Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 416)

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To view an object’s states using the Property Panel
1. Select one or more objects.
2. In the Property Panel, click the State property, and then click the state to view.
3. To view the next state quickly, double-click the row, or press Enter on the keyboard.
Creating and working with global object displays
Use the Graphics editor to create global object displays in the Global Objects folder, the
same way you create standard displays in the Displays folder.
All of the objects and groups of objects created in a global object display are global
objects. Any graphic object you can create in FactoryTalk View can be a global object,
except for ActiveX controls, OLE objects, and HMI tag alarm summaries.
When you copy a global object into a standard graphic display (in the Displays folder), the
copy is called a reference object. The original global object (in the Global Objects folder)
becomes the copy’s base object.
Reference objects have special properties that link them to the original, base objects.
When you modify properties of a base object, the changes are copied to all reference
objects linked to the base object.
For information about setting up the properties that link base and reference objects, see
“Setting up the link properties of reference objects” on page 17-51.
You can produce an unlimited number of reference objects from a single base object.
However, reference objects can only link to a base object within the same application or,
in a network distributed application, within the same HMI server.
Creating global object displays
To create a global object display, create a new display in the Global Objects folder, or add
a standard display or graphic library into the Global Objects folder.
When you add a standard display into the Global Objects folder, graphic objects in the
display convert to global objects, except for ActiveX controls, OLE objects, HMI tag
alarm summaries, and reference objects with broken links. These objects are deleted.
About global object display files
Global object display files are saved with the extension .ggfx, to the following location on
the development computer:
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\RSView Enterprise\SE\HMI
Projects\<HMI Project Name>\Global Objects