Automation objects

Before building a ViewApp, you must understand templates and object instances.

Templates are objects whose properties can be configured to represent a variety of process equipment types in a ViewApp.

For example, you might create a template for valves. You configure the template with all the unique attributes for valves. You use that template to make object instances of valves. You can further configure and customize each object instance to represent a specific valve.

Object instances are the specific devices in your environment, such as diaphragm valves or very complex devices, like a reactor. You create an instance from a template and then customize the specific instance as needed.

Instances are deployed to the runtime environment. Templates exist in the development environment and cannot be deployed.

The following graphic shows the different kinds of objects and how they are organized.