Demo mode

You can run CitectSCADA without the hardware key in demonstration (Demo) mode. Demonstration mode lets you use every CitectSCADA feature normally, but with restricted runtime and I/O.

In demonstration mode you can work in multi-process (with the networking model selected as Stand alone) or single process mode.

The following demonstration modes are available:

• 15 minutes with a maximum of 50,000 real I/O.
• 10 hours with no static points and a maximum of 1 dynamic real I/O. This is useful for demonstrations using memory and disk I/O. CitectSCADA starts in this mode if no static points are configured.
• If you want to demonstrate DDE, CTAPI, or ODBC writes to CitectSCADA in this mode, you can only write 1 point. To write to more than 1 point, you need to force CitectSCADA to start in 15 minute-50,000 I/O demo mode by creating at least one static I/O point.

• For this to work, you need to configure a real variable tag, with an accompanying PLC or I/O Device. The tag needs to be used by a page or in Cicode. If you do not have a real I/O Device connected, CitectSCADA gives a hardware alert message, which you can disable using the IODeviceControl function.

• 8 hours with a maximum of 42,000 real I/O. This is only available through special CitectSCADA Integration Partners (CIP) keys.