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What is a Project? What is a Project?

What is a Project?

This framework is a powerful platform used to develop and deliver applications that manage real-time information. Applications built with the platform are organized into projects.

A project holds the configuration for the various functional Modules, such as Tags definition, Alarms, Communication, Displays and others.

We refer to the tool used to select and open a project as Project Management.

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Project Manager Project Manager

Project Management

The Project Management is the first interface you see when you start the platform. This interface allows to create, open, edit and run projects located in your computer or remote ones.

Some very unique and powerful features about project management tools include:

• This interface is product version agnostic. You can manage and open projects created with different product versions without upgrading the project in the field or switching the engineering tool in your computer.
• The platform creates a file for each project. All configuration, including tag definition, displays drawing, images and report templates is stored in a single file — an encrypted SQL database with extension .tproj — for easy management.
• You can open multiple projects at the same time or allow multiple engineers to work on each project.

Project View Selector

The middle box is called Project Selector and shows a list of projects on your computer or on a remote computer set previously. Click Refresh to update the projects list. 

Each item in the project selector is a complete project with the configuration for an application.

Each image below is an independent project. On the top right corner, you can select List, Cards or Table view.

List View

Card View

Table View

Your License

Your License presents information about the software license. There are flexible options for licensing according to each business' needs. See Managing Licenses for more information.

Find Projects

Clicking Finding Projects allows managing the Project Server Service settings. There are two options for Project Server: Localhost or Remote. If you select Remote, you will need to set it up. See Project Server for more information.

Help

Clicking the Help button (blue question mark icon) opens the Are you new here? dialog box which contains some suggestions to get started. It also contain links to our , documentation and forum pages.

Notifications

The bell icon located in the bottom right corner opens the Notifications box.

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Creating New Projects Creating New Projects

Creating New Projects

To create a  new project:

1. On the Project Management, click New....

2. Select a platform where your project will be installed and click Next.

3. Select a product family and a product model. Then, click Next.
4. Put a name and a short description to the new project 
5. Enter desired information. See more information about each field below.

6. Click Create New Project to finish.

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Editing or Viewing Projects Editing or Viewing Projects

Editing and Viewing Projects

The View button opens a ready-only version of the project configuration, which is very useful if you just want to put the project in execution or check its configuration. 

The Edit button enables modifications in the project. You may need to use the Logon button in the toolbar before editing if the Security projections were enabled to that project. 

Many projects can be opened at the same time. When a second instance of the same project is opened, the second instance will open as read-only.

To enable concurrent users, your project server must be licensed for multiple engineers. See Managing Licenses for more information.

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RunningProjects RunningProjects

Running Projects

You can run a project by:

• Using the Run button.
• Setting an Auto-Start option at the Server tab. <<<< ainda tem a tab Server? >>>>
• Starting the execution manually after you open the project for editing (Execute → Startup → Run Startup). 

Both Test Project and Run Project, will start the project execution. The difference is the Test Project will use any testing configuration created in the Project, such as alternate database connections, and other tools that simplify the development and validation cycle of the Project. <<<< ainda tem a tab Server? >>>>

For more information, see Running Projects.

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Upgrading Projects Upgrading Projects

Upgrading Projects

Projects retain information about the platform's version used to create the Project.

Opening a project with a previous version without upgrading it will require a platform's equivalent version installed.

Also, you can upgrade the project to the latest version using the Upgrade Version command button. 

When Upgrading:

• A copy of the project is executed, creating a new file named: <project-name>-<preivous-vesion>.tproj.
• A new empty project is created named <project-name>.tproj.
• The Previous project is imported to the new project.

After upgrading, it is recommended to open the new project and build it (Execute → Build and Publish → Build... operation), so the system checks all its scripts.

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Project Templates Project Templates

Project Templates

Pre-built project templates get you started faster by building the solutions you need. Some project templates are available when you install the software, such as Blank, Default, TrendChart, TrendChart with Alarm Pages and Alarm Footer, Redundancy projects, and Asset Viewer.

Template	Blank	Default	TrendChart	TrendChart and Alarm	TrendChart and Alarm Footer	Redundancy
Log on dialog
Several themes
Header page navigation using Industrial Icons
Empty Main page
Layout with Header and Main page
Server Information page using the Dashboard display
System information template and Scripts
System Information Data Historian configuration
UI data template
TrendChart display
TrendChart data templates
Alarm Online display
Alarm Historical display
Alarm data template
Alarm Footer display
Redundancy Information display

Select and run a template to check the displays available on each template, and explore its settings. By that, you can check if one of the templates meet your needs and speed up your project development.

In addition, you can add or create more templates on your own.

Adding New Templates

The templates presented when creating a new project are standard project files located in the product installation folder in Templates. 

If you receive a new template from your vendor or integrators, copy it to that project.

To add a new template, create a project and save it as a Template.

The View button opens a ready-only version of the project configuration, which is very useful if you just want to put the project in execution or check its configuration. 

The Edit button enables modifications in the project. You may need to use the Logon button in the toolbar before editing if the Security projections were enabled to that project. 

Many projects can be opened at the same time. When a second instance of the same project is opened, the second instance will open as read-only.

To enable concurrent users, your project server must be licensed for multiple engineers. See Managing Licenses for more information.

Projects retain information about the platform's version used to create the Project.

Opening a project with a previous version without upgrading it will require a platform's equivalent version installed.

Also, you can upgrade the project to the latest version using the Upgrade Version command button. 

When Upgrading:

• A copy of the project is executed, creating a new file named: <project-name>-<preivous-vesion>.tproj.
• A new empty project is created named <project-name>.tproj.
• The Previous project is imported to the new project.

After upgrading, it is recommended to open the new project and build it (Execute → Build and Publish → Build... operation), so the system checks all its scripts.

You can run a project by:

• Using the Run button.
• Setting an Auto-Start option at the Server tab. <<<< ainda tem a tab Server? >>>>
• Starting the execution manually after you open the project for editing (Execute → Startup → Run Startup). 

Both Test Project and Run Project, will start the project execution. The difference is the Test Project will use any testing configuration created in the Project, such as alternate database connections, and other tools that simplify the development and validation cycle of the Project. <<<< ainda tem a tab Server? >>>>

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