Engineering Documentation
Table Of Contents
- Copyright Notice
- 1 About this document
- 2 Desigo Control Point Operation engineering topics
- 2.1 Tool-free configuration of a Desigo Control Point device
- 2.1.1 Connecting to the Desigo Control Point device
- 2.1.2 Performing the initial login
- 2.1.3 Configuring the Network port for IP (PXG3.Wx00 and PXM… touch panel)
- 2.1.4 Activating the application (PXG3.Wx00 and PXM… touch panel)
- 2.1.5 Assigning devices to the Desigo Control Point device
- 2.1.6 Updating the Network port for a browser connection (PXM… touch panel)
- 2.1.7 Subscribing to the time master and time synchronization for Assigned devices
- 2.1.8 Configuring for kiosk graphics on a touch panel
- 2.2 Tool-free commissioning of the Operation application
- 2.3 Data point integration overview
- 2.4 Plant view Tools
- 2.4.1 Using the graphics wizard to create a graphic
- 2.4.2 Editing a graphic
- 2.4.3 Removing a graphic
- 2.4.4 Displaying the URL of a graphic
- 2.4.5 Exporting graphics for sharing across jobs
- 2.4.6 Importing graphics
- 2.4.7 Enabling graphics and kiosks for room users to view
- 2.4.8 Defining graphics as a startup page
- 2.5 Working with kiosk graphics
- 2.6 Using engineering notations
- 2.1 Tool-free configuration of a Desigo Control Point device
- 3 Graphics engineering with Graphics Builder
- 3.1 Graphics Builder overview
- 3.2 Using the Builder pane tools
- 3.3 Graphics libraries
- 3.4 Workflows
- 3.5 Working with dashboards
- 3.5.1 The Facility manager dashboard user interface
- 3.5.2 The Public dashboard user interface
- 3.5.3 Adding and editing a text box
- 3.5.4 Adding or replacing a background image
- 3.5.5 Adding information from a trended data point
- 3.5.6 Adding external media to a dashboard
- 3.5.7 Working with gauges
- 3.5.8 Editing charts
- 3.6 Creating end-user room graphics
- 3.7 Advanced functionality
- 4 Tips and tricks
- 4.1 Updates required after a time zone change
- 4.2 APPLY BATCH TAGS > Custom Filter button is reserved for future use
- 4.3 Graphic components within models cannot be modified
- 4.4 A graphic with relative binding that includes data points from different branches of the hierarchy cannot be created at the Root level
- 4.5 Relative hyperlinks cannot be added to a graphic at the Root level
- 4.6 Relative hyperlinks in a graphic are broken if the graphic is engineered offline and then imported to another device
- 4.7 Haystack interface
- 4.8 Automatic logout from the Operation application causes Graphics Builder to temporarily stop working
- Index
Graphics engineering with Graphics Builder
Using the Builder pane tools
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Indicator
Name
Description
Text area
An HTML text box that accepts user input for a program.
Video
A component to view videos from the graphics database.
3.2.3 LAYERS pane
The LAYERS pane displays a hierarchical structure for all the components in a
graphic. Components at the top of the list are in the top layer of the graphic.
Components lower in the list are in lower layers of the graphic.
Components can be added to a layer or moved to a different layer by dragging-and-
dropping.
Table 13: LAYERS icons.
Indicator
Name
Description
Show/Hide
Click to show or hide components on the graphic.
Lock
Click to prevent a component from being selected and moved while you
are editing the graphic.
Figure 3: Hierarchical structure of the LAYERS pane.
Displaying layers for editing
The following graphics in the Supersample graphics library contain multiple layers and
use a navigation bar to make one layer visible while hiding all other layers: