Buttons

The Designer module offers three types of buttons, shown in the Toolbox as compound elements:

1. Button – a standard rectangular button with a label.
2. Round button – a circular button with a directional arrow.
3. X button – a round button with an X icon.

All buttons are used to trigger defined actions.

Inserting a button onto the screen

To add a button:

1. Open the Toolbox.
2. Select Button, Round button, or X button.
3. Click on the screen at the place where you want to put the button.

Once inserted, the button can be moved, scaled, and rotated.

Button properties

Once a button is selected, the properties panel shows, among others:

• Name
• Color
• Text (for the rectangular button)
• Text size, Font, Style, Font color (for the rectangular button)
• Arrow direction (for the round button)
• Position X / Y
• Width, Height, Angle

The Edit script button opens the action editor.

Editing actions assigned to a button

Actions assigned to a button can be edited in two ways:

• by double-clicking the button on the screen,
• by selecting the Edit script option in the properties panel.

This opens the Action Editor, which consists of two parts:

• Left column – the list of currently assigned actions.
• Right part – the list of "Available actions".

Available functions:

• ADD NEW – adds the selected action to the button.
• DELETE – removes the selected action.
• REPLACE – swaps the selected action for another one chosen from the list.

A button can perform any number of actions, which are triggered in the order shown in the left column.

Once configuration is complete, click ACCEPT CHANGES.

Actions triggered by a button

A button can perform one or several actions. The following are available:

• OPEN SCREEN – opening another screen.
• SEND VALUE / INSERT VALUE / TOGGLE VALUE – operations on tags.
• SET LOCAL VALUE - operations on local tags.
• LOAD TAG GROUP - loading a group of tags linked to placeholders.
• OPEN CONFIGURATION WINDOW – opening the configuration window (currently unused).
• ACK ALARM acknowledging an alarm.
• UPDATE DATA NOW - refreshing data.
• CALL SCRIPT - calling a script.
• GO BACK – returning to the previous screen.
• CLOSE POPUP – closing a popup window.
• COPY TAG VALUE – copying a tag's value.
• OPEN REPORT – opening a report.

A detailed description of the configuration and behavior of individual actions can be found in the chapter →Built-in Actions.