New in InTouch HMI 2023

InTouch HMI 2023 (Version 23.0.000) includes a number of new features, hot fixes, and provides support for the latest versions of Microsoft products. Refer to the GCS Technology Matrix for the list of supported Microsoft products.

New Look of InTouch HMI

InTouch HMI 2023 now has a new look. The product and icons have been redesigned for a simpler and enhanced user experience. The new user interface complies with the fluid design and adheres with the AVEVA Design System. Some of the key highlights of the new InTouch HMI 2023 user interface are:

• New backstage, menu items, and groups – All the configurations and special operations that you need to access frequently are now in the backstage, on the File menu. All other InTouch commands have been regrouped in different menu items based on their functionality and ease of accessibility.

• Customize the Application Theme – You can control the color scheme of InTouch HMI application by switching between the light and dark theme, on the View menu.

Longer tag names and item names

The tagname length has been extended from 32 to 128 characters. Item name length has been extended from 79 to 254 characters.

Unlimited Tag Count Support

The InTouch license now supports unlimited tag count. This means that the run-time database can theoretically store unlimited tagcount license, which includes both local tags and tags that reference a remote tag source. However, we have tested up to 300,000 tag handles (300K) only. For more information, see the section Licensing in InTouch HMI in the InTouch HMI Help.

Cloud Graphic Versioning Support

The AVEVA Drive graphics supports Industrial Graphics, Client Controls, and Widgets in the Cloud, published from different products with different versions of the graphic subsystems. For more information, see the section Working with Industrial Graphics in AVEVA Connect in the InTouch HMI Help.

Map App Web Widget

You can use the Map App Web Widget to incorporate a zoomable map into InTouch HMI applications and display selected graphics in a geographical context. It supports a number of popular map providers, and is perfect for geographically distributed applications. You can integrate Supertags with MapApp widget to display it in WindowViewer or Web Client. For more information, see the section Using MapApp Widget with Supertags in the InTouch HMI Help.

Supertags

Supertags is now more easily accessible from the Windows panel. It also has an improved workflow, making it easier to manage members, instances, and attributes.

Improved Search in WindowMaker

The improved search functionality in WindowMaker allows you to search with a keyword simultaneously within the windows, scripts, tags, and symbols.

Bit State Animations

Bit State animations allow you to add conditions to an animation based on bit values. You can add multiple conditions and for each condition you can select individual bits in any pattern up to 32 bits.

Extended Truth Table Animations

The Blink, Disable, Value Display and Visibility animations have now been extended with the ability to configure animations with truth table conditions.

New Graphic Element - Multi Pens Trend

Introducing a new graphic element – Multi Pens Trend. A Multi Pens Trend is like a trend pen and displays a succession of process values but with multiple trend lines.

Ramp option with the Pushbutton Animation

Within the Pushbutton animation you can choose to apply a percentage ramp to the Increment, Decrement, Multiply and Divide actions.

Support for Momentary Touch

The Momentary Contact action is now available for the Pushbutton Boolean animation, allowing you to configure a time-period to hold the set value.

Option to Reset Industrial Graphic Option Cached Values

You can now choose to reset the Industrial Graphic cached values and windows properties when the window is closed and reopened.

Improved Association of Tag Reference with Graphic Element text

There is an improved association of the the tag reference with the text displayed for the Graphic Element.

• If the tag reference is 'Bad Quality No Data', the text of the Graphic Element displays the special Characters configured in Styles Configuration section of the IDE.

• If the tag reference is 'Quality is initializing', there is no text displayed for the Graphic Elements.

Enhanced Language Switching at Runtime

The InTouch HMI application and the Alarm Client Control supports runtime language switching of alarm group names, and event and status bar messages.

Secure SuiteLink Configuration

As of System Platform 2023, the SuiteLink connection is by default set to secure with TLS encryption. If you want to enable the fallback mode to accept the unsecure connection, you have to make the configuration changes in the System Management Server. You can verify the mode of the SuiteLink connection, whether secure or unsecure, by checking the WWSLS component in the Log Viewer.

If unsecure fall back mode is not enabled and secure connection requirements are not met, then SuiteLink connection will fail. For more information, see Configuring Secure Suitelink as a Standard User in the AVEVA InTouch HMI Help.

Workspace Feature for the AVEVA InTouch HMI Web Client

Use the Workspace feature from the InTouch HMI Web Client for operators to create customizable dashboards dynamically. Workspace displays all graphics available in the Workspaces toolset of Graphic Toolbox in the selected application. This allows viewing an Industrial Graphic with runtime data by binding custom properties to tags from InTouch HMI. You can create, modify, and save your dashboards, and even share them with others on the team.

To access Workspace, you must:

• have a Flex license for InTouch HMI Web Client

• enable Workspaces from the AVEVA Application Manager

  Note:
  - The AVEVA Historian search and elastic search features are installed to support the Workspace feature for the InTouch HMI Web Client. Workspace is available if you are using Flex licensing. Therefore, after installation, you may see AVEVA Historian listed as a Windows program, even if you did not install the Historian. Do not uninstall Historian. You can use the Modify workflow to restore the Historian search and elastic search features if you inadvertently uninstalled Historian.
  - In this initial release of Workspace, searching for Application Server attributes is not supported when using Workspace on a remote node. Searching for Application Server attributes is only supported on the GR or Galaxy Repository node. This feature will be supported in future releases.

For more information, see Workspace in the AVEVA InTouch HMI Help, ITWebBrowser.pdf, and Widgets, Apps, and Controls Help.

Cybersecurity Enhancement

This version of InTouch HMI incorporates several cybersecurity enhancements.

X-Frame-Options Authentication Settings for Web Client

The Web Client now supports the X-Frame-Options HTTP response header. This can be used to indicate whether or not a browser should be allowed to render a page in a <frame>, <iframe>, <embed> or <object>. An XFrameOptions property has been added to the appsettings.json files under InTouchWeb\Server and InTouchWeb\Content.

The value of XFrameOptions in the appsettings.json file is blank by default. To ensure that the Web Client page can only be displayed in a frame on the same origin as the page itself, you must set the values of XFrameOptions as ‘SAMEORIGIN’. The value is not case sensitive. A shared Web Client may not load if the value of XFrameOptions is set to SAMEORIGIN.

If you specify the value of XFrameOptions as blank, the X-Frame-Options response header will not be added.