Using Symbol Wizards

The Industrial Graphics Editor includes the Symbol Wizard Editor, which can be used to create symbols containing multiple visual or functional configurations called Symbol Wizards. A Symbol Wizard can be embedded into managed InTouch applications like standard Industrial Graphics.

A Symbol Wizard’s configuration is selected to meet the requirements of an application. Incorporating multiple configurations in a single Symbol Wizard reduces the number of symbols needed to develop an AVEVA application.

The Symbol Wizard Editor can create Symbol Wizards from traditional Industrial Graphics and Situational Awareness Library symbols. Both types of symbols are located in the Graphic Toolbox in separate toolkit folders. Symbol Wizards are saved in the IDE’s Graphic Toolbox and are not associated with any specific AVEVA object template or object instance. Except for the ability to select a specific symbol configuration, Symbol Wizards behave like standard Industrial Graphics.

Situational Awareness Library symbols provide an additional benefit of including defined properties and their associated attributes to more easily create configurations. Some Situational Awareness Library symbols include a Type property to assign a specific function for a symbol configuration. For example, a meter symbol can be configured to represent a thermometer, a pressure meter, or flow meter by simply changing the attribute assigned to the Type property.

Typically, the process of creating and embedding a Symbol Wizard in an application requires the involvement of a Designer and a Consumer. A Designer creates Symbol Wizards using the Symbol Wizard Editor. A Consumer selects a configuration of a Symbol Wizard and embeds the instance of the symbol into managed InTouch applications.