Text

A simple static text that does not change in any way.

Indicator

The label shows the value of the assigned Server Item. In this mode it is read only. The Item on the server cannot
be changed by the label.

• OPC Item IDs: The Server Item(s) assigned to the label. The value of the lastly updated item will be used.

• Scale factor: The factor, the Server Item’s value is multiplied with.

• Limit value Min. value and max. value, to set borders for the false value color.

• Send value on click: On click, the currently displayed value is sent back to the Server Item.

Date / time

Here, the control displays the actual date and time depending on the given text format.

Control

The label displays and controls the values of its Server Items. The value of the lastly updated item will be used. In the executed visualization, a click will open a dialog for entering data. In contrast to when the label receives a value, an entered value will be set at all Server Items that are specified in OPC Item IDs!

• OPC Item IDs: The Server Item assigned to the Label.

• Is Password: Prevents the field’s contents to be displayed on the screen.

• Input type: Defines how the user can enter data.

• Scale factor: The factor, the Server Item’s value is multiplied with.

• Limit value Min. value and max. Value, to set borders for the false value color.

Text

The text the label will display. It will only remain the way it is when the label is set as indicator. All other modes will alter this field.

Formatted text

A preview of the formatted text. This field cannot be edited. It is a result of the combination of the text and text format.

Text format

A string to format the control’s value.

Font

The font the label’s content will be displayed in.

Font AutoSize

The font size will set automatically to fill the extents of the label element.

Rotation

The angle in degrees, which will rotate the control clockwise.

Alignment

Position of the text inside the defined area of the label (Top ,Bottom,Middle (left, center, right)).

Background color

The background color of the label.

Text color

The font color of the label.

Border

Enable/ Disable Label borders.

Border Color

Label border's color.

Border Width

Border's width. 

Picture

Picture Defines the picture that shall be shown.

Rotation

The angle in degrees, which will rotate the control clockwise.

Flip

If either vertically or horizontally is checked, the picture will be flipped accordingly.

Stretch mode

• Free scale: the picture can be scaled without keeping the ratio between width and height.

• Keep aspect ratio: the picture can be scaled while keeping the ratio between width and height.

Opacity

It contains the percentage of how through shining a picture will be displayed. 100% is solid and 5% makes the picture almost invisible.

Use transparency

When set, one color of the control is made transparent.

Transparent color

This color is the one set to invisible, when the check box above is set. A color can be picked with the pipette tool.

Template name

A button template can be selected or written to the text box. The buttons below give the visualization designer the possibility to create, edit, or load a template. The option “Files. . . ” opens a new dialog to select three different picture files instead of a template; one picture for each, off-, on-, and uncertain-state.

Rotation

The angle in degrees, which will rotate the control clockwise.

Flip

If either vertically or horizontally is checked, the button will be flipped accordingly.

Stretch mode

• Free scale: the button can be scaled without keeping the ratio between width and height.

• Keep aspect ratio: the button can be scaled while keeping the ratio between width and height.

Opacity

It contains the percentage of how through shining the control will be displayed. 100% is solid and 5% makes the control almost invisible.

Use transparency

When set, one color of the control is made transparent.

Transparent color

This color is the one set to invisible, when the check box above is set. A color can be picked with the pipette tool.

Transparent Area Clickable

If set, clicks on transparent areas of the image trigger the click event. If not set, clicks on transparent areas are ignored.

Title

Contains the text written onto the control. It is also possible to define a caption in the button editor when creating or editing a template. This one will be merged with the pictures and therefore can be stretched, rotated, and inflicted by transparency. The text outside the button editor is not influenced by the above mentioned.

Font

Change the font.

Font color

Change the font's color.

Hor. alignment

The horizontal alignment of caption can be set here. A positive value (measured in pixel) of X will put an offset to the right onto the caption, a negative one will shift it to the left.

Vert. alignment

The vertical alignment of caption can be set here. A positive value (measured in pixel) of Y will put an offset upwards onto the caption, a negative one will shift it down.

Standard button

The Button in the Standard-Button-Mode can be used to change Server Items or display their values.

• Switch – The button will lock in place in either down or up state. Once any of the two positions has been reached the according value will be sent to the
  Server Item.

• Toggle – The ON value will be sent when the toggle button is pressed. Once it is released the OFF value will be sent.

• Toggle on/off – sends alternating on- or off-signals when it is pressed.

•  Toggle down – sends the value when the button is pressed

•  Toggle up – sends the value when the button is released

•  +Value – increases a value by a defined amount. The maximum value - when set - will not be exceeded.

•  -Value – decreases a value by a defined amount. The minimum value - when set - will not be exceeded.

• Send actual value – just sends the current value back to the server.

XCommand Button

The short cut for the button needs to be placed here for it to execute any XCommand function from NETx BMS Core Server.

• ONEVENT: Define the event to execute the XCommand.

  • Short Click: XCommand is triggered once the button quickly pressed .

  • Long Down: XCommand is triggered once the button long pressed.

  • Long Up: XCommand is triggered on release but when the button long pressed.

  • Down XCommand is triggered once the button pressed.

  • Up: XCommand is triggered on release.

• XCOMMAND: The name of the XCommand itself. 

• INPUTS: XCommand's input/s. 

• PARAMETERS: XCommand's parameters/s. 

• OUTPUT: XCommand's output/s.

Go to page

This function allows the user to navigate from one page to another. There are special targets implemented like navigating to the home page or simply back and forth.

•  <Navigate back> – is calling the previously viewed page. If there is no page in the history of the program, the visualization will remain at the current page.

•  <Navigate forward> – gets the user to a page from which he previously must have navigated back.

•  <Go to home page> – will bring the user to the page which was declared “Home page”. 

• View: Choose in which view the linked page should be open. 

Change layer visibility

This function turns layers and their controls visible or invisible. Selected layer will be the one whose visibility will be turned on or off.

Change popup window visibility

Like layers, popups can be hidden or shown.Selected popup will be the one whose visibility will be turned on or off.

WebManager Window

This function will show the selected Web Manager content in a new window. The NETx Visualization Editor supports up to 4 windows at the same time. 

• Element type: Alarm list, Calendar, Event list, Trending, or Metering chart. 

• Element: The path name of the Web Manager element matching the given element type.

Show URL Window

This function will call the URL in the URL field, and shows the content in Window of your choice. If URL does not include protocol, standard protocol "HTTP" will be added to the link.

Execute menu command

The short cut for the button needs to be placed here for it to execute any program functionality of the NETx Visualization Editor. The format of the short cut needs to be done in the following syntax:

All special keys must be set in curly brackets except for [Alt], [Ctrl], and [Shift]. Regular keys like any letter or digit are just plainly set (e.g. a for the letter “a”). Keys can be combined in writing them next to each other without any spaces in between. More can be found in the next table (Special keys and characters).

Close Visualization

This function closes the application.

Backspace

{BACKSPACE}, {BS}, {BKSP}

Break

{BREAK}

Caps lock 

{CAPSLOCK}

Delete 

{DELETE}, {DEL}

Arrow down

{DOWN}

Arrow up

{UP}

Arrow left

{LEFT}

Arrow right

{RIGHT}

End

{END}

Enter, Return

{ENTER}

Escape

{ESC}

Help

{HELP}

Home

{HOME}

Insert

{INSERT}, {INS}

Num lock

{NUMLOCK}

Page up

{PGUP}

Page down

{PGDN}

Scroll lock

{SCROLLLOCK}

TAB

{TAB}

F1, F2, ... F12 

{F1}, {F2}, ... {F12}

Shift

+

Control

^

Alt

%

Picture

Determines which picture should be displayed.

Stretch mode

• Free scale: the picture can be scaled without keeping the ratio between width and height.

• Keep aspect ratio: the picture can be scaled while keeping the ratio between width and height.

Border

• Enable/ Disable Link area borders.

• Changing Border Colors in 

Border Color

Part of Object Properties window, in the Value tab changing border color under Graphic > LINE_COLOR

Back Color

Part of Object Properties window, in the Value tab changing background color under Graphic > BACK_COLOR

Text Color

Part of Object Properties window, in the Value tab changing background color under Text > TEXT_COLOR

Go to page

The visualization designer can select either a page of the project to navigate to or
one of the following special options:

• <Navigate back> – is calling the previously viewed page. If none is in the history of the program, the visualization will remain at the current page.

•  <Navigate forward> – gets the user to a page from which he previously must have navigated back.

•  <Go to home page> – will bring the user to the page which was declared “home page”.

Change layer visibility

This function turns layers and their controls visible or invisible. Selected layer will be the one whose visibility will be turned on or off.

Change popup window visibility

Like layers, popups can be hidden or shown.Selected popup will be the one whose visibility will be turned on or off.

URL

In this text field the URL for this controller can be defined.

Item ID

The item assigned to this control

Rotation

The angle in degrees, which will rotate the control clockwise.

Flip

If either vertically or horizontally is checked, the picture will be flipped accordingly.

Stretch mode

• Free scale: the picture can be scaled without keeping the ratio between width and height.

• Keep aspect ratio: the picture can be scaled while keeping the ratio between width and height.

Opacity

It contains the percentage of how through shining the control will be displayed. 100% is solid and 5% makes the control almost invisible.

Index

This drop down list selects the picture that shall be configured. In the following fields, the symbol “#” is a placeholder for the current selected picture.

Picture #

This field contains the file name of the picture which shall be displayed.

Picture not in use

The picture is kept in the workspace but will not be displayed at all. This option is to quickly take an image off the Multi Picture without losing the given information.

Picture when quality is
not GOOD

The picture will be shown, when the quality of the Server Item is not “GOOD”, when no valid value is available, or when no server item is assigned to the control.

Use condition (quality
is GOOD)

The following condition is applied to the item and the picture will be shown when they are fulfilled.

Condition #

The “#” is the number of the actual picture. Here the conditions can be edited under which the the picture shall be show.

Value =

The value of the assigned Server Item equals the one which is placed in the text box.

Value >

The value of the assigned Server Item is greater than this set value.

Value <

The value of the assigned Server Item is less than this set value.

Value > & Value <

The value of the assigned Item is between those two set values.

Conditions not met

The picture will be displayed when none of the other pictures’ conditions are met.

Server Items

One or more observed items. If multiple items are chosen, the one that has lastly received a value change will be used to determine which text gets shown.

Value calculation

min. Value (0%)

max Value (100%)

Index

This drop down list selects the text that shall be configured. In the following fields, the symbol “#” is a placeholder for the current selected text.

Text #

The actual text of the currently selected index.

Font #

Copy Font #

The button opens a dialog that lets you choose the font of the text, but also some other format options (colors, borders).

This button is visible if not Text 1 is selected. You can copy the format settings from the previous text to the current text.

Condition #

Text not used

Keeps the actual text in the control without losing the content.

Text if quality is not GOOD

This text will be shown, when the quality of the Server Item is not “GOOD”, when no valid value is available, or when no server item is assigned to the control.

Value

Requires GOOD quality. Condition is met if the server items value has a certain relation to the defined single value.

• = equals

• >, <, >=, <= greater, lower, greater or equals, lower or equals

• <> not equals

Range

Requires GOOD quality. Comparison of the server items value with a defined range. If the value is between the range, the condition is met. < and <= determines if the specified value is part of the range or not.

Conditions not met

Requires GOOD quality. The text will be displayed when none of the other text’ conditions are met.

Item ID

The item assigned to this control

Index

This drop down list selects the URL that shall be configured. In the following fields, the symbol “#” is a placeholder for the currently selected URL.

URL#

this text field, the URL for the selected index is defined. 

URL not in use

Keeps the actual URL in the control without losing the content

URL when quality is not
GOOD

This URL will be shown, when the quality of the Server Item is not “GOOD”, when no valid value is available, or when no server item is assigned to the control.

Use condition (quality
is GOOD)

This option will make the URL appear, when the condition set further down in the dialog is met.

Condition #

Here you can edit the conditions to show the URL.

Value =

The value equals the one of the assigned Item.

Value >

The value of the assigned Server Item is greater than this set value.

Value <

The value of the assigned Server Item is less than this set value.

Value > & Value <

The value of the assigned Item is between those two set values.

Conditions not met

The text will be displayed when none of the other text’ conditions are met.

OPC Item IDs

Here the list of items that shall be assigned to the drop down list must be defined.

Use list content item

This option activates the opportunity to change the list content via a Server Item. If activated, the Item ID of the Server Item must be specified in the text field below.

Text

The text the drop down list will display if no entry matches.

Formatted text

A preview of the formatted text.

Text format

A character row to format the control’s value.

Font

The font the label’s content will be displayed in.

Font AutoSize

The font size will automatically match the size of the Label.

Rotation

The angle in degrees, which will rotate the control clockwise.

Alignment

Position of the text inside the defined area of the label (left, center, right).

Background color

The background color of the label.

Text color

The font color of the label.

False value bg. color

The background color when the value is outside a defined limit

False value text color

The text color when the value is outside a defined limit

Border

Enable/ Disable Label borders.

Border Color

Label border's color.

Border Width

Border's width. 

List items

Add, edit, or remove your list entries here. For each list entry, a value as well as its appearance (font, size, color) can be defined.

List item definition

The formatted definition string for the list content will be displayed here after you clicked “Apply”.

Border

If set, a solid black one pixel broad border will frame the Polygon.

Border Width

Here, the width of the border can be specified.

Border Color

Here, the color of the border can be specified.

Border style 

Here, different styles of the border.

Fill

If set, a selected color will be filled in the Polygon.

Fill color

Select the color to fill the Polygon with.

Fill opacity

It contains the percentage of how through shining a color will be displayed. 100% is solid and 5% makes the color almost invisible.

Go to page

The visualization designer can select either a page of the project to navigate to or one of the following special options:

• <Navigate back> – is calling the previously viewed page. If none is in the history of the program, the visualization will remain at the current page.

•  <Navigate forward> – gets the user to a page from which he previously must have navigated back.

•  <Go to home page> – will bring the user to the page which was declared “home page”.

• View: Choose in which view the linked page should be open. 

Change layer visibility

This function turns layers and their controls visible or invisible. Selected layer will be the one whose visibility will be turned on or off.

Change popup window visibility

Like layers, popups can be hidden or shown.Selected popup will be the one whose visibility will be turned on or off.

Line width

The width of the line.

Line color

The color of the line.

Line style

Select the line style (continuous, dotted, dashed, etc.).

Arrow

If set, the polyline will be shown with an arrow pointer at the end.

Arrow type

Select the type of the arrow.

File

The name of the CAD file to be displayed.