About This Application 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) InduSoft Web Studio Page 17