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Confirm that graphics configuration is ready to be published

Before we publish DspPractice again (to deploy online the updates made in the previous section), we want to verify and test that our graphics configuration is ready to deploy.

This topic covers the following procedures:
  1. Verify the configuration contained within LytPractice and DspPractice.
  2. Test LytPractice and DspPractice in Quick Online View.

Verify your graphics configuration

The first step toward ensuring your graphics configurations are ready to be published is to verify their contained configuration. Verifying the contained configuration provides detailed information about each configuration problem. This information is shown in the Verification pane and is ranked according to their severity (information, warning, and error) and problem category (such as usability or scripting).

  1. Open the Verification pane, if it is not already open. (From the ribbon's View tab, click the Pane command and select Verification.)
  2. Select the LytPractice document tab.
  3. On the ribbon's Home tab, in the Graphics group, click Verify.
    In the Verification Results pane, the results should say No problems found.
  4. Select the DspPractice document tab.
  5. Click Verify.
  6. Note the verification results in the Verification pane.
  7. To view or fix an item's configuration issue, select the applicable row in the Verification pane and click the Open Item icon.
    The selected item opens as a document tab, with the configuration issue selected on the editing canvas and in the Graphics Configuration pane.

Test your graphics configuration online (prior to publishing)

In addition to verifying configurations before you publish, you can also see how your graphics configurations appear and behave online using the Quick Online View feature. Now we will our display using Quick Online View.

  1. Select the DspPractice document tab.
  2. On the ribbon's Review tab, click Quick Online View to add the display to the Manage Quick Online View list and launch Quick Online View.
    Note that the first item you add to Quick Online View opens the DeltaV Live Quick Online View instance. From that point on, each time you add a new item to the list, the Quick Online View instance receives the new content.
  3. Return to Graphics Studio.
  4. Select the LytPractice document tab.
  5. Add the layout to Quick Online View.
  6. Click the Manage Quick Online View drop-down arrow and note that both DspPractice and LytPractice are now in the list.
    The Manage Quick Online View lists all configurations that have been added to Quick Online View for all instances of Graphics Studio; all items on the list are available to be tested in Quick Online View.

    In Quick Online View, displays and layouts also reflect and test any standards and library functions referenced by these displays and layouts, as well as any GEMs contained by the displays.

  7. Return to the Quick Online View instance, which should already be open.
    1. Note the Refresh Configuration icon in the menu bar. The icon is currently indicating that the QOV instance has received new configuration (because we added the layout to QOV).
      In DeltaV Live, displays that have been previously opened by the operator during that workstation/session are not updated until the operator clicks the Refresh Configuration button. Likewise, if the layout assignment is changed in Workstation Management, the layout does get not updated until the operator manually refreshes. This manual refresh ensures that publishing does not interrupt an operator's normal workflow. When the Refresh Configuration button is clicked, all configuration, in all DeltaV Live instances on that workstation/session, receive the latest updates. Displays that have not been opened during that workstation/session fetch the latest configuration when they first open.
  8. Verify that your animations and data links are working correctly.
  9. Return to Graphics Studio.
  10. Make a change to DspPractice (such as adding another element or modifying an element property).
  11. Save the display.
  12. Return to the Quick Online View instance. (Do NOT click Quick Online View.)
    1. Note the Refresh Configuration icon in the menu bar. The icon currently indicates that the instance has not received any updates, which means it does not know about the changes made to DspPractice.
      When you modify a configuration that is already in Quick Online View, you must re-add it to make the changes available for testing.
  13. Return to Graphics Studio.
  14. Re-add DspPractice to Quick Online View (click Quick Online View again).
    Note that the Quick Online View icon greys out momentarily while the list is updating.
  15. Return to the Quick Online View instance.
  16. Note that the Refresh Configuration icon now indicates that changes are pending.
  17. Click the Refresh Configuration icon to update the display.
    Note

    If any other configurations in Quick Online View had pending changes, clicking the Refresh Configuration icon updates all of them.

  18. Exit Quick Online View.
    1. In the menu bar, click the Exit DeltaV Live icon and select Exit DeltaV Live.