Creating a project

There are two ways to create a new project:

• Use a pre-defined starter project
• Create a project from scratch

To base a project on an existing starter project:

1. Start Citect Explorer.
2. Choose New Project from the File menu, or click the New Project button.
3. Type a name for your project and choose a location for the files. This is mandatory.
4. Enter a Description, and the Location where the new project files are stored.
5. Click the Create project based on starter project checkbox.
6. Choose the project on which you want to base your new project.
7. Click OK.

The starter project will contain pages, roles and other features that will help you quickly get started with you project. Exact features will vary based on the template you base your project on. For example, the Tab_Style starter project will contain:

• A cluster named "Cluster1".
• A role named "Administrators" which is linked to the "BUILTIN\Administrators" Windows group and have global privilege of 8.
• Pages of Alarm, Summary, Disabled, Hardware, ProcessAnalyst and !ProcessAnalystPopup based on the relevant templates found in the Tab_Style_Include project.

The newly created project will be immediately compilable, and will contain a basic level of built-in functions such as viewing alarms and trends.

To create a project from scratch

To make it easier to configure a project from scratch, follow these steps:

1. Start Citect Explorer.
2. Choose New Project from the File menu, or click the New Project button.
3. Type a name for your project and choose a location for the files. This is mandatory.
4. Enter a Description, and the Location where the new project files are stored.
5. Select a Template style and Template resolution to set the appearance of the graphics pages.
6. Click OK.

If creating a project based on the tab style templates, don't include pages based on templates that use a different style, including the earlier CSV_Include project. Doing so might affect functionality.

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