InTouchViewApp object

Application Server manages your InTouch applications with a specific type of Application Server object called the InTouchViewApp object.

An InTouchViewApp template references one specific managed InTouch application at design time and cannot be executed at run time.

You must create an instance of the InTouchViewApp template. This instance can be deployed to a target node. The target node is the node on which the managed InTouch application runs in WindowViewer.

To distribute an InTouch application, you create multiple instances of the same template and deploy them to multiple nodes.

Optionally, you can:

• Export and import the InTouchViewApp object to exchange managed InTouch applications across Galaxies.

• Export and import tag dictionary data as .csv files.

• Export and import windows between different types of InTouch applications.

• Publish the managed InTouch application. The published InTouch application runs like a standalone InTouch application but can contain Industrial Graphics.

• Use the attributes of the deployed InTouchViewApp object to read from and write to InTouch tags with ArchestrA attributes.

Use the InTouchViewApp object

1. Derive an InTouchViewApp template from the $InTouchViewApp base template.

2. Associate the derived template with an InTouch application by creating a new InTouch application or importing a standalone InTouch application.

3. Open the application in WindowMaker.

4. Configure the application in WindowMaker and test it in WindowViewer.

5. Save and close WindowMaker. The InTouchViewApp template is checked in.

6. Derive instances from the InTouchViewApp template.

7. Deploy these instances to selected target nodes within the Galaxy.

8. Run Application Manager on the target nodes and run the managed InTouch applications in WindowViewer.