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Chapter 5 Faceplates
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 5 Faceplates ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5-1
5.1 General Information ............................................................................................................................................................. 5-3
5.1.1 Description .................................................................................................................................................................... 5-3
5.1.2 Objectives...................................................................................................................................................................... 5-3
5.1.3 Reference Documentation............................................................................................................................................. 5-3
5.2 Faceplate Overview.............................................................................................................................................................. 5-4
5.2.1 Runtime Views.............................................................................................................................................................. 5-4
5.2.2 Areas.............................................................................................................................................................................. 5-4
5.3 Faceplate handling ............................................................................................................................................................... 5-5
5.3.1 Create a Faceplate aspect .............................................................................................................................................. 5-5
5.3.2 Setup the Faceplate aspect ............................................................................................................................................ 5-5
5.3.3 Set Faceplate as default aspect ..................................................................................................................................... 5-6
5.4 Header .................................................................................................................................................................................. 5-8
5.4.1 Alarm Control ............................................................................................................................................................... 5-8
5.5 Indicators and Aspect Links................................................................................................................................................. 5-9
5.5.1 Indicators....................................................................................................................................................................... 5-9
5.5.2 Aspect Link ................................................................................................................................................................. 5-12
5.5.3 Create an Aspect Link................................................................................................................................................. 5-12
5.6 Faceplate Element .............................................................................................................................................................. 5-14
5.6.1 Create a Faceplate Element......................................................................................................................................... 5-14
5.6.2 Assign Faceplate Element to Faceplate...................................................................................................................... 5-14
5.7 Buttons................................................................................................................................................................................ 5-15
5.7.1 Create Buttons............................................................................................................................................................. 5-15
5.7.2 Enable/Disable Button ................................................................................................................................................ 5-17
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5.1.2 Objectives
After completion of this chapter you will be able to
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Reduced
Faceplate
Extended
Each view has its own geometrical layout. Default runtime view to be launched when
an Operator clicks on a graphics element in a graphics display is the Faceplate view,
but this can be changed. Once the faceplate is opened you can also change the view
via the View Sselection buttons.
5.2.2 Areas
From a configurations point of view, the faceplate is divided into a number of areas,
each separately configurable.
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Each object has one default aspect. This aspect is shown in the preview if you select
the object. The next step is to set the Faceplate aspect as default aspect of the
GenGenerator object.
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5.4 Header
Each faceplate contains a Header Area, which consists of the following Faceplate
parts:
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5. Select the radio button Icon of the Add Label or Icon dialog. Click onto the
Browse button for selecting an icon. Select the icon as shown in the picture
below.
Info: The Process Portal installation installs some icons for usage. These icons
are located in the path
ABB Industrial IT\Operate IT\Process Portal A\Icons and \IconFiles .
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6. Click onto the Add button of the dialog Labels. A new row is inserted. Click
into this new row and into the field Label/Icon. Do all as described before but
this time please select the smiley icon. The next picture is a view on how
your dialog should look like.
7. Now we have two index labels (0 and 1) and for each label we configured an
icon. Click Labels with a click onto OK.
8. Click into the field Expression of the Config View.
9. Write the following expression in the Expression dialog:
iif (Status, 1, 0).
Well this means that if the property Status of our function block object is set
to TRUE, the icon of Index 1 is shown, otherwise the icon of Index 0.
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10. The next step is to give the faceplate configuration information about where to
show the icon. This is been managed by the Reduced pos, Faceplate pos and
Extended pos fields. Each pos exist for a faceplate view.
11. Close all dialogs with a click onto Apply or OK.
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6. Click into the Aspect field of the Config View and select the aspect Alarm List
from the drop down list.
Note: Only this aspects are viewable which really exist at the object.
7. Please select the Main View instead of the Config View of the field View.
8. Click into the Icon/Label field and select the entry Aspect Icon from the radio
buttons (the entry is selected per default).
9. Insert the value 6 for all the positions.
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5.7 Buttons
Buttons that control properties of the object can be inserted in the Buttons area. The
number of button positions shown per row depends on the width of the faceplate view.
The default number of button positions per row is six.
4. Click into the field Label/Icon of the dialog Labels. A new dialog named Add
Label or Icon is viewable.
5. Select Icon and browse an icon.
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6. Click OK for closing Add Label or Icon. Click OK for closing Labels.
7. Click into the field Property name and select a property from the drop down
list. After this the property is connected with the button.
8. Click into the field Property value and assign a value, e.g. FALSE. This value
will be send to the connected property when the button is pressed.
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9. The next step is to setup the view position of the button. This is necessary for
all three views.
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2. Select the field Enabled for a button. Click into the field and write a
expression into it:
iif (Status, TRUE, FALSE)
If the property Status is TRUE then this field is enabled (TRUE), otherwise it
is disabled (false).
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