Graphics tab
- Last UpdatedOct 29, 2026
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The Graphics tab of the Project Explorer contains all of the screens, screen groups, and symbols in your project.
The folders on the Graphics tab are described in the following sections:
You create screens to provide a graphical interface for your project. Each screen can contain many buttons, sliders, dials, indicators, graphs, and so on.
You can combine individual screens into screen groups, so that they all open together at the same time.
You can deploy your project as a web application to be accessed by thin clients such as desktop web browsers, tablets, and smartphones. You can even deploy different versions of your project with different levels of functionality for each type of client.
This folder contains the Linked Symbols used in the project. Symbols copied from the native Symbols library are automatically segregated into the same subfolders as in the native Symbols library. Linked Symbols you create are also accessed through this folder; see Create and edit project symbols for more information.
You can use this worksheet to define VBScript sub-routines that are called only when the graphics module starts (that is, when a client station connects to the server and displays the graphical interface), while it is running, and when it ends.
Double-click this icon to open the project Symbols library (native and user-created). See Project Symbols above for more information.
The layout editor displays all of the screens the are currently open for editing. You can use it to visualize how the screens are arranged together and reuse screens in multiple layouts — for example, to create a common navigation bar across your entire project.