Connect Industrial Graphics to InTouch tags

You can connect Industrial Graphics to InTouch tags by overriding the custom properties of an embedded Industrial Graphic. Custom properties expose the properties of an Industrial Graphic to InTouch. Custom properties may or may not be used internally by the animations of the Industrial Graphic.

When you embed an Industrial graphic into an InTouch window, the references in the animation links are converted, as shown in the following table:

For more information about custom properties, see Industrial Graphic Editor User documentation.

You can select InTouch tags directly from the Galaxy Browser when working within the animation editor or the script editor. When invoked from either of those editors, the Galaxy Browser lists all InTouchViewApp instances for the current Galaxy, and lists all InTouch tags and dot fields for the selected InTouchViewApp instance.

For more information about using the Galaxy Browser to select InTouch tags, see Browse Application Server object attributes from InTouch.

Connect an Industrial Graphic to an InTouch tag

1. Right-click the embedded Industrial graphic in the InTouch window, point to Industrial Graphic, and then select Edit Symbol Properties. The Edit Symbol Properties dialog box appears.

   

2. Select the custom property you want to connect to an InTouch tag. The configuration for the selected custom property appears in the right pane.

3. In the Default Value box, do one of the following:

   • Type the name of the InTouch tag.

   • Select the browse button and select a tag from the Select Tag dialog box.

     

4. To restore the original value of the custom property, select Restore.

5. Select OK. Any animation in the Industrial Graphic that is configured with the selected custom property now uses the InTouch tag value during processing.