The following lists the basic considerations to know when using Version
Control for DeltaV Operate.
- When VCAT for DeltaV
Operate is enabled or disabled, you must download the ProfessionalPLUS.
- All graphics files can only
be changed, deleted, and moved using DeltaV Operate. You can check the files in
and out of VCAT using DeltaV Explorer. Do not attempt to manage these files
from any other applications.
- After you have completed
your edits of a display file, to use it in your runtime environment you must
save and close the file, check the file into VCAT, download the
ProfessionalPLUS and all workstations where the operator graphic are used, then
switch DeltaV Operate to run mode.
- When changing Version
Control preferences, you must stop and re-start DeltaV Operate in configure
mode to re-initialize the application with the new preferences (for example,
enabling/disabling AutoCheckIn/Out). DeltaV Operate initializes all preferences
on startup only.
- When you rename a file in
DeltaV Operate (and Version Control is turned on), the change is not recognized
in other Operater Stations that have DeltaV Operate currently open. You must
restart DeltaV Operate in all the workstations to update the system tree. It is
the initialization process that populates the DeltaV Operate system tree.
- You must use DeltaV Explorer
to check the files in to VCAT unless Auto CheckIn/Out is enabled.
- When using Version Control
for DeltaV Operate, you cannot edit or create any graphics from a Remote
Operator Station.
- When disabling VCAT for
DeltaV Operate Displays, you must download the ProfessionalPLUS and all
workstations. This sends the new setting (of disabled) to all the workstations.
- When VCAT for DeltaV Operate
Displays is enabled, a copy of all the graphics files (.GRF, .PDS and .EVS)
plus other file types used by DeltaV Operate (such as .WAV, .TPL, .FXG, .TGD,
and others) are stored in the DeltaV configuration database. If VCAT for DeltaV
Operate Displays is subsequently disabled, these files remain in the database
as a copy that cannot be accessed but will make the database (and any export of
the full database) substantially larger than without the files.
- When importing an FHX file
that contains displays, you will see the displays listed in the import log even
if VCAT for displays is not enabled on the current database.
- The Auto Check-Out feature
only applies to the .GRF, .PDS and .EVS files. Any files that are not .GRF,
.PDS, and .EVS must be checked out (and in) manually from DeltaV Explorer.