desired language from the form resulting from this selection will result in all text in the system being represented in that language.

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

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5.5        Set as Home Page

 

Choosing this setting will set the current page to be home page for the user.

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

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5.6        Tool Tip Settings

 

Selecting this item will cause the following form to be displayed:

From it, the desired settings for tooltips can be configured for the user.

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

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5.7        Select Printer

 

This selection will produce the printer selection form.  Any printer configured on the machine may be selected as the users’ default printer from this form.  All uer-initiated printed output will then be directed to this printer.

 

NB: unless Save Settings is selected afterwards, the changes will be lost next time a different user logs in or the workstation is rebooted.

 

 

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5.8        Save Settings

 

This will save most of the settings for user-definable characteristics of the system, so that they become the default for the user the next time they log into the system.

If the user is not an engineer, then when the alarm settings are saved, a su level 4 will be required – see save alarm page configuration for more details.

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5.9        Set Default User

 

This will set the current user to be the default for the current workstation.

 

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