Movicon Help on Line - Rel. 11.7.1301
When right clicking on one of the various resources available in the "Project Explorer Window" window, Movicon will provide you with a set of contextual Menus through which you can execute a certain number of commands belonging to the resource selected. All these command are also available from the Project Explorer's "Commands" window.
All the commands that are made available are described below.
This opens the browse window to search for the existing project desired.
This command is also available from the Movicon "Tool Bar".
This opens the wizard window to create a new project.
This command is also available from the Movicon "Tool Bar".
The closes all the resources that have been opened and the active project.
This opens the wizard window to search for an existing child project or to create a new child project to insert.
This is used to remove the selected child project. This operation only removes the child project from the list of child projects but does not delete it.
This is used to insert a new variable in the Real Time DB. Before inserting the new variable, Movicon will open a dialog window through which you can assign a name to the new variable. The default name is "VAR" followed by a progressive number "00001" (i.e. VAR00001).
This is used to insert a new Variable Group in the Real Time DB. The only purpose of having Variable Groups is to organize variables together. Variables which are linked to the same device, for example, are grouped together in folders. Before inserting a Group of variables, Movicon will display a dialog window through which you can assign a name to the group. The "GROUP" name followed by a progressive number "00001" (eg. GROUP0001) is proposed for default.
This opens a dialog window through which you can select a Communication Driver from those available and insert it in the Real Time DB.
Install this Project as Windows Service
This installs Movicon as a Windows service. Therefore, Movicon will start up together with the PC as Serivce.
Uninstall from Windows Services
This is used to remove Movicon from Windows service. This command is only active when the project is installed as Service beforehand.
This opens the window for editing the Movicon Strings.
Check Options Used (Dongle Requirements)...
This opens the window for checking which License options are used. Please refer to the paragraph on "Licensing Requirements".
Upload Project to Device/FTP...
This opens a dialog window through which you can use to upload the project to a CE device. For further information, please consult the section on "Upload/Download Project" in the Movicon CE manual.
This command is also available from the Movicon "Tool Bar".
This command is currently unavailable.
This is used to insert a new Structure Prototype in the Real Time DB. The Prototype will be inserted with the 'STRUCT' name followed by a progressive number "00001" (i.e. STRUCT00001).
This is used to insert the Structure Prototype and the relating "_SysVar_" variable in the Real Time DB. This particular variable is managed by Movicon and reports a series of system information which may be very useful to the programmer.
This activates the project's cross reference compilation and automatically opens the window that displays the Variable Cross Reference.
Associate a Data Logger/Recipe to this Variable
This is used to associate a Data Logger or Recipe to the selected variable.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Associating Data Loggers and Recipes to Variables".
Associate an Alarm to this Variable
This is used to associate an Alarm to the selected variable.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Associating Alarms to Variables".
Associate an Event to this Variable
This is used to associated an Event to the selected variable.
For further information please, refer to the section on "Associating Events to Variables".
This opens a window through which you can set the parameters of the selected Communication Driver.
This opens the window through which you can set device's (PLC, etc.) the symbolic file.
This is used to insert a new member variable in the selected Structure. The variable will be inserted with the "VAR" name followed by a progressive number "00001" (Eg. VAR00001).
This opens the window used to change the order of the members within the structure.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Variable Member Order".
Inserts a new "Menu" resource in the "Menu" group.
Inserts a new "Shortcut" resource in the "Shortcuts" group.
Inserts a new "Script" resource in the "Basic Script" group.
Inserts a new Screen" resource in the "Screens" group.
Inserts a new "Folder" in the Mutiple Resources group.
Inserts a new "Parameter File" in the "Parameter Files" group.
This command allows you to insert a new local variable in the selected Screen.
This commands permits an event generated by a variable change to be inserted within the Script code of the selected object or resource. Executing this command will open the variable browse window to allow you to select the variable desired, after which Movicon will add an event defined as "OnNameVariableChanged" (Eg. OnVAR00001changed). This event will be called every time the variable changes its value at Runtime.
For further information, please refer to the sections on "Associating Variable Script Events to Screens", "Associating Variable Script Events to Symbol".
Create a WebClientX html page based on this Screen
This command generates a HTML page which will be saved in the "\RESOURCE\ProjectName\ScreenName.html" Project Folder. The html page can then be used to connect to the Server project as a Web Client.
This command applies the new name of the selected variable or resource (Screen, basic script, menu or accelerator) to all the project's resources. Upon activating this command, all the project's resources and their objects will be checked to replace the original name of variables or resources with the new one.
For further information, please refer to "Rename Variables" and "Rename Resuorces".
This inserts a new Shortcut Command in the selected Shortcut resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Shortcut Resource".
Inserts a new Menu Item in the selected Menu Resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Movicon Menu Items".
Inserts a new Popup Item in the selected Menu resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Movicon Menu Items".
Inserts a new Separator Item in the selected Menu resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Movicon Menu Items".
This opens a dialog window to change the order of the Menu Items.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Movicon Menu Items".
This performs a Menu Test during the programming phase.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Test Menus".
Inserts a new User Group in the 'Users and User Group' resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Users and Passwords management".
Inserts a new User in the selected User Group.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Users and Passwords management".
Add Users to Windows Local Domain
Inserts users from the selected group in the PC's Local Windows Domain.
Inserts a new Data Logger in the "Data Logger and Recipe" resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Data Loggers and Recipes".
Inserts a new Recipe in the "Data Logger and Recipe" resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Data Loggers and Recipes".
Inserts a new column in the selected Data Logger or Recipe resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Data Loggers and Recipes".
Creates a Data Logger or a Recipe by importing the structure from an already existing Database.
Creates a Screen by automatically inserting the components (display, buttons, etc.) needed to display and change the selected recipe. This command is very useful to have when needing to save time in creating recipe graphics. For further information, please refer to the section on "Creating Recipe screens".
This command runs the Report Designer for creating or modifying properties to be associated to the Data Logger or Recipe.
This command creates the Web page for displaying the Report associated to the Data Logger or Recipe via Web.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Reports and Viewing Data via WEB".
This command creates the Web page for displaying data from the Data Logger or Recipe via Web. In this case, the data will be displayed in table format and, therefore, the Data Logger or Recipe will not need to be associated with a Report.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Reports and Viewing Data via WEB".
Inserts a new alarm object in the Movicon 'Alarm List' resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Alarms".
Inserts a new threshold event for the selected alarm object.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Alarms".
This inserts a new Alarm Area. Before inserting the Area, Movicon will display a dialog window which you can use to assign the name of the Area. The "AREA" name will be proposed for default followed by a progressive number "00001" (e.g. AREA00001).
For further information, please refer to the section on "Alarms Area".
Inserts a new Event Object in the Movicon 'Event Objects List' resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Commands on Event".
Inserts a new Scaling Object in the Movicon 'Scaling Objects List' resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Variable Scaling".
Inserts a new Scheduler Object in the Movicon 'Scheduler Objects List' resource.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Command Scheduler".
Inserts a new RAS Station.
For further information, please refer to the section on "RAS Stations".
Inserts new Client Rules.
For further information, please refer to the section on "Client Profiles".
Opens the Windows' window for the system's DCOM settings.
