Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 165)

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HMI projects
HMI projects contain graphic displays, data log models, HMI tags, HMI tag alarms, and
other services.
The HMI project is created with the HMI server, when you create a local station
application. The HMI project is loaded by the HMI server.
HMI clients
HMI clients are software programs that obtain information from, or write information to
HMI servers or data servers. FactoryTalk View Studio, the FactoryTalk View SE
Administration Console, and the FactoryTalk View SE Client are all HMI clients.
Relative references
In a local station application, you use relative references to refer to application
components, such as graphic displays and tags, when building FactoryTalk View
commands or connecting graphic objects to process data.
Relative references point at a component relative to the current application.
For example, a relative reference to a display named Detail is simply the display’s name:
Detail. To set up a button in a graphic display to open the Detail display at run time, use
Display Detail
as the button’s press action.
Language switching
To make user-defined text strings in an application available at run time in up to 40
different languages, set up language switching for the application.
For more information, see Chapter 13, Setting up language switching.
Creating local station applications
To create a local station application, in FactoryTalk View Studio, first you create the
application, and then you add elements such as an RSLinx Enterprise server, a
FactoryTalk Tag Alarm and Event Server, and OPC data servers.
To create a local station application
1. Select Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk View >
FactoryTalk View Studio.
2. In the Application Type Selection dialog box, select Site Edition (Local Station), and
then click Continue.