Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 389)

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Creating graphic displays
This chapter describes:
 What graphic displays are.
 Parts of the Graphics editor.
 Techniques for working in graphic displays.
 Techniques for working with graphic objects.
 Testing graphic displays.
 Creating and working with global object displays.
 Adding controller instruction faceplates to an application.
 Using objects from the graphic libraries.
 Importing graphic files from third-party applications.
 Using placeholders to specify tag values.
 Setting up tag placeholders for global objects.
 Setting up the appearance and behavior of graphic displays.
 Docking displays to the FactoryTalk View SE Client window.
 Printing graphic displays at run time.
About graphic displays
A graphic display represents a run-time operator’s view of plant activity.
A graphic display can show system or process data, and provide an operator with ways to
write values to external devices such as programmable controllers. To create a visual
record of tag values, the operator can print the display at run time.
A graphic display can contain up to a total of 3000 connections, whether they originate
from the expressions or the tags.
 Each expression associated with an object is counted as one connection regardless of
the number of tags in the expression.
 Each animation of an object (except the Touch animation) is counted as one
connection.