Associate External Content to a ViewApp

You can place an External Content item directly onto a pane from either the Layout or ViewApp editors. External Content items are listed in the Toolbox or Assets tabs of either editor.

To associate External Content to a ViewApp

1. Open the System Platform IDE and select the Graphic Toolbox tab to see the list of layouts.

2. Select a layout that you want to insert external content and open it in the Layout editor.

3. Locate the External Content item you want to place in the layout you selected.

   External Content thumbnails appear beneath of the list of content shown in the Toolbox list.

4. Select an External Content thumbnail from the Toolbox area, and then drag and drop it onto a pane of a layout incorporated into a ViewApp.

   

   The External Content thumbnail appears in the pane containing the name of the External Content item, the media type of the external content, and the viewer app that will display the media during runtime.

Some Details

• For more information about associating external content to an object that will be included in a ViewApp, see Link an External Content item to an Object in the AVEVA OMI help

• For more information about the entire set of workflows to add external content to a ViewApp, see External Content in the AVEVA OMI help.