InTouchView applications

InTouchView applications show visual interfaces for use in an Application Server environment. InTouchView applications run in WindowViewer, with Application Server providing most of the HMI functionality. An application can also be configured to serve as InTouch Tag Server application, providing other nodes with secure tag information. InTouchView applications are useful in scenarios where a client node only needs to access data and does not need the full functionality of a development node.

InTouchView applications offer only some of the standard functions available from full-featured InTouch applications. InTouchView applications:

• Cannot connect to I/O sources other than the Application Server Galaxy or InTouch Tag Server.

• Cannot generate alarms. However, you can display and acknowledge alarms from remote alarm providers, such as Application Server objects and InTouch alarms.

• Do not log application data or events. An InTouchView application generates only SYS and USER-related events.

• When the application consumes data from a Galaxy, it can be secured only with ArchestrA security.

• Cannot reference tags within embedded Industrial Graphics.

You develop InTouch applications with WindowMaker, and run them in WindowViewer. You can then change an InTouch application to an InTouchView application that will allow you to manage your InTouch applications through the Application Server. Likewise, you can change an InTouchView application to an InTouch application.

The following lists show which WindowMaker commands and Tagname Dictionary options are unavailable when creating InTouchView applications.

• Unavailable commands:

  • Access Names

  • Alarm Groups

  • Configure...Alarms

  • Configure...Historical Logging

  • Configure...Distributed Name Manager

• Unavailable Tagname Dictionary options:

  • Alarms

  • Details & Alarms

  • Log Data

  • Log Events

  • Priority