Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 417)

16 • C REATING GRAPHIC DISPLAYS
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To create a new global object display
 In FactoryTalk View Studio, in the Explorer window, right-click the Global Objects
icon, and then select New.
The new global object display opens in the Graphics editor. Use tools in the editor to
create global objects, just as you would create graphic objects in a standard display.
To create a global object display from an standard display
1. In FactoryTalk View Studio, in the Explorer window, right-click the Global Objects
icon, and then select Add Component into Application.
2. Browse to and select the standard display or library to add, and then click Open.
Adding standard displays that contain reference objects
In a network distributed application, if you add a standard display or graphic library
containing linked reference objects into the Global Objects folder, the linked reference
objects:
 Convert to global objects, if added within the same HMI server
 Are deleted, if added to a different HMI server
About global object displays at run time
When a graphic display, containing global reference objects is run, the global object
display (or displays) containing the linked base objects also runs, in the background.
When you modify the base object in a global object display, all linked reference objects
are updated with the changes, the next time their host displays are opened or refreshed.
Since global object displays run in the background, you cannot select or specify one:
 As a parameter for the Display command.
 From the Component Browser, when creating a display list selector object.
 As the initial display, when creating a client file in the FactoryTalk View SE Client
Wizard.
The number of global object displays in an application does not count toward the maximum
number of licensed displays the application can contain. For information about activation and
licensing, see the FactoryTalk View Site Edition Installation Guide.
Existing reference objects with broken links are always deleted, whether you add them within the
same HMI server, or to a different one.