Product specifications
System Status
214 3BDS011222-510 B
3. Create Topology aspects and configure the Component view for the objects to
represent in the hierarchy above the controllers.
4. If applicable add texts/labels to the new Components with aspect property
references that subscribe to status information. Or include other elements with
access to and representation of status information, for example ActiveX
controls.
5. On the object representing the plant add a Topology aspect and create a new
Topology Diagram from the skeleton Plant Network. It is populated
automatically with the Topology components in the Control Structure hierarchy
below your plant object down to the Controller objects.
6. Arrange the symbols of the Topology components and connect them as
required. Add additional labels/ texts / graphical symbols as required. Save the
diagram.
7. Switch on Subscribe for Live Data in the View menu. Live Data status
information is shown. Prerequisites are: OPC servers are operating and
Controllers are running.
8. To view and navigate such Topology Diagrams from a Graphic Display on
Operator Workplaces you include an Aspect Link to the top Topology aspect in
Control Structure into this Graphic Display.
To view and navigate such Topology Diagrams (as you can see in System 800xA,
System Planning (3BSE041389*) from a Graphic Display on Operator Workplaces
you include an Aspect Link to the top Topology aspect in Control Structure into this
Graphic Display. As an operator or a maintenance person (with Operator Role) you
can inspect the live status information in the diagrams and navigate in the hierarchy
of diagrams:
1. Press the Aspect Link button in the Graphic Display to open the pop-up
window with the Topology Diagram.
2. Set Window > Workbook Mode for the pop-up window.
(Workbook mode is set by default.)
3. Switch on View > Subscribe for Live Data.
4. Use the object context menu item Goto Child Diagram (for example on a
controller object shown in the diagram) to navigate to a child diagram.