Creating Graphic Choice Groups, Choices, and Options

The following list summarizes the tasks that need to be completed in a designer workflow to create a Symbol Wizard containing multiple configurations.

• Define a graphic’s Choice Groups, their Choices, and Options

• Assign rules to Choice Groups, Choices, and Options

• Associate graphic elements, custom properties, and named scripts to graphic layers

• Verify each graphic configuration with Symbol Wizard Preview

After planning the possible configurations for a graphic, Designers should know the properties and the possible attributes associated with each configuration. Designers create Choice Groups, Choices, and Options to define a graphic’s properties and attributes.

Important: Situational Awareness Library symbols have predefined Choice Groups, Choices, and Options.

To create graphic choice groups, choices, and options

1. In Plant SCADA Studio, create a copy of a graphic in the Industrial Graphic Editor for which you want to create multiple configurations.

   You can also build an entirely unique symbol from scratch and create multiple configurations of it with Symbol Wizard.

2. Check out and open the copied graphic in the Industrial Graphic Editor’s canvas drawing area.

3. Click the Symbol Wizard icon shown on the Industrial Graphic Editor menu bar.

   You can also show Symbol Wizard by pressing Alt+W or selecting it as an option from the View menu.

   The Industrial Graphic Editor updates to show the Symbol Wizard Editor’s tabbed panes at the left of the window.

4. Click the Options tab.

5. Click Add Choice Group to create a Choice Group.

   A Choice Group folder appears in the Options window.

6. Rename the Choice Group to assign an easily identifiable name of a property used in a graphic configuration.

   Creating a Choice Group automatically sets it to rename mode. You can also manually rename a Choice Group by right-clicking on the Choice Group and select Rename from the menu.

7. Repeat steps 5-6 to create as many Choice Groups as needed to define all properties of a graphics that determine its configurations.

8. Select a Choice Group folder and click Add Choice to add a choice beneath the select Choice Group.

9. Rename the Choice to assign an easily identifiable name of a property attribute used in a graphic configuration.

10. Repeat steps 8-9 to assign all possible Choice attributes to the Choice Groups.

11. Click Add Option to add an Option, which appears in the window at the same hierarchical level as Choice Groups.

12. Right-click the Option and select Rename to assign a name.

13. Repeat steps 11-12 to create as many Options needed to define a graphic’s configurations.

Related Topics

Designing a Symbol Wizard