Navigating through the picture hierarchy

Important

When you set up navigational tools, the new picture should in most cases replace the current picture loaded in the main window. The operator should not have more than one main picture open at a time.

Here are some of the ways operators can move from one picture to another:

  • Each picture can have a Next Picture and Previous Picture defined for it. The operator can easily jump to those pictures using the forward and back arrows in the upper left corner of a picture created with the main template.
  • The Main field above the tools on the Toolbar shows the name of the current main picture. The button next to the Main field opens a History List. Simply click a picture in the list to go to that picture. The list can be predefined and locked to show only a select group of pictures or it can be set up to act as a "most recently used" list that is updated with each new jump.
  • The operator can use the Open button to select a picture to replace the current picture in the main window.

You can use buttons or other hotspots to link to new graphics. The hotspot can be a word, an icon, a section of a photograph, or whatever you want to use as a visual clue to the link's destination.

  • The Alarm List picture is available through a Toolbar button.

Clicking an alarm button in the Alarm Banner immediately replaces the current main picture with the primary control picture for the module indicated on the button and pops up the faceplate for that module.