AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics

Pages and symbols are edited using the AVEVA Industrial Graphics Editor. This tool allows you to create basic elements, such as rectangles, lines, and text elements that can support real-time animations. You can also embed symbols to develop complex graphics with common components, and incorporate symbols from the Industrial Graphics libraries provided with Plant SCADA.

AVEVA Industrial Graphics are accessed by clients via an Industrial Graphics Server. It authenticates clients details and provides access to the graphical and functional content. See Install an Industrial Graphics Server.

For runtime operation, it is recommended that you set up a dedicated Industrial Graphics Server. Use Plant SCADA’s Deployment functionality to remotely manage and deploy project versions to the Industrial Graphics Server. To do this, you need to set up the host computer as a deployment client (see Deployment).

With any update method of deployment (Prompt, Notify or Force) the Industrial Graphics Web Server automatically activates the newly deployed project and version. When this occurs, the client shows content from the most recent deployment and informs you of the update with a notification.

If Runtime Manager is installed on the same machine and you are using the "Prompt" or "Notify" update method for deployment, then you have to restart the Runtime Manager to activate the newly deployed project and version. For more information refer to Specify the Update Method.

Note: If you would like to review an Industrial Graphics application during development, you need to have an Industrial Graphics Server (connected to a System Management Server) installed locally on your development workstation.

An Industrial Graphics application can be viewed in an HTML browser on any computer or device that is authenticated by the Industrial Graphics Server. When connected, you will see the pages you have created, arranged according to the menu structure defined in the Visualization activity (see Use the Industrial Graphics Web Client).

The page displayed above is an example of an Industrial Graphics Web Client application that you can access in the ExampleSA project.

If you would like to view this content on a development workstation with a locally installed Industrial Graphics Server, run the ExampleSA project and direct a browser to the following address:

• https://localhost/aig

To view the project on a remote Industrial Graphics Server you need to:

1. Set up an Industrial Graphics Server (see Install an Industrial Graphics Server).

2. Deploy the ExampleSA project to the Industrial Graphics Server.

3. Connect a remote browser to the Industrial Graphics Server.

For a full description of how to build an Industrial Graphics application and run the Web Client, see Design an Industrial Graphics Application.

Note: The Industrial Graphics Web Client does not use indicators such #COM, #BAD or a dithered background to show the quality or status of device communications. For Industrial Graphics applications, quality and status is indicated by using a status element, or by applying styles to primitive objects that reflect the quality and/or status of I/O communications. For more information, see Configure Style Overrides for Quality and Status Elements.

The IndustrialGraphics_Include project is a system project that is installed with Plant SCADA. It contains a default set of Industrial Graphics which includes charting and dashboard symbols as well as ISA symbols. These can only be embedded within Industrial Graphics pages and symbols.

The included symbols have been designed to support Industrial Graphic Styles, which allow you to centrally manage the appearance of elements, status animations and numeric values via the Standards | Styles view in Plant SCADA Studio (see Styles).

The charting symbols also offer many configuration options when selected within the Industrial Graphics Editor. These are accessible via the Wizard Options and Custom Properties sections of the Properties grid.

Help is provided for a selected option at the bottom of the Property grid.

If you would like to use these symbols when creating Industrial Graphics content, you need to add IndustrialGraphics_Include to your project as an included project (see Add an Included Project). It is not automatically included when you create a project using a Situational Awareness, SxW, Tab Style or any other starter project.

Note: The IndustrialGraphics_Include project is a system include project, and only appears in the Projects tree if the System Projects filter is applied to the Projects activity.