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Launch Pad Overview
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Launch Pad User Guide
145-1005
2017-06-30
Launch Pad Overview
Launch Pad provides easy access to the applications required for configuring,
monitoring, and controlling the Building Automation System. It includes the BACnet
Field Panel Web User Interface (FPWeb UI) as standard. During the installation of
Launch Pad (an Adobe AIR application), the FPWeb UI files are automatically installed
on the hard drive.
If the FPWeb UI files are deployed to a field panel (Siemens Modular or Compact 36),
the same FPWeb UI files are loaded onto the field panel and can be accessed through
a Web browser. Hence the FPWeb UI is identical when accessed through Launch Pad
or through a browser. Accessing the FPWeb UI through Launch Pad does provide a
cleaner look. For more information about the FPWeb UI functionality (managing trends,
schedules, points, PPCL programs, and more), see the
BACnet Field Panel Web
Server User Guide
(125-3584).
The Launch Pad also allows you to deploy the Application MC tool to a field panel, load
licenses, add shortcuts to other applications, and access user documentation.
General Description
The Siemens Launch Pad is an Adobe AIR-based application that allows you to do the
following:
● Launch Adobe AIR-based FPWeb UI which allows you to interact with Siemens
Ethernet BACnet Field Panels with Web Services enabled, and provides a more
intuitive user interface for database interaction in comparison to line-by-line
command prompts.
● Deploy browser-based FPWeb UI to field panels.
● Deploy browser-based Application MC to field panels.
● Deploy licenses to field panels.
● Add shortcut buttons so that other commonly-used Building Automation System
applications are easily accessible and can be launched from Launch Pad.
● A shortcut button is automatically added, if WCIS has been installed along with
Launch Pad.
– WCIS (Windows Controller Interface Software) is an application to start-
up/commission Siemens Terminal Equipment Controllers (TECs).