The Development Environment Tasks tab The Tasks tab of the Project Explorer organizes the worksheets that are processed as background tasks (i.e., server-based maintenance tasks that are not directly related to screen operations or device I/O) during project runtime. Tasks tab of the Project Explorer The folders on the Tasks tab are described in the following sections: Alarms You can use Alarm worksheets to define when alarms are trigged, how they must be handled, and what messages they generate.
(You can then use the Alarm/Event Control screen object to display your alarms on screen, but that is a separate procedure.) Trends You can use Trend worksheets to select project tags that should be displayed as data trends and/or saved as historical data. (You can then use the Trend Control screen object to actually display your trends on screen, but that is a separate procedure.) Recipes You can use Recipe worksheets to select project tags that will load values from and/or save values to an external file. These worksheets are typically used to execute process recipes, but you can store any type of information such as passwords, operation logs, and so on.
(You can then call the Recipe function to actually run a configured Recipe worksheet, but that is a separate procedure.) Reports You can use Report worksheets to design runtime reports that are either sent to a printer or saved to disk. Page 42