Build Symbol Standards

System Platform provides a set of graphic tools and symbols to visualize data in a ViewApp. You can use these tools within the Graphic Editor to create symbols from basic graphic elements, like rectangles, lines, and text.

You can also embed pre-built Industrial Graphic and Situational Awareness Library symbols in a template to visualize object-specific information. Embedding a symbol enables you to update one symbol template and cascade the changes throughout all of the instances of the symbol in your application.

Standard Industrial Graphics available from the Graphic Toolbox show reasonably realistic views of process objects. You can embed an Industrial Graphic in a template or instance of an object to visualize object-specific information.

Situational Awareness Library symbols are protected symbols that include multiple visual and functional configurations, which are enabled by selecting values from a set of Wizard Options associated with each symbol. Incorporating multiple configurations in a single symbol reduces the types of symbols you need to develop for an application.