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Page Properties

A page itself has properties which you can adjust in the Right panel of the page editor.

Fig. 1. Page properties

General properties

The GENERAL set of properties contains different parameters related to the page display in HMI View. You can turn background on and off in the same-named checkbox. The page background can be different colours which are editable in the palette. Click the button to the left from the Background checkbox to open it.

The Snap To property has two options:

  • None
  • Grid

When you choose Grid, a perpendicular grid is displayed on the page. Properties Snap To Grid Width and Snap To Grid Height are for setting the grid’s size. The default value for both fields is 10. You can set different values for each parameter.

Values of these fields are integer.

The Supports Full Screen setting is responsible for enabling or disabling the full-screen mode when observing the page in HMI View.

The following two parameters are also related to the page display:

  • Auto Scale
    Sets a predefined proportion of page elements.
  • Auto Center
    Sets arrangement (centered) of page elements.

The Description field allows you to type texts displayed in the Page Info pop-up. Click the Localization button to open the menu. In the Localization menu, you can set a description for each available language. If the description is not set in the specific language, the description to be displayed in the default language in HMI View.

Localization menu

Fig. 2. Localization menu

Additional properties

You can associate Trend Groups with pages. Click MANAGE in the TREND GROUPS property and add one or several trend groups. HMI View users can observe these trend groups by clicking the View Trend Groups button in Horizontal Toolbar.

The MANAGED TAGS property allows associating writable tags with a page so HMI View user would be able to change tag values via the Manage Tag Values menu.

Attach documents from the Documents menu via configuring the ATTACHED DOCUMENTS property. Click MANAGE and choose the .pdf files. The attached document is not visible to those HMI View users that do not have permission to view it.

You can pick several files by holding Ctrl and left-clicking the files you need.