Styles

Note: AVEVA Industrial Graphics is now deprecated within Plant SCADA and future releases. It will no longer be supported or maintained in future versions, monthly updates or security updates. AVEVA recommends customers cease using AVEVA Industrial Graphics within Plant SCADA runtime systems and decommission any Plant SCADA Industrial Graphics web servers from production and engineering systems. See AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics for more information.

Styles can be used to manage the appearance of elements, status animations and numeric values in AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics applications.

A style defines a set of visual properties that determine the appearance of elements such text, lines, graphic outlines, and interior fill.

When a style is applied to an Industrial Graphics symbol, the specified visual properties take precedence over a symbol’s native visual properties. This allows you to establish consistent visual standards.

Style can be applied to selected objects in the Industrial Graphics Editor (see the topic Applying Element Styles to Elements). For example, you can specify a style in the Element Style field in the Properties Editor. This field includes a drop-down list of styles that are currently configured in the active project.

When a style is selected for an object, you are no longer able to modify the value for any properties that have an override configured. In the example above, the LineWeight and LinePattern fields appear gray to indicate that an override has been configured for these properties in the Control_line style.

Styles are defined in Plant SCADA Studio's Standards activity. The Styles view hosts the Configure Styles dialog, which allows you to configure an overriding style for a selected visual element.

The available elements are distributed across the following three tabs:

• Quality and Status — defines the appearance of primitive elements and the status element so they will reflect the quality and/or status of an attached I/O (see Configure Style Overrides for Quality and Status Elements).

• Element Styles — defines visual properties for symbols, including text, lines, outlines, and fill (see Configure Style Overrides for Element Styles).

• Format Styles — defines the format used for numeric values in display animations (see Configure Format Styles for Value Display Animations).

In each case, pre-configured styles are included for a default set of elements. The predefined values of these element styles can be changed, however, they styles cannot be renamed or deleted.

User-defined styles are also available for Element Styles and Format Styles. You can rename a user-defined style to help identify its intended purpose.

The order of precedence for property styles (from high to low) is:

1. Quality and Status

2. Element style animation

3. Style animations

4. Group-level element style

5. Element-level element style

6. Local element-level style.

   Note: The Industrial Graphics Editor and runtime will only use the styles configured in the active project. If you are editing content in an included project, be aware that the pages and symbols will be displayed using the styles specified in the active project.

You can copy the styles configured for Industrial Graphics from one Plant SCADA project to another. See Copy Styles to Another Project.

See Also

AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics