Configure Visualization

When configuring a visualization you have to distinguish between the configuration a particular graphic element and the visualization object as a whole. Correspondingly a different selection of configuration dialogs will be available, which can be opened by the command 'Configure' from Menu 'Extras' resp. from the context menu.
In this dialogs the properties of an element or object are set either by activating options or dynamically by inserting project variables. Besides that the properties can be programmed via the components of a structure variable, which can be defined for each visualization element.

	Regard the order of analysis, which will be followed in online mode: - The values which are given dynamically, i.e. via project variables, will overwrite the fix parameters defined for the same property. - If an element property is defined by a "normal" project variable as well as by the component of a structure variable, then in online mode primarily the value of the project variable will be regarded.

The possibility of using placeholders should also be noted, as well as the special input options with regard to the use of a visualization with the TwinCAT PLC Control visualization, i.e. as an exclusive operating interface for a control program.

Placeholders

At each location in the configuration dialog at which variables or text are entered, a placeholder can be set in place of the respective variable or text. This makes sense if the visualization object is not to be used directly in the program, but is created to be inserted in other visualization objects as an "instance". When configuring such an Instance, the placeholders can be replaced with variable names or with text.

See for Placeholder concept.

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