User Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 About this document
- 2 Commissioning
- 2.1 Default connection
- 2.2 Initial login
- 2.3 Setup wizard
- 2.4 Discover and assign devices
- 2.5 Subscribing to the time master
- 2.6 Time synchronization of the time master
- 2.7 Registering as a foreign device
- 2.8 Touch panel settings
- 2.9 Operating and monitoring features
- 3 Data point integration
- 4 Graphic features
- 4.1 Plant view Tools
- 4.2 Kiosk graphics
- 4.3 Engineering notations
- 5 Graphics Builder
- 5.1 Overview
- 5.2 Pane tools
- 5.3 Graphics libraries
- 6 Graphics engineering
- 6.1 Using supersample graphics
- 6.2 Optimizing graphics for PXM touch panels and standard devices
- 6.3 Thumbnails
- 6.4 Dashboards
- 7 Advanced functionality
- 8 Tips and tricks
- 8.1 Updates required after a time zone change
- 8.2 APPLY BATCH TAGS
- 8.3 Graphic components within models cannot be modified
- 8.4 A graphic with relative binding that includes data points from different branches of the hierarchy cannot be created at the Root level
- 8.5 Relative hyperlinks cannot be added to a graphic at the Root level
- 8.6 Relative hyperlinks in a graphic are broken if the graphic is engineered offline and then imported to another device
- 8.7 Automatic logout from Desigo Control Point causes Graphics Builder to temporarily stop working
- 8.8 Detection of network interruptions
- 8.9 Cancelling a kiosk log out sequence
- 8.10 Special characters do not display in graphic file names
- 8.11 The color of a graphical component may display incorrectly if the component was copied
- Index
Tips and tricks
Relative hyperlinks cannot be added to a graphic at the Root level
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8.5 Relative hyperlinks cannot be added to a graphic at the Root
level
When adding a Relative hyperlink to a graphic at the Root level of the hierarchy, the Add hyperlinks dialog
box closes when you click OK in the first step of the process.
Specific hyperlinks can be added to a graphic at the Root level of the hierarchy. To reuse the graphic at a
different site, the binding must be manually updated.
8.6 Relative hyperlinks in a graphic are broken if the graphic is
engineered offline and then imported to another device
Relative hyperlinks in a graphic are broken when using either of the following workflows:
● The graphic is engineered offline, exported, and then imported to another device that is either offline or
online.
● The graphic is engineered online, exported, and then imported to another device that was engineered
offline.
To fix the hyperlinks, open the graphic for editing after it is imported to the new device. Then use the hyperlink
tool to set the correct target.
Relative hyperlinks in a graphic are not broken if all steps of the graphic engineering and export and import
process are done online.
8.7 Automatic logout from Desigo Control Point causes Graphics
Builder to temporarily stop working
CAUTION
When working online in Graphics Builder, if the program appears to stop working,
do not close the program! You will lose your work!
Graphics Builder appears to stop working if you are automatically logged out of
the Desigo Control Point. Should this happen, navigate to the Plant view window
and login to Desigo Control Point again. All Graphics Builder features will then
work as expected.
When working online in Graphics Builder, the best practice is to keep Plant view open. However, your Desigo
Control Point session is not kept “alive” by the activity in Graphics Builder.
This issue does not occur when working offline.
Optionally, you can configure a separate user account for engineering graphics that does not automatically log
out. To configure the user account so that it is never automatically logged out, see the
Managing automatic
logout
section of the
Desigo Web Interface User Guide
(A6V11938631).