Expression Editor
You can initiate the when editing properties of a page element. indicates that you can open the dialogue window. As reflected in the icon as well, the scripting language for expressions is Javascript.
When the icon is blue, then the expression has already been set.
In the following image, you can see the .
Fig. 1. Expression Editor
There are buttons in the header represent functions to ease your work with the expression editor:
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Allows users to insert a predefined expression. The expression to be pasted depends on the property. You can use this button when editing the following properties.
| Expression | Property |
|---|---|
| value | Manual |
| Manual_mode | |
| Is_running | |
| Value | |
| isVisible | |
| Blinking | |
| changeValue | Click |
| formatValue | Text |
Table 1. Properties that allow you to insert a quick snippet
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Opens a menu that allows you to pick an alarm from the list. You will have the alarm’s relative path inserted to the cursor’s position as the result of the operation. -
Opens a menu that allows you to pick a tag from the list. You will have the tag’s relative path inserted to the cursor’s position as the result of the operation. When picking tags with Pick up a tag button or via a hotkey combination, you can select several tags, just hold thectrlbutton and choose tags with the mouse. -
Opens a menu that allows you to pick a page from the list. You will have the page’s relative path inserted to the cursor’s position as the result of the operation.
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Alt + Shift + A for alarm picking
Alt + Shift + T for tag picking
Alt + Shift + P for page picking
Ctrl + Space combination opens a list of available options at the cursor position.
The Expression editor has a validation mechanism which prevents its users from entering incorrect syntax.