Published InTouch applications

After you edit your managed InTouch application, you can publish it. You can publish a managed application from the derived InTouchViewApp template. When you publish a managed application, a user-defined folder is created containing InTouch application files and any Industrial graphics embedded in the application. You use Application Manager’s Find utility to locate the folder. Thereafter, the converted application appears in Application Manager as a published application.

The advantage of published InTouch applications is that they can be distributed like standalone InTouch applications, but continue to support the functionality of Industrial graphics.

However, you can no longer:

• Use System Platform IDE to deploy InTouch applications.

• Edit or add Industrial Graphics in InTouch applications.

• Edit the published InTouch application.

You can use WindowMaker to migrate a published application from a version of InTouch prior to version 11.1 (2014 R2 Patch 01) to version 11.1 Patch 01. You can then modify the published application by updating the application source files and re-publishing. After you publish a managed application, you can still use embedded Industrial graphics to write data to a Galaxy or visualize data. A published application cannot be imported again into a Galaxy. After migrating a published Managed application, you need to republish the application. The Embedded Alarm Control will be upgraded to the new version upon republishing.