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Chapter 4

Human Machine Interface

BridgeVIEW User Manual

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© National Instruments Corporation

How Do You Monitor and Control Tags?

The Tags VI library and Alarms and Events VI library contain VIs for your
HMI application to interact with the BridgeVIEW Real-Time Database.
These are the primary VIs you use to build your HMI. You can use these
VIs to accomplish the following:

Read tag values

Write tag values

Monitor tag and tag group alarm and event states

Acknowledge alarms by tag and tag group

There are other VI libraries that contain VIs with which you can add
additional functionality and sophistication to your HMI. These VIs do not
interact directly with the BridgeVIEW RTDB. Instead, you can query as
well as control other features of the BridgeVIEW system. These VI
libraries are as follows:

Tag Attributes

Historical Data

System, which includes Security VIs

You can reach these VIs through the Functions palette, shown below.

Tags

(Read, Write and Trend

Tags and Constants)

System and Security

Alarms and Events

Tag Attributes

Historical Data