Specifications

4 – Using Quick Builder
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Quick Builder Overview
You use Quick Builder to:
• Create an “item” for each Station, printer, and controller, as well as the
channel used by each controller, and each point on the controller
• Define the relevant details of each item by completing the fields in a series
of property tabs.
Quick Builder stores configuration data in a project, which constitutes an “offline
database.” This offline database is separate from your operating PlantScape server
database. You can therefore make as many changes as you like to the Quick
Builder database without affecting the live configuration data.
When you are ready, you can download all or part of the configuration data from
the Quick Builder project to the PlantScape server database.
Figure 4.1, “Typical Quick Builder Window” on page 55 shows the main
components of a Quick Builder window. A Project View consists of:
• An item selector in the left side of the Project View window
• An item list
• A set of property tabs for the selected point in the bottom right of the
Project View window
•Toolbar
•Jumpbar
• Filter selector
• Status line
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