Create a New Project

Creating a project based on the SxW templates project is simple; by default, it is incorporated as an included project in new projects. This means whenever you start a new project, the SxW templates are ready to use as necessary.

There are two ways to create a project based on the SxW templates:

• Use the predefined starter project

• Create a project from scratch

  Note: It is recommended when creating a project, you base it on one of the starter projects. Offering a basic level of functionality, the project can be modified and extended to suit your needs.

Using the pre-defined Starter Project

To base a project on an existing starter project:

1. Create a project using a Starter project.

   Two pre-defined starter projects with page resolutions HD1080 and HD768 for wide screens only are provided as part of the product installation. Each of the starter projects will be based on project "SxW_Style_1" and contain:

   • A cluster named "Cluster1".

   • A server of each server types: "IOServer1", "AlarmServer1", "ReportServer1" and "TrendServer1".

   • A memory I/O devices named "Internal".

   • Equipment type "Motor" and its associated template file, graphical genie and super-genie pop-up pages.

   • A role named "Administrators" which is linked to the "BUILTIN\Administrators" Windows group and have global privilege of 1 to 8. This allows a user to log in Plant SCADA at runtime using a Windows user account who belongs to the Administrators group of the local machine.

   • Pages of Alarm, Summary, Disabled, Hardware, ProcessAnalyst and !ProcessAnalystPopup, Data Browse -Control Inhibit, and Manual Override, based on the relevant templates found in the SxW_Style_Include project.

   • Page specific menu items. For example, the active alarm page will have page specific menu items such as Simulate, History, Acknowledge and Disable, and Filter options.

The newly created project will be immediately compilable, and will contain a basic level of built-in functions such as viewing alarms and trends, and a menu displayed in the right-panel to easily access and navigate the included pages.

Create a project from scratch

To configure a project based on the SxW templates from scratch:

2. Create a privileged user; see Create a Privileged User.

3. Run the Setup Wizard; see Run the Setup Wizard.

4. Set up instant trending; see Use Instant Trending.

5. Implement audible alarms; see Implement Audible Alarms.

6. Add Pages; see Create New Pages.

7. Create/define custom menu; see Create Custom Menus for SxW Templates.

Avoid modifications to the SxW template project for use as a runtime project; set it aside for use as a template for new projects.

If creating a project based on the SxW templates, it is not recommended to include pages based on templates that use a different style, including the earlier Include project. Doing so might affect functionality.

See Also

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