Configure the settings for a selected area

Each area in the Mobile Access tree / site map has its own area settings. Configure these settings to determine which alarms, trends, process values, and project screens to display on that area's corresponding page in the Mobile Access web interface.

The default area, at the root of the Mobile Access tree view, is "Main". Every project that has Mobile Access enabled has a "Main" area. You can rename if from "Main" to something else that is more appropriate to your project, but it is always the default area and it is always displayed first in the Mobile Access web interface.

The first time you open the Area Settings worksheet, it automatically displays the settings for the "Main" area. This task shows how to edit those settings, but the same procedure applies to editing the settings for any selected area.

For more information about the Mobile Access tree view, how it determines the site map of the Mobile Access web interface, and how to insert additional areas, see Insert a new area in the web interface.

To configure the settings for a selected area:

1. If the Mobile Access Configuration worksheet is not already open, do one of the following:

   • On the Project tab of the ribbon, in the Web group, click Mobile Access.

   • On the Graphics tab of the Project Explorer, double-click Thin Clients > Mobile Access.

   The Mobile Access Configuration worksheet is opened for editing, and the Web Settings page of the worksheet is displayed.

2. At the bottom of the Web Settings page, click Area Settings.

   The Area Settings page of the worksheet is displayed. It replaces the Web Settings page.

3. In the tree view, select the area for which you want to configure settings.

   The Area Settings worksheet for that area is displayed.

   

4. Under General, configure the general settings for this area.

   1. In the Name box, type the name of the area as it should appear in the tree view.

   2. In the Label box, type the area label that should be displayed in the Mobile Access web interface during run time. Typically, the label is the same as the full name, but you may choose to abbreviate it if the full name cannot be displayed correctly in the Mobile Access web interface.

   3. In the Access Level box, type the minimum security level that the user must have in order to access the area during run time.

5. Under Alarms, specify which alarms should be displayed in this area's Alarm window during run time.

   By default, all areas of the Mobile Access web interface will display all alarms that are configured in your project's Alarm worksheets. However, you can filter the alarms by group, by selection, or by priority in order to display only the alarms that are relevant to this area. The easiest way to do this is to configure a separate Alarm worksheet/group for each area and then filter by those group numbers, but if you configured your project's alarms long before you configured the areas of your Mobile Access web interface, then they may not correspond. If that is the case, you can use the other settings. For more information about group, selection, and priority, see Alarm worksheet.

   1. In the Group box, type the number of the Alarm group(s) that you want to display in this area.

      You can specify more than one group by using commas and hyphens. For example, if you type…

      5-10,60,80-90

      …you will display groups 5 through 10, group 60, and groups 80 through 90 in this control.

      The Group box will validate as you type; if you type an invalid group or groups, then the box will be bordered in red.

      If you leave this box empty, no filtering will be done by Alarm group.

   2. In the Selection box, type the selection alias(es) of the specific alarms that you want to display in this area.

      You can specify more than one selection alias by using commas. For example…

      AliasA,AliasB,AliasD

      If you leave this box empty, no filtering will be done by selection alias.

   3. In the Priority From and Priority To box, type the priority range of the specific alarms that you want to display in this area.

      If you leave the default values of 0 and 255 (that is, the maximum range), no filtering will be done by priority.

   4. Select Show process values alarms only if you only want to show alarms for the process values that are actually configured for this area (see below).

      If you select this option, it will override all of the other alarm filter settings.

6. Under Trend and Process Values, select the values that you want to display in this area's Trend and Process windows during run time. For each row, do the following:

   1. In the Tag Name column, type the name of a project tag that you want to display as a process value.

      You can also double-click in the box to open the Object Finder.

   2. In the Label column, type a simple label for the project tag.

   3. Select Write if you want to let the user write new values to the tag by manipulating the corresponding widget (for example, push the button, slide the gauge, toggle the switch).

   4. Select Trending if you want the process value to be graphed as a trend in the area's Trend window, rather than displayed as a widget in the area's Process Values window.

   5. In the Min and Max columns, type the minimum and maximum for the process value.

      Please note that these are not hard limits on the process value. The actual value of the project tag can exceed both the minimum and maximum, depending on how the value is calculated during run time. The actual value simply will not be displayed, because it is literally off the scale. Instead, when the actual value is less than the minimum, the minimum is displayed, and when the actual value is greater than the maximum, the maximum is displayed.

      In the Process Values window, Min and Max are used to determine the scale of the selected widget.

      In the Trend window, Min and Max are used to calculate the percentage. (For example, if Min is 10, Max is 20, and the actual value is 16, then the percentage is 60%.)

   6. In the Widget column, select the type of widget that should be used to represent the process value in the Process Values control.

      The following widgets are available.

      Option	Tag Types	Appearance
      Circular Gauge	Integer, Real
      Semi-Circular Gauge	Integer, Real
      Horizontal Gauge	Integer, Real
      Switch	Boolean
      Text Box	any

      If you select None, the process value will not be displayed in the Process Values window.

      This setting has no effect if the Trending option is selected.

   7. In the Pen Color column, use the color picker to pick a pen color for the process value.

      This setting has no effect if the Trending option is cleared.

   8. In the Widget Size list, select how large the widgets should be displayed.

      Larger widgets are clearer and easier to use on mobile devices, but they also take up more screen space.

   9. In the Write Access Level box, type the minimum security level that the user must have in order to write new values to project tags.

7. In the Screens area, specify which project screens should be made available through this area's Screens window. For each row, do the following:

   1. In the Screen column, click the list menu, and then select a project screen.

      Note: The list menu should include all project screens that have been saved as HTML. If you do not see the screen(s) that you want to select, do one of the following: Verify your project (on the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Tools group, click Verify); or Re-publish your project screens for the web (go to File, and then click Save All As HTML). Screen names should not include spaces. If a screen name does include a space, save that project screen with a new file name and then re-publish it for the web.

   2. In the Label column, type a label for the project screen that you selected.

      This label is displayed only in the Mobile Access web interface; it is not saved with the original screen file.

   Any project screen that has been saved as HTML can be selected for Mobile Access. However, not all screen objects and animations are fully supported in Mobile Access at this time, so make sure that you test the selected screens before you deploy your project. Also, even though you can open multiple screens and screen groups in Mobile Access, you cannot make screen groups available through the Screens control. For more information, see Supported features in Mobile Access.

   Also, with regards to project security, the Disable and Security settings are enforced on all screen objects and animations, but the E-sign setting is not.

When you are done, you can either return to the Web Settings page of the worksheet or close the worksheet altogether. The entire Mobile Access configuration is saved when you close the worksheet.