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1. Introduction to WebAccess HMI & SCADA
1.1 HMI & SCADA applications
1.2 System Components & Concepts
1.2.1 Standalone System
1.2.1.1 Standalone PC with configuration tool on Laptop
1.2.1.2 Standalone PC with remote dial up access
1.2.2 Network Architecture
1.2.3 SCADA Nodes
1.2.3.1 Distributed Control & IO Architecture
1.2.3.2 Device Drivers and IO Tags on the SCADA node
1.2.3.3 License and Hardkey required for SCADA node
1.2.3.4 Hot Standby SCADA Node
1.2.3.5 Redundant SCADA nodes
1.2.3.6 Redundant Communications Ports
1.2.4 Project Node
1.2.5 Clients
1.2.6 Client - System Requirements
1.2.7 Thin Client Requirements
2. WebAccess VIEW
2.1 Web Browser log-in
2.1.1 About Addresses
2.1.2 WebAccess Home Page
2.1.3 Download and Install Client Plug-in
2.1.3.1 The first time you connect
2.2 Start WebAccess VIEW
2.2.1 Login - Username and Password
2.2.2 Other ways to start VIEW
2.2.2.1 A link on an HTML web page
2.2.2.2 Favorites menu
2.2.2.3 One Click Log-ins
2.2.2.4 Start View from the Project Manager
2.2.2.5 Default ASP ("Home page")
2.2.3 View Property
2.2.3.1 Caption
2.2.3.2 Toolbar
2.2.3.3 Status Bar
2.2.3.4 Clipping and Scroll Bars
3. Display Navigation
3.1 Mouse, Trackball, Touch screen & Keyboard
3.2 "Right Click" Popup Menu
3.3 Toolbar
3.3.1 Standard Toolbar buttons
3.3.2 Toolbar, GOTO Menu and Keyboard have similar functions
3.3.3 Toolbar changes with Display Type or Display Name
3.3.3.1 Toolbar - Recipe Display
3.4 Pushbuttons on Displays
3.5 Keyboard Function Keys
4. Popup Dialog Boxes & Menus
4.1 Graph List Dialog Box
4.2 Point Info (Tag Browser)
4.3 Change Dialog Box
4.3.1 Change Dialog Box - Analog Tags
4.3.2 Change Dialog Box - Discrete Tags
4.3.3 Change Dialog Box - Text-type Tags
4.3.4 Keyboard Keys for Change Dialog Box
4.4 Other Ways to Change the value of a Tag
4.5 Point GOTO display finder
5. Standard Displays
5.1 Alarm Summary
5.1.1 Description
5.1.2 Sort Alarms
5.1.3 Alarm Graph
5.1.4 Acknowledge Point
5.1.5 Acknowledge Screen
5.1.6 Acknowledge All
5.1.7 Advanced Button (Filter Alarms)
5.1.8 Filtered # of Alarms
5.1.9 Total Number of Alarms
5.1.10 Modified Alarm Summary
5.1.11 Alarm Precedence
5.2 Alarm Log
5.2.1 Print the Alarm Log - by request
5.3 Alarm Groups
5.3.1 Alarm E/D
5.3.2 Acknowledge Screen
5.3.3 Acknowledge Tag
5.3.4 Acknowledge Group
5.3.5 Group No
5.3.6 Current Value
5.3.7 Tag Description
5.3.8 Disable or Enable Alarming from Alarm Group
5.3.9 Disable or Enable Alarming from the Point Info
5.4 Action Log
5.5 Trends
5.5.1 Data Log Trend Groups
5.5.2 Data Log Trend Display
5.5.2.1 Crosshair
5.5.2.2 To Change the Time Span of a Data Log Trend in View
5.5.2.3 Data Type
5.5.2.4 Alarm Graph
5.5.2.5 Acknowledge Point
5.5.2.6 Acknowledge Group
5.5.2.7 Change the Display High and Low Span in View
5.5.2.8 To Add a Tag (temporarily) to a Data Log Trend in VIEW
5.5.2.9 Change Sample Type to MAX, MIN, AVG or LAST
5.5.2.10 Change Value
5.5.2.11 To Jump directly to a certain day or time
5.5.3 Customize the Data Log Trend Display
5.5.4 Real-time Trend Displays
5.5.4 Real-time Trend Displays
5.5.4.1 Alarm Graph
5.5.4.2 Acknowledge Point
5.5.4.3 Acknowledge Group
5.5.4.6 Change Value
5.5.4.4 Change the Display High and Low Span in View
5.5.4.5 To Add a Tag (temporarily) to a RealTime Trend in VIEW
5.5.5 Export Trend Data
5.6 Station Status
5.7 User Program Status
5.8 Global Script Status
5.9 OVERVIEW Displays
5.10 Faceplate Group Displays
5.10.1 Faceplate Group Display
5.10.1.1 Block Detail
5.10.1.2 ACK Point
5.10.1.3 ACK Block
5.11 Block Detail Display
5.11.1 Overview Display Hierarchy
5.12 Point Detail Display
5.13 Recipes
5.13.1 Recipe List Dialog Box
5.13.2 Recipe Display
5.13.2.1 WHITE Text
5.13.2.2 Red Text is an Alarm
5.13.2.3 Change Preset
5.13.2.4 Download Recipe
5.13.2.5 Recipe SCALE
5.13.2 Recipe Display
5.14 Video
5.14.1 Single Video Display (full screen)
5.14.1.1 Video Dialog Box
5.14.2 Video Mixed with Graphics
5.15 Scheduler
5.15.1 Force a Circuit Group ON or OFF
5.16 Central Database Logs
5.16.1 Copy and Paste Data to another application
5.16.2 Export to EXCEL from ODBC Log
5.17 Scheduled Reports
5.17.1 View past or current report5
5.17.2 Shift Report
5.17.2.1 Shift Report Navigation
5.17.3 Daily Report
5.17.3.1 Daily Report Navigation
5.17.4 Monthly Report
5.17.4 Monthly Report
5.17.4.1 Monthly Report Navigation
5.17.5 Email Scheduled Reports
5.17.6 Export Scheduled Reports to EXCEL
5.18 ZOOM
5.19 Print
6. Display Groups & ViewDAQ
6.1 Display Groups
6.1.1 Display Group features
6.1.2 Display Group Terminology & Concepts
6.1.3 Scroll Bars and Clipping
6.1.3.1 Create a Display Group with Clipping and Scroll Bars
6.1.4 Display Groups in a Web Browser
6.2 ViewDAQ - local to SCADA node
6.3 SCADA Node Kernel
6.3.1 Start Kernel from Taskbar Icon
6.3.2 Taskbar Icon Color Codes
6.3.3 Stop kernel
6.4 Start ViewDAQ
6.4.1 Double Click Icon to Start ViewDAQ
6.4.2 Taskbar Menu to Start ViewDAQ
6.5 Exit ViewDAQ
6.5.1 Exit from Menu Bar
6.5.2 Exit from Windows Title Bar (Close Window)
6.5.3 Close ViewDAQ Groups
6.5.4 Download or Stop from Project Manager
6.6 Menu bar & Right Click Menu
6.6.1 Right Click (VIEW) - Menu Bar (ViewDAQ)
6.6.2 Right Click ViewDAQ - File & View Menus
6.7 Create a new Display Group
6.8 Open Display Group
6.8.1 Open Display Group from Menu Bar
6.8.2 Open Display Group from Right Click Menu
6.8.3 Open Display Group from Pushbutton
6.8.4 Popup Display Group
6.8.5 Popup Dependant Display Group
6.9 Close ViewDAQ Groups
6.9.1 Close ViewDAQs in Display Group
6.9.2 Close All ViewDAQs
6.9.3 Close Other ViewDAQ Groups
6.9.4 Close Current ViewDAQ Groups
6.9.5 Close Current and Dependant ViewDAQs
6.9.6 Close Dependant ViewDAQs
6.10 Save ViewDAQs
6.10.1 Save ViewDAQ in Display Group
6.10.2 Save All ViewDAQ Groups
6.10.3 Save Other ViewDAQ Groups
6.10.4 Save Current ViewDAQ Group
6.10.5 Save Current and Dependant ViewDAQs
6.10.6 Save Dependant ViewDAQs
6.11 Style Options
6.11.1.1 Popup with Title
6.11.1.2 Popup without Title
6.11.1.3 Overlapped Window with Title
6.12 Window Options
6.12.1 Disable Size
6.12.2 Disable Size and Move
6.12.3 Hide Menu Bar
6.12.4 Hide Toolbar
6.12.5 Hide Status Bar
6.13 ViewDAQ Options
6.13.1 Disable Goto
6.13.2 ViewDAQ Definition
6.13.3 Exit Password Level
6.14 DrawDAQ - local to Project node
7. Thin Client for Pocket PCs
8. Security
8.1 Overview - User Security & Passwords
8.2 User Types
8.2.1 Administrator
8.2.2 Project User
8.2.3 Power User
8.2.4 General User
8.2.5 Restricted User
8.2.6 User Manager
8.2.7 Security Summary
8.3 Login through Web Browser Client
8.4 Login to ViewDAQ - local SCADA node
8.4.1.1 ViewDAQ ignores User Types
8.4.1.2 Login from any display in ViewDAQ
8.4.1.3 Exit ViewDAQ
8.4 Login to ViewDAQ - local SCADA node
8.5 Graphic Page Access
8.5.1 Default Graphic
8.5.2 Restricted User
8.6 Area and Level
8.6.1 Tag Field
8.6.2 ViewDAQ
8.7 WebAccess and Windows Security
8.7.1 Web Browser Client and Windows Security
9. Tags
9.1 Tag Names
9.1.1 Characters used in a Tag Name
9.1.2 Blocks Group Multiple IO under one Tag name.
9.1.3 Colon used Block:Parameter ( : )
9.1.4 Where are Block:Parameters Listed?
9.2 ViewDAQ Tags
9.3 Tag Fields
10. Alarms
10.1 Status Bar Alarms
10.2 Pager & Email notification of Alarms
10.2.1 Schedule Alarm Email recipients by Shift or Day
10.3 Text-to-Speech Alarm Annunciator
10.4 Alarm Beep (System Speaker)
10.5 Alarm Summary
10.5.1 Alarm Acknowledgement
11. Appendix
11.1 Download & Install Client Plug-in
11.1.1 Client Plug-in download from Project node
11.1.1.1 Download Client Plug-in
11.1.1.2 Run WebAccess Setup.exe
11.1.2 Client Plug-in installation from CD (optional)
11.2 Table of Figures & Displays
12. Troubleshooting
12.1 VIEW web browser
12.1.1 Blank Screen in VIEW
12.1.2 Firewalls
12.1.2.1 Test TCP Ports
12.1.3 Check Internet Explorer Security Settings
12.1.3.1 Security settings do not allow file download
12.1.4 Check the Deploy file from Web browser client
12.1.5 Check User Security to install and run VIEW
12.1.5.1 Download the Client Plug-in from the Project you are trying to connect to be sure your
12.1.6 Waiting for Connection To SCADA Node
12.1.7 Exclamation mark !
12.1.8 Asterisk *
12.1.9 Pound sign #
12.1.10 Video, Reports, System Logs can't be seen in View
12.1.11 Add-Ons disabled in IE prevent Client from Starting
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