Product Features

The InduSoft Web Studio product provides the following features:

Integrated Windows development environment with toolbars, dialogs, and menus:
- Drop-down (pop-up) menus, which you activate by right-clicking on any area of the development environment (Options vary according to context.)
- Customizable fly-over toolbars
- Tasks, objects, and controls organized in a tree-view explorer
Full-featured objects and animations (the ability to modify object properties, execute commands, or inset values to tags used to build screens on the fly at runtime):
- Configurable objects such as buttons, rectangles, ellipse, polygons, lines, and text
- Object animations such as bar graphs, color, resizing, position, hide/unhide, rotation, command, hyperlink, and text input/output
- On-line and historical alarm list displays
- On-line and historical trending
- Alignment and distribution tools
- Background bitmap layer creation and editing
- Graphics importation
- ActiveX object containers
On-line remote management and configuration
Microsoft DNA architecture compliance, with full OPC and XML support
Web interface enabled, which exports project screens to a "thin" client through the Internet/intranet and by exchanging data on-line through the TCP/IP protocol
Symbols library with more than 100 pre-made objects, such as pushbuttons, meters, sliders, switches, text and numeric displays, LED-style indicators, pipes, bumps, icons, vehicles, valves, frames, motors, gauges, and common controls
Debugging tools:
- Database Spy window to monitor/force tag values and execute functions
- LogWin module to record OPC, DDE, and TCP/IP transactions, modules activation, trace tags, and so forth
- Cross-referencing to locate tags throughout the project
- On-line system and network diagnostics
Powerful and flexible tag database (Boolean, Integer, Real, and String tags), array tags, classes, and indirect tag-pointers
Open architecture with API exchanges and tag values with external software
Translation editor, which enables you to translate a project into several different languages, and switch between them while the runtime system is online
TCP/IP client and server modules to exchange tag values and configure redundancy systems
More than 200 direct communication drivers for different devices (such as PLC) from several manufacturers; such as Allen-Bradley, Siemens, GE-Fanuc, as well as standard protocols such as MODBUS RTU/ASCII, DeviceNet, Profibus, Interbus, and so forth
Full integration with PC-based control packages (imports tags database) such as ISaGRAF, SteepleChase, Think&Do, OpenControl, FP Control and ASAP.
OPC Server and OPC Client with integrated OPC Browser
Screen and object password-protected runtime security (256 levels)
Logical expressions and a scripting language with more than 200 functions
Recipe and Report (ASCII, UNICODE, and RTF formats) builders integrated into the product
Event scheduler based on date, time, or data condition (100ms resolution)
Multi-layer project, which means modular worksheets and screens can be merged easily to other projects
Dial-Up functions to trigger, monitor, and hang-up a dial-up connection with the RAS Server of remote stations
Functions to send e-mail from IWS (or CEView)
Real-time project documentation
Screen resolution converter

Note: IWS provides different product types for each level of project responsibility. However, IWS does not support some features in certain product types (such as CEView). You can review the TargetVersions.pdf document on the IWS installation CD for detailed information about these the limitations of each product-type limitations.