Key Concepts and Terms
Display / Screen: page or dialog create to use in the Operator user interfaces.
Layout: Organize various displays in a frame, like SIdeBar, TopBar and main content.
Client: Each Operator connected with the server, interacting with the displays.
Client Types
:different Distinct devices and display activation the Operator can use.
Rich Client (Desktop)
Web Client
Smart Client (Desktop)
Mobile Client
Unified Designer
: Combine the creation of Web Responsive Dashboards & Process Synoptics ( Canvas) in one tool.
Canvas Displays (Process Synoptics): represents a process diagram. When resized, the elements keep their relative position on each other, or to the window borders.
ADashboard Display is Displays are for data presentation where the UI components are placed on a responsive grid, organizing the blocks according to the size of the window.
Themes
Mobile & RESS Layouts
- The feature: Both Canvas and Dashboards displays, can be responsive, adapting automatically to user screen size and devices.
- The problem that remains: responsive UI does not solve the issues that a display designed originally to large desktop will never be practical for mobile users.
- The solution: RESS = Responsive Design + Server-Side Components
In a nutshell
RESS = fast + flexible: we detect your device on the server, send only the right page for it, and the layout still responds smoothly to in-between screen sizes.
How RESS works: the server recognizes your device class (phone, tablet, desktop) and delivers a light, tailored page—images, code, and content sized for that device. The page is still responsive, so it adapts fluidly between breakpoints. You get the speed of adaptive delivery with the flexibility of responsive design. See it in action:
Desktop User
Tablet User
Mobile User
Features Highlights
Some of the Displays Module's features:
- Allows the creation of .NET WPF and HTML5 applications from a unified drawing tool.
- The same configuration can execute in both WPF and web clients.
- Create responsive dashboards as well as HMI process screens.
- Allows user-defined layouts, creating displays composed of multiple frames.
- A large set of smart symbols, high-performance graphical symbols, and extensible components are included.
- Support for theme skins, language localization, and units metric system conversion.
- Automatically connects data templates with symbols.
- Displays are dynamically created from the asset model for self-aware SCADA applications.
This documentation section explains the tools available on the Displays Module. The drawing of displays is on the next documentation section: Drawing the User Interface.