Panel Name

fwDeviceEditorNavigator.pnl

Introduction

The Device Manager is the entry panel of the Framework. Most of the Framework functionality is available navigating from it.
The user can navigate in two modes, Configuration and Operation. The Configuration mode is meant to create/remove and configure the required devices inside WinCC. Once they are configured, then the user can switch to Operation mode to do basic operations to setup device specific parameters.

Instructions

The panel is organized in three tabs (Hardware, Logical, FSM) reflecting the steps necessary to configure the necessary for your application.  Each tab has two different working modes: Configuration and Operation.

  1. Hardware View (Figure 1):
The first step when creating your application is to instantiate and set up the representation of the devices you are using (e.g. high voltage crates, temperature sensors, etc) inside WinCC. This is done in the Hardware View. In this view the devices are organized in vendor nodes (e.g. CAEN, Wiener). The following actions are available when right clicking in the tree in Configuration mode (for more details go to the help of the specific panel):
  • 'Add ...': to create new devices in WinCC and configure them with the default settings.
  • 'Clone ...': to copy a subtree of devices keeping their configuration.
  • 'Remove': to delete a subtree of devices. It actually deletes the devices from WinCC.
  • 'Mass configuration ...': to configure a subtree of devices. It is also possible to configure a part of the tree selected according to some criteria.
  • 'Settings ...': Open the basic settings panel which, besides setting basic parameters, can also link to an advanced settings panel.
  • 'Properties ...': Displays all the elements of the selected device together with the configuration for each of them.
  • 'Configuration DB ...': If the Configuration DB tool is installed, a panel will pop-up to deal with the storage and retrieval of the selected subtree in a database.
At the system level node the following options are available:
  • 'System settings ...': To set system parameters. Currently only the help browser is specified.
  • 'Mass configuration ...': To configure all the devices in the hardware tree. It is also possible to configure a subset selected according to some criteria.
  • 'Register device type ...': Register an existing WinCC datapoint type as a Framework device.
  • 'Inactive alarms ...': List all alarms in the system which are inactive (masked). These are alarms for which the alarm condition is still evaluated, but no alarm is raised when the alarm condition is raised.
  • 'Installation tool ...': opens the Installation Tool
2. Logical View (Figure 2):
After the hardware representation has been created, one can move to the organization of devices in logical units. This is done in the Logical and FSM tabs. In the Logical View one can group devices at a low level to build units that will be used afterwards in the FSM hierarchy. The following actions are available when right clicking in the tree in Configuration mode (for more details go to the help of the specific panel):
  • 'Add' -> 'Add node ...': Create an empty logical node.
  • 'Add' -> 'Add from hardware ...': Add devices created in the hardware View to a logical node.
  • 'Cut': Move a subtree of devices to the clipboard.
  • 'Paste': Take a subtree of devices from the clipboard and put it as child of the selected device.
  • 'Remove': Delete a subtree from the logical tree. The devices are not removed from WinCC. Simply their alias is set to null.
  • 'Rename ...': Change the logical name (WinCC alias) of the selected device.
  • 'Mass configuration ...': Configure a subtree of devices. It is also possible to configure a part of the tree selected according to some criteria.
  • 'Settings ...': Open the basic settings panel which, besides setting basic parameters, can also link to an advanced settings panel.
  • 'Properties ...': Display all elements of the selected device together with the configuration for each of them.
  • 'Configuration DB ...': If the Configuration DB tool is installed, a panel will pop-up to deal with the storage and retrieval of the selected subtree in a database.
some of these actions might be disabled depending on the type of the selected device. At the system level node the following options are available:
  • 'Add' -> 'Add node ...': Create an empty logical node.
  • 'Add' -> 'Add from hardware ...': Add devices created in the hardware View to a logical node.
  • 'Paste': Paste a subtree available from the clipboard.
  • 'Mass configuration ...': Configure all the devices in the logical tree. It is also possible to configure a subset selected according to some criteria.
  • 'Installation tool ...': Open the Installation Tool
3. FSM View:
Here is where you can add behaviour to the devices in the Hardware and Logical Views. For more details on how to use the FSM View, you can have a look at the home page of the fwFSM component fwFSM.

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Figure 1. Hardware View.

   
Figure 2. Logical View.

 

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