Parametrized Pages
Custom Widgets
Pages 119 to 138 in your workbook
Parameters
• The super simple example: X + Y
– Put in any two numbers for X and Y.
• Parametrized pages in VTScada:
– Put in any tag for the widgets
– Reuse the same page
Create Parameters
• Page Properties ribbon in the Idea Studio.
• Manage Parameters tool.
• Parameters can be text, numeric or tag.
• Useful to link parameters to initial values in
the Idea Studio
Link Widgets
• Edit the properties of the widgets to link them
to parameters instead of tags.
Link Tags
• Select the tag set to use when opening the
page.
• Parameters can be specified for the page in
the menu, page hotboxes, and page buttons.
Custom Widgets
• Very similar to parametrized pages.
• Intended for user-defined tags with multiple
child-tags.
Linked Tag Properties
• Rather than just link a widget to a tag (value),
you can link to any property of the tag:
Pages + Widgets
• A parametrized page needs one parameter for
every widget.
• A custom widget just links to the parent tag.
Child tags take care of themselves.
• Combine them and get a parametrized page
that needs only one parameter.
Details
• Pages can contain widgets, but widgets can’t
contain pages.
• Tag Icon Marker (yellow blob). Usually
deleted. Can use for a Questionable flag.
• Custom widgets contain widgets. A click hits
both the container and the contained.
– Therefore, standard practice is to disable trends
etc. for each custom widget when drawn. Clicks
then go straight to the contained widgets.
Exercises 7-1 through 7-7