Introduction

Menu bar

Below you will find the submenus of the menu bar and descriptions of how to use them:

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  • Connect or disconnect to/from a server

  • Opens the Project Console

  • Opens the certificate management for connection certificates

  • Changes the server log level

  • Imports an XML document

  • Shows your project's history

  • Opens atvise live in a tab

  • Opens the preferences dialog

  • Change builder's language

  • Closes the builder

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  • Adds an OpcUA, OpcCOM or webMI source to a scada server

  • Adds an atvise webMI-compliant server to your project

  • Adds an atvise webMI demo web server to your project

  • Starts an atvise webMI demo web server in console mode

  • Imports all variables from a specific source

  • Adds a display to a specific server

  • Generates the complete visualization and sends it to a target device

  • Opens the visualization in your standard browser

  • Opens an external tool

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  • Exports the project's entire address space

  • Imports the project's entire address space

  • Opens the configuration dialog for defining the base directory

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  • Opens the access control editor for assigning access rights

  • Opens the settings dialog

  • Opens the user editor for the current user

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  • Switch between the profiles which were added in the preferences dialog

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  • View or hide the Second Window for editing displays, scripts, etc.

  • View or hide the Global Search window

  • View or hide the Message window

  • View or hide the Navigator window (contains the Project and Node Browser tabs)

  • View or hide the Library window

  • View or hide the Node Browser tab

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  • Opens the atvise help file

  • Context sensitive help for certain areas

  • Version information and further information about Qt

  • Information about the atvise builder

Preferences

With the help of the preference settings, you can customize the builder´s setup to your needs:

General Preferences

Under general preferences you can

  • have the atvise builder remember the size of the parameter dialog

  • set a default profile

  • have the builder remember a specific number of the last-connected servers

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Profiles

Root Nodes:

  • Customize the tree view's items according to your preferences by selecting an item and using the arrows in the middle to add it to or remove it from the target.

General:

  • Show or hide the node browser in the "View" menu

  • Allow or disallow webMI type and instance manipulation

SVG Editor:

  • Show or hide different toolbar or menu items

  • Enable bindings

  • Allow catalog editing

  • Show or hide default transformation items

Dynamics:

  • Allow or disallow simple dynamics

  • Show or hide dynamics and identifier

Attributes:

  • Enable or disable SVG attributes

  • Allow or disallow manual overwrites

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Text Editor

Font & Colors:

  • Define font size, style and color.

Behavior:

  • Enable text wrapping

  • Show or hide line numbers, whitespaces and tabs

  • Set the tab size

  • Enable or disable highlighting of the current line

  • Show or hide information and errors

  • Show or hide matching parentheses

  • Show or hide function declarations

  • Enable or disable automatic closing of brackets and quotes

  • Enable or disable code completion

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External Tools

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Here you can collect external Tools/Applications which can be started from the menu.

  • Enter a unique name that will be displayed in the menu

  • Command, that starts the tool/application (e.g. the path of the *.exe-file)

  • Optional arguments for the tool

  • Optional working directory for the tool

Starting external tools from the menu:

  • Names are listed in order given in dialog.

  • Command will be called.

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