Shortcuts and Browsing
- Last UpdatedNov 24, 2025
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Plot can be run directly from a shortcut from the desktop or menus. Here is an example of a shortcut created on the desktop.
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Target: |
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Aveva Shared\Plot. |
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Start in: |
C:\temp |
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Name: |
Plot |
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Target |
defines the command line to run Plot with the screen driver. Note that the full pathname of the plot program is used and that the input file is replaced by "*". |
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Start in |
is set as the directory that is most used for plot files. |
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Name |
labels the shortcut. |
When this command is run from the shortcut a Multiple-File Open dialog and a Console window are created.
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Select one or more plot files and plot will view them all in the order specified.
At each stage the file can be viewed and printed.
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Close the graphics window or press Q to move on to the next file.
After all files have been viewed Plot returns to the multiple-file open dialog.
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Click Cancel to finish.
Other drivers can be used with the input file set to "*". For example the list driver can be used to display summary information about the graphical contents of the files.
Alternatively, the shortcut on the desktop can be used to drag and drop plot files as well as browsing for them if the shortcut target is a small batch file DragDropPlot.bat, containing lines such as the following:
set file=%1
if "%file%" == "" set file="*"
start /b C:\AVEVA\pdms\plot\plot.exe plot screen %file% -0 "AUTO"