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Introduction to the Displays Module
The Displays Module allows you to create User Interfaces.
Some of the Displays Module Display '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 web clients. Create Responsive Dashboards
- Create responsive dashboards as well as HMI process screens.
- Allows user-defined layouts, creating Displays
- displays composed by many
- of multiple frames. Large
- A large set of Smart Symbols, High Performance Graphical symbols
- smart symbols, high-performance graphical symbols, and extensible components are included.
- Support for Themes
- theme skins, Language Localization and Units Metric systems
- language localization, and units metric system conversion.
- Automatically connects Data Templates
- data templates with Symbols
- symbols.
- Displays are dynamically created from the Asset Model, for Self-Aware
- asset model for self-aware SCADA applications.
This documentation section explains the tools available on the Display Displays Module, the . The drawing itself of displays is on the next documentation section: Drawing the User Interface.
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Key Concepts and Terms
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Display / Screen
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Displaydisplay is a window or frame of your application’s user interface. A display can contain multiple graphical elements. The elements of a display can be static, meaning they always appear the same,
likesuch as a title or an image, or dynamic, such as a gauge or a color status indicator.
ForIn the context of
thethis documentation, the terms display and screen can
use as equivalent,be used interchangeably when referring to
ana user interface window. When referring to the configuration objects or the module, the term "Display" is used.
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Layout
Layouts allow the organization of the user interface into frames or panels, acting as containers for your Displays. For instance, a typical layout includes a top display that remains constant with navigation buttons, and an area below where different displays can be shown.
Client
A client is a software component that interacts with a server or services, including types such as .NET Clients, HTML5 Clients, and Remote Clients.
Rendering Engine
A rendering engine generates visual output from an application's display drawing. In our context, the Engine can be WPF, HTML5, or Portable meaning that the same displays can be rendered to WPF or HTML5 clients.
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PanelType
A Panel isPanels are containers for organizing the
displaysdisplay’s graphical elements.
TheThe PanelType defines how those elements will be organized. Our platform supports Canvas and Dashboard as PanelTypes.
Our Platform support Canvas and Dashboard as PanelTypes.
Canvas (or Process Screens): The elements are in a drawing surface, where each element has its specific location and size.
Grid (or Dashboard Screens): The elements are placed in
Grid, whicha grid with responsive size, columns
are rows are responsive, which theand rows. The graphical elements
adjustingadjust accordingly.
Understanding the Displays Module
The Displays Module implements the UserInterface user interface for the execution of your solution. The Drawing drawing of a display itself is is covered in the next chapter, "Drawing User Interfaces." First, first it is necessary to understand the various concepts , and features around related to creating and using the User Interface Displays.
Desktop and Web sharing the same configuration
The Display Modules Displays Module allows the creation of screens to run in on Windows Desktops, desktops using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) technology , or in Web web browsers , using HTML5 and WebAssembly technologies.
Although you can can create displays that requires are intended to open in only in one or another environment, our platform support supports the Portable option, where the exact same configuration can be used by both by Windows/WPF clients , or and Web/HTML5 clients.
Users don't need to create two different kinds types of screens for Windows and Web web clients. Using the Portable option for the rendering engine creates displays that will automatically function in both Desktop desktop and Webweb environments. This feature enabled feature enables our users from previous release releases to use the screen screens they created over the years to on Windows Desktops desktops and open them directly in Web web browsers with no rework nor or modifications.
For Windows WPF, you can access the displays using the Rich Client (installed on the client computer) or a Smart Client (ClickOnce, no installation required) loading from supported browsers.
For Web HTML5, no installation is required; you can use it on desktop or mobile devices with any browser compatible with HTML5/WebAssembly (which most browsers currently are).→ Read more about Display Client Types
Process Screens and Dashboards
Process screens and dashboards are specific layouts within displays that organize graphical elements for different data visualization purposes. They contribute to the overall structure and design, enhancing the user experience.
A Process Screen represents a process diagram. When resize resized, the elements keep their relative position.
A Dashboard Screen is for data presentation where the UI components are placed on a grid, according to the size of the Container window.
When using Process process screens, there are various ways to specific specify the responsiveness for the resizeresizing, like such as stretching proportionally , or other options, that . That behavior is defined in the Drawing drawing tool , or the DisplaySettingsDisplay Settings.
When using Dashboards, you are automatically creating responsive UI interface.
→ See more on Responsive Creating Dashboards.
Windows Specific Features
Although the platform tries to keep the Windows/WPF and Web/HTML5 experiences of the displays as similar as possible, that there are features available only when running WPF displays in on Windows, due to intrinsic limitations of the web browser.
Those features include;
Easily setup for Multi-Monitor applications.
Process Control execution mode disables the Windows Task Switch.
Those requirements are useful for enterprise Network Operations Centers and Operations Control Rooms. To activate this feature, navigate to Displays Client Settings
Designer and Runtime Themes
An extensive set of Light light and Dark Themesdark themes, including Highhigh-Contrast onescontrast options, provides the better comfort and visibility when creating the solution, as well as for operators.
The Builtbuilt-in tools enables enable the easy creation of Solutions solutions that will be delivered with theme support, with requiring no extra effort for it.It Includes 12 Light//Dark Theme, include High Contrast options, and user customization tools.
Localization and Internationalization
The platforms platform allows the easy creation of solutions that, no without the need of modifications, can run in various settings for language and internationalization.
It is possible to for two Operators accessing to access the same server, to use their own and using distinct choices of UI language and Engineering Units, and changing its settings for his their local User Interface.
Smart Symbols
Smart Symbols
The Drawing tool includes a library of around 2.,000 SmartSymbolsSmart Symbols, graphical elements typically used on in industrial applications. Many of those Symbols, these symbols are more than just a vector image, it has also vector images; they also have dynamic behavior that allows a direct mapping to your Tags tags and Assetsassets. It includes also a set of Industrial Icons, specially designed for the typical visuals on process displays.
High Performance HMI
The well know -known book High Performance HMI proposed a set of standards on for HMI design. Our platform fully enables the creation of solutions that support that those standards, including HighPerformance High-Performance Graphical (HPG) pallets on palettes in its themes , and hundreds of readready-to-use Symbols creating symbols created following those specifications.
Advanced Components and Controls
For advanced graphical interfaces, such Gantt and TrendChartas GanttCharts, TrendCharts, DataGrids, PdfViewer PdfViewers and othermore, a set of Graphical Components, for both WPF and Web is included. Additionally, third-party controls can easily be used in the solution.
Self-aware Applications and Dynamic Displays
Previous generations of SCADA and HMI typically had the drawing and mapping of its their data fixed to the Tags tags and Process Variablesprocess variables. At maximummost, they allowed to point the same drawing to point to different assets, as long as the assets were similar. Our Platform, as it's platform, being a new generation, also allows the dynamic creation of complete graphics graphic displays , according to the data is connectingbeing connected.
Those Data These data-centric applications can have its User Interface created their user interface created automatically based on what the assets are found in the Data Model Typically those data model. Typically, these applications are organized around an Unified Namespace, or a MQTT Broker or UPC a unified namespace, an MQTT broker, or OPC UA servers.
Using the External TagProvider feature, our platform can establish a dynamic connection with those systems, selecting the best UI elements according the data found on the connected servers.
Learn more about data-driver user interface on the Tutorial MQTT and Dynamic Displays.
Displays Module Configuration
The Objects and Tools to create and manage Displays are organize organized in the following sections:
Displays List
The Displays List page shows the current set of Displays of the solution. More information in Displays List.
Displays Draw
Built-in graphical editor for Displays. Go to Displays Draw for an overview, and go to Drawing the User Interface for information on all the drawing tools
Layouts
Organize Displays into frames. More information on Displays Layouts.
Client Settings
Setup startup and execution settings, when using the displays. More information on Displays Client Settings.
Images
Table will with all Image Files imported to the Solution File. More information on Displays Images.
Symbols
Table will with all Symbols imported to the Solution File, or created within. More information on Displays Symbols.
Themes
Show the available Themes and allows customizations. More information on Displays Themes.
Localization
Define Translation Dictionaries, allowing different operator to run their displays in different languages. More information on Displays Localization.
Units Conversion
Define Dictionaries for Metric System conversion, allowing different operator so operators to see Values in different metric system. More information on Displays Units Conversion.
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